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[Sarah Kehler Ewing <skkewing@yahoo.com>]

I'm a little afraid (lol) to wade into this discussion, but here is my two 
cents worth: I spent some time growing up in a fruit growing area of Southern 
British Columbia and working in a fruit stand during the summers.  We called 
all long oval-shaped dark blue-purple stone fruits 'Prune Plums' when they 
were fresh and 'prunes' when they were dry while the all other plums were 
called by their varietal names: 'Greengage', 'Peach plum', etc.

Sarah
now an adult in a dismal zone 3b near Edmonton, Alberta


--- On Tue, 9/23/08, Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com> wrote:

> From: Alan Haigh <alandhaigh@gmail.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] prune def
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Date: Tuesday, September 23, 2008, 1:36 AM
> Stephen, and a good researcher you are.  When I tried
> googling for
> information about prunes I learned that 70% of the entire
> worlds crop of
> prunes (dried plums) come from a relatively small area not
> far from you.
> I'm guessing this has to mean the vast majority of the
> crop is dried, though
> I couldn't confirm it, so why wouldn't they just
> refer them all as prunes?
> 
> The USDA consistently refers to prunes as "prunes
> (dried plums)"- just like
> that, with the parenthesis.  UC Davis is also absolutely
> consistent in the
> fact sheets I found in this definition.  My computer is a
> dinosaur so it
> would probably take me a lot of time to find the word used
> as you do but I
> found hundreds of instances where the definition of a prune
> is a dried
> plum.  I'm guessing that your region is unusual in the
> prune as fresh
> plum usage but considering how many prunes are grown there
> they're certainly
> entitled to call them anything they want.
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