AIBU to think prune haters should be banned?

[prunesprunesprunes]

Seriously, they're dried plums.

I'm not eating them to show my superiority over your lunch choices. I'm not eating them as a health kick. I'm not eating them to get over constipation.

I'm eating them because they're SWEET AS FUCK and absolutely delicious.

Why is the world so full of sniggering prune hate? Have any of these people ever actually eaten them? They're just dried plums FFS!!

I suppose if you want a serious AIBU... AIBU to get so unbearably annoyed because when I'm eating dried fruit or ordering a meal without meat in a restaurant, other people often feel the need to make comments or enquiries as to why I'm on a health food kick, or vegetarian (I'm neither)? Why do people get so bloody defensive and interrogative over a sodding raisin?

I have never eaten a prune

Should I?

Dates I love. Prunes I dont think I have ever eaten. Figs I used to love until I read abiut the wasp and it put me right off if them.

I love a good prune!!

I used to eat tons when I was little - sat on Microsoft 3.0 playing with Paint and Solitaire whilst I nibbled away.

I'm thinking about getting them again 🤔🤔 tell me they're still as good as I remember? 😂

Prunes are what happens when you have parents who ban proper sweets.

Prunes are lovely. What more can I say? If you're tempted - go on, do it!

But be prepared for the Prune Inquisition.

yes @userschmoozer, because the massive amount of sugar in a prune isn't 'proper' sugar, is it? It's not really sweet sugar... hang on, haven't I heard this somewhere before...

cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/8923-wine-stewed-prunes-and-mascarpone

Very popular in France

Ooh prunes , figs , apricots all concentrated sweetness .

I love dried fruit.

I fact I have some figs .........that’s me gone to eat them .....

mmmm, prunes, apricots, figs, dates yum.

but erm, the poster who said they had competitions as to who could eat the most at school?
I hope you had good toilets....

YANBU, prunes are lovely. Like you say though, OP, they are ridiculously sweet. I avoid them because they are so sugary (and it doesn't take much to send me on a sugar-guzzling rampage), but they are definitely yum.

The soft ones that come in the resealable foil packs are very moreish.
No need for the resealable pack tbh.

I was today years old when I found out prunes were dried plums.
I thought they were a fruit in their own right!

I like them although there was an incident on holiday once - said to DH that i'm not sure what sort of juice this is but it's so lovely i'm on my third (big) glass. It was at this point he said he'd keep downwind as it was prune juice

I've never had them dried either, just like out of a tin.

I love dried apricots tho and have a very unfunny story about eating a whole pack and then going for a dog walk. Thank fuck there was a mcd's nearby!!!

Also love a date too.