Pretty sure African food uses it, too.
Come to think of it, what culture doesn’t use them?
Never ate Chinese food with raisins
One of my favorite Chinese desserts uses them: https://kitchenmisadventures.com/sachima
Theres a traditional bread (bun?) in Chinese called Mantou which can come in a lot of varieties, one being whole grain with raisins
Sealand
I am not like the other white people.
Seriously! The only reason oatmeal cookies get a bad rap is because of the fucking raisins!
Oatmeal chocolate chip, when you can find them, are awesome.
Raisins suck
Haha racism good when we play the reverse uno card, definitely nothing wrong with that…
How do you expect to convince white racists that racism is bad if you upvote things that are racist towards them?
What?
racism /rā′sĭz″əm/
noun
- The belief that race accounts for differences in human character or ability and that a particular race is superior to others.
- Discrimination or prejudice based on race.
- The belief that each race has distinct and intrinsic attributes.
I know it’s just a dumb meme but how do you think racism starts? My experience is it tends to begin as “just a joke” until it’s normalised enough that someone feels comfortable enough to take off the mask and either encourage or perform discrimination and/or violence.
Why tolerate white racism when we don’t tolerate any other kinds?
I see how it could somewhat fit the third definition if you craned your neck but I don’t really think it applies.
(I’ll see if I’m able to expand on it later)
Think about it: anything that has raisins in it could have fit beans instead.
If this were another race and another food this would be downvoted to shit
You’re free to test your hypothesis.
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“it’s ok to punch some people, but not others” 🤡
Oatmeal Raisin > Chocolate Chip.
Yep but oatmeal chocolate beats them all
But it’s better without the raisins…:
Nah…
Trolling used to mean something.
bait used to be false
Bruh raisins, especially ones a little sour are fire in rice
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
It’s like “New Chicken Salad! Now with juicy blisters!”
Best case scenario it doesn’t make it worse, but it defo doesn’t make it any better.
In my opinion… On the internet…
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.
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
Also your explanation doesn’t cover why those recipes now include a diabetes inducing amount of sugar on top of the dried fruits
That’s a separate issue that we (meaning humanity, not just America) is still dealing with.
During the second world war chemists figured out how to make cheap fertilizers and pesticides from petroleum. These two innovations shot farm productivity through the roof. Food became more abundant than ever before and therefore became incredibly cheap. Virtually overnight the biggest challenge to people’s diets was having too much, not too little.
For the first generation or two living in this historic abundance, they had no way of seeing the coming health threats. Coming off of literally the entire history of life on this planet having too little to eat instead of too much, they weren’t with a “more is more” approach. Cost of ingredients was no longer a barrier to adding more sugar, more salt, and more fat. At least in the US, there was a brief “convenience” fad in cuisine in the 11950s, but gears quickly shifted to increasing portion size and improving taste by the brute force addition of more salt and sugar.
Your cultural horizon must be very small if you think it is something specific to white people.
Yeah but white people = ick
Duh 🤪
First thing it made me think of was a trip to Morocco
Second thing it made me think of was how stupidly difficult it was to get a glass of wine there
Never going back
Stuffing is like the only good place for raisins.
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.
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.)
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.
