[Sca-cooks] Meat preservation

[Ted Eisenstein]

>	  It's funny how companies have caught on to this dislike of the
>word "prune".  I now see prunes in the grocery store marketed as "dried
>plums".  Evidently they sell much better that way.  The word prune does
>conjure up visions of constipated elderly persons.

Ah, but to some of us who watch way too much sci-fi on TV, prune juice
is a warrior's drink.

(You know, I wonder about that. How much _did_ prune juice sales go up
after Worf started drinking the stuff?)

Alban