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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

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

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.

laxative

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

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)[reply]

For clarification, there are fresh "prunes" that are NOT dried WHATSOEVER, and are an oval less-sweet plum. These are just a different species of plum. I'll clarify the article.

Production a bit country specific

The section on production is very US specific, the section should be moved out to a new section (maybe Production in the USA?) -TempestSA —Preceding undated comment was added at 05:10, 18 September 2008 (UTC).[reply]

John Stewart & Steven Colbert

I was watching this [1] and wondered if their reference should be taken into the popular culture references. I'm not exactly how tho (i had to look up prunes in order to understand their act, since English is not my native language. ;-> ). It's just a thought anyway. burt777 - 2008-11-17