Talk:Prune

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Can anyone post a photo of a prune? Names of fruits and vegetables are difficult or impossible to understand for non-native speakers based only on description. Descriptions can be very confusing, whereas a picture can lay away any doubt.

• I added a photo, it's not very good but it's better than nothing. -Merzperson

[edit] Prunes vs. plums

The article claims that a prune is not the same as a dried plum. Are we sure about this? This contradicts, for instance, Merriam-Webster (m-w.com).

Well I usually consider dried plum to be the chinese dried plum which is much drier to the form that is often refered to as a prune. However, I supose dried plum would be a larger catagory and also include prunes. I left a link to Aji ichiban which sells various flavours of chinese dried plums. The link below is ginsing.

http://ajiichiban-usa.com/Merchant2/merchant.mv?Screen=PROD&Store_Code=A&Product_Code=DF4111-L01A

[edit] Send to BJAODN?

Camp Song: The Prune Song

Ohhhhh...No matter how young a prune may be, he's always getting wrinkles. A baby prune is like his dad, but he's not wrinkled quite so bad. We have wrinkles on our face, A prune has wrinkles every place. Ohhhh...No matter how young a prune may be, he's always getting wrinkles.

(Hand motions -- swing arms during the song. Point to your face at "we have wrinkles every place". Use hands to squish your face into the shape of a prune and in a high pitch squeal sing "prunes have wrinkles every place".

-Submitted by Jay Fink

Retrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prune"

This was on the page, and seems to be silly enough to be sent to Bad jokes and other deleted nonsense.

[edit] laxative

Why do prunes have laxative qualities? Chris 04:07, 18 January 2007 (UTC)

this makes no sense to me for several reasons? 1. How can a plumb dried to become a prune be juiced? Doesn't drying take away all juices from the fruit? 2. How can a prune ever be "fresh" when it is a dried plumb? Things that are dried aren't really fresh. 3. How can a dried plumb (prune) ever reach the market before a fresh plumb, when chronologically, a fresh plumb precedes the prune? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 71.232.21.226 (talk • contribs) January 17, 2007.

I believe that prune juice is really plum juice, but people don't tend think of prunes as dried plums. People have a strong association with prunes and their laxative properties, so it gets marketed as prune juice rather than plum juice. But you could juice a prune, they aren't completely dry. Freshness is relative - a prune isn't a fresh plum, but some prunes are fresher than others. It would be good if this article mentioned how a prune can get to the market sooner than a plum. Perhaps the plums that are used for prunes are a different type than those that are eaten fresh, and get to the market faster.--RLent (talk) 16:46, 24 April 2008 (UTC)