To declare dried fruit as one of the most disgusting things in existence?

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Notable exceptions being dried bananas and dried apples, as they taste like sweets. And dried tomatoes because they are only honorary fruit.

Top offenders being dried apricots and the mysterious brown lump that made it into my granola this morning that was overly sweet and had the texture of gritty playdoh.

Who decided that leaving something out for so long that it shrivelled up into a twisted carcass of itself was somehow an improvement? And why the fuck do they keep hiding them in perfectly good breakfast cereals??

I have found my people! I've had a phobia of dried fruit since childhood. I don't even want to look at it, and definitely couldn't touch it! Weird dry wrinkly stuff.

So the offender was a fig. Bleurghhhh.

I also have an aversion to dried fruit that is bordering on a phobia.

Raisins, currants and sultanas are the worst. I can barely cope with touching one, let alone eating one.

They are wrong and evil on several levels.

They are basically the mummified corpses of fruit.

Which also happen to look like the bodies of spiders with the legs pulled off.

I feel quite strongly about this.

TheSecondOfHerName whatever you do, do not have a dried fig. Imagine the corpse of a spider with obesity issues.

YANBU I hate dried fruit, it ruins so many things!

Christmas cake, Christmas pudding, wedding cake... why!

It’s the sneaky ones I hate too, oooh I’ll have a scone they look lovely, nope, all the fuckers are laced with little nubs of disgustingness.

Dried fruit is just fruit with the water taken out. So nutritionally the same as fruit. There's the same amount of sugar in a grape as in a sultana.

@meredintofpandiculation yes, but for you can eat loads more dried fruit than you can "real fruit" and not feel as full. Dried fruit is incredibly energy dense so it is much easier to eat all that sugar and calories.

I love dried mango - but only one brand. That's about it

TheSecondOfHerName whatever you do, do not have a dried fig. Imagine the corpse of a spider with obesity issues. Better still - google the role of the fig wasp in pollination of figs

fluffywuffy100 you're talking to someone who can eat a whole lb of fresh apricots at a sitting. Actually, I don't find "real fruit" more filling than dried fruit - I wouldn't eat more than 2-3 dried figs at a time, and I'd very happily eat 2-3 fresh figs (and I think the dried figs would fill me up more because of the chewiness)

The only time I overdose on dried fruit is with Christmas cake, mince pies and Christmas pudding, and in those cases there's probably more harm being done with the almond icing and royal icing and the brandy butter.

Mince pies, hot cross buns all the things that look lovely RUINED by dried little shits.

Just to freak you all out I made a salad dressing last night that had raisins soaked and chopped into it. Was yummy.

Most dried fruit is sweetened, so concentrated sugars from the fruit plus more sugar. As much as sweets on some cases

I love dried friut - I used to say I could live on just grapes (Grapes/raisins and wine...)

There's the same amount of sugar in a grape as in a sultana. - yes but the raisin will stick to your teeth in a way that grapes don't. That's why my dentist advised not eating them all day

Dried fruits are highly nutritious high in fibre and micro nutrients. They do have a high sugar content but in small amounts are still good for you.

Not a fan. Our dentist told us not to give DC dried fruit owing to v high sugar content and it sticks to teeth.

I love dried fruit - I put dried cranberries in my coleslaw.

Tell you what OP, I'll swap your dried fruit for the disgusting thing called a Haggis that is sitting in my freezer.

A lot of dried fruit is preserved with a sulphur-based thingy and tends to give me the most rank flatulence. Which I actually quite enjoy in a "hey world, I'm here!" sort of way.

My 14yo is currently making hot cross buns. Have just noticed she forgot the sultanas...and apparently couldn't be bothered with the lemon zest. God knows what else she's left out. They do look good though!

My morning rolled oats ad flaxseed wouldn't taste nice without my dried dates and you can make a delicious syrup with dried dates as well!

YANBU. At all.
Despise the fucking stuff with a passion. Drives me round the bend that you only seem to be able to get 'fruit' scones with a cream tea when out.
Here's a lush, soft scone, an inch of cream, strawberry/raspberry jam and... devil's goat droppings

With you 100% OP.

My DM keeps buying biscuits with dried cranberry in and putting them in the same tin as the chocolate chip ones - it's like playing bloody Russian Roulette!

I got an enormous bag of dried figs from Costco and cannot stop eating them.

I predict you will come to regret that.

Other than fruit peel (bleurgh, yuck, belongs in the bin), I love all dried fruit. I don't eat it often, because of the aforementioned flatulence issues, and the energy density per weight. I can eat a whole bag of dried apricots (and regret it quite badly later, though not as much as anyone else in the vicinity), but would stop after maybe five or six fresh apricots.

I'm guessing your gritty brown playdough was a bit of dried fig? They do have a mighty gritty thing going on.