Contest entry -- does *what*?

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

I'm ... really not sure about the appropriateness of the phrase "pops out" in this specific context.



Even leaving aside the possible introduction of a missing "o".

Note that prunes had to be cooked for a solid hour to be rendered edible.  (Vitamin G is an old name for riboflavin.)

Good Housekeeping, November 1933.  "Helps regulate the body in a mild, natural way" is 1930s code for "makes you shit your tonsils out."

Comments

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

The pudding of warriors! Probably because when Ten Forward holds any sort of holiday festivities I imagine only Worf is brave enough to actually eat the prune pudding. Yes!

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

Yes.

[missdimple.livejournal.com]

And the NRA does its part in helping regulate the body in a mild, natural way, too? ;)

[kat-food.livejournal.com]

Yeah, what is up with the NRA logo?

[spuzzlightyear.livejournal.com]

The NRA was The National Recovery Administration, developed by Roosevelt to combat the Great Depression. Not to be confused, of course, by the present NRA.

I know all this because I see that logo in older school films I see :)

[shortsweetcynic.livejournal.com]

yes.

because "shit your tonsils out" is a fabulous turn of phrase and as a result i totally misread "7-day Bowl".

(edited because i can't word today.)

[write-light.livejournal.com]

I misread it too, several times.

[manatees.livejournal.com]

Yes. I like prunes and the pudding sounds tasty (sort of like Christmas pudding) but this is hilarious.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

Prunes for breakfast, lunch, and dinner for 7 days! I don't know about cheery, but that would solve the eternal problem of constipation. This is one of the few vintage recipes that I have seen that calls for whole wheat flour. They weren't shittin' about shittin'! Might want to throw in a cup of All Bran for good measure. Boiling for an entire hour seems a bit much. Simmering, maybe. Seems like all you would be left with is prune sludge.

More amusing than regrettable, but Yes anyway.

[thehappycat.livejournal.com]

Yes. Another entry in the never ending battle against constipation.

[bradygirl_12]

Yes!

Prunes and regularity for the win! ;)

[fallconsmate.livejournal.com]

prune pudding? i agree with you, that's a 7 day BOWEL!

prunes can be cooked for less than 5 minutes and be edible. (my grandmother would eat a few every morning, and i occasionally snitched one because i like them) i'm sure they cooked them that long to be mush to blend in with other ingredients.

and as long as you don't eat many of them, you don't shit your tonsils out, you just have normal easy bowel movements. much like taking metamusil or something of that nature.

edit for the yes.

[progbear.livejournal.com]

Yes! Blech! I was on board with the raisin pie, but this is beyond the pale!

[luke-russell.livejournal.com]

When I lived in San Jose the backyard of my house backed on to a prune farm (now long gone). I remember in the summer the farmer would come up to the sugar plum tree with a tractor that grabbed the trunk of the tree and shook it VIOLENTLY. All the plums fell and were then collected and put a wood pellets in the sun for a few weeks. He would fumigate them with a god-awful smelling smoke a couple times. And then off they went to market. A very strange product. Why wouldn't you just sell the plums?

[cactuswren.livejournal.com]

Same reason you sell raisins: they keep.

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

There are two main types of plums. The ones you're talking about, harvested with a shaker, sometimes called sugar plums, are also known as European plums or prune plums. They are oval in shape, and are mostly sold dried in the U.S., though they're sold fresh some here and more so in Europe. The other ones are known as Japanese plums (although their original source was actually China), and they are the round ones you see fresh in the grocery store. Those are harvested by hand. In terms of shipping, European plums are more delicate and perishable than Japanese plums. They're sold dried because that's what the demand is for. Besides that, the plums that are grown for drying come ripe and are harvested mostly in one big whack (instead of over several months as current Japanese plum varieties are bred to), and the market couldn't possibly absorb that many fresh at one time.

This comment brought to you by my years working at the California Tree Fruit Agreement, though there is a separate marketing order, the California Dried Plum Board, for the dried stuff.