Think about it: anything that has raisins in it could have fit beans instead.
Oatmeal Raisin > Chocolate Chip.
Yep but oatmeal chocolate beats them all
But it’s better without the raisins…:
Nah…
I concur with this, and also submit apples/grapes in chicken salad should be considered culinary abuse.
What’s wrong with grapes in chicken salad :p adds some crunch
If this were another race and another food this would be downvoted to shit
I once stood and watch a workmate pour boiling water into a bowl of stuffing mix, stirred it, and then just ate it wet.
I don’t think it ever occurred to him that you’re supposed to cook it…
That’s basically the instructions to make it minus the butter.
Stuffing is like the only good place for raisins.
Your cultural horizon must be very small if you think it is something specific to white people.
Yeah but white people = ick
Duh 🤪
One year my mom put chopped up apples in the stuffing. My siblings loved it and I hated it. Fruit does not belong in stuffing.
You can make a stuffing with fruit work, but you need a separate recipe than just tossing apple into it. It makes a more sweet and savory dish instead of a hardcore savory one.
I’ve had apple and chicken sausage and I could see it working, but I’d saute the apples with the seasoning and onions so it’s not just a big hunk of apple all by itself.
When I make a turkey I put an apple and an onion inside for flavor, along with cinnamon and some sage.
(And, yes, that is Alton Brown’s recipe.)
True and I won’t apologise
To make it better.
Whatever dude, now I can’t stop thinking about Grandma’s cinnamon-raisin bread
Pretty sure African food uses it, too.
Come to think of it, what culture doesn’t use them?
Never ate Chinese food with raisins
Theres a traditional bread (bun?) in Chinese called Mantou which can come in a lot of varieties, one being whole grain with raisins
One of my favorite Chinese desserts uses them: https://kitchenmisadventures.com/sachima
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Alright, bear with me here.
Back in the middle ages Europeans didn’t have access to sugarcane. Because of that, they never even thought to try to breed sugary beets and process those into sugar. The same was true for tree sap or any other possible source of sugar, because why the hell would it even occur to them if they’d never seen sugar?
If a person in the middle ages wanted to make something sweet, their choices were to add honey or to add fruit. Honey was expensive, and the vast majority of the population of Europe were peasants. Honey wasn’t something they’d have around all the time. While fruit was way easier to come by, it was only available seasonally. So how do you make a sweet cake in the middle of winter? Dried fruit!
So here’s the big kicker about putting raisins in shit: it’s been unnecessary for four goddamned centuries. There might be an occasional dish here or there that’s been made the same way since before sugar was available, but there’s no fucking excuse for it in like 95% of dishes. We live in an age where I - a regular dude who isn’t particularly wealthy - can go to the grocery store a mile away and find a dozen kinds of produce that were shipped from the other side of the planet where they’re in season. There hasn’t been an excuse to ruin perfectly innocent cookies with raisins for hundreds of years.
There hasn’t been an excuse to ruin perfectly innocent cookies with raisins for hundreds of years.
Counterpoint: The Great Depression
Bruh raisins, especially ones a little sour are fire in rice
