To think dried fruit is shit and ruins everything.

[Sexnotgender]

Bought a delicious looking ginger and pear cupcake earlier.

Not a mention of the fact there were fucking raisins in it 😡 the little dried buggers just ruin delicious food.

Hot cross buns? Ruined.
Christmas pudding? Ruined.
Christmas cake? Ruined.

God I'd actually kill for an Eccles cake at the minute

Yabu - peel is the best of all, particularly in panettone.

i went out of my way to buy luxury dried fruit tonight to mix in with my plain greek yogurt. yummy.

much nicer than artificial sweetener or sugar.

In our family chocolate tended to be frowned upon by my parents when i was a kid. We were given fdried fruit or stewed fruit or jam and crumpets. fruit dried or otherwise was welcomed.

At a buffet once I chose some coleslaw, when I came to eat it, it had raisins in it 🤮

Agree completely op. Dried fruit is like dried lumps of skin, it's vile. Ruins everything it touches.

Totally agree OP, work of the devil.

And like a PP, I have a totally first world problem real issue that EVERY SODDING TIME we go to a NT/EH place, I can't have a cream tea as they only do scones with dried fruit.

Step away from the raisins folks

@AuntTwacky

Who wants a hot x bun with no raisins

Me!!

Amongst my favourites are dates stuffed with marzipan, chocolate covered raisins, a layer of rum soaked raisins at the bottom of a pot of chocolate mousse.

Urgh, imagine getting to the bottom of a delicious chocolate mousse to find some fucker has put raisins there🤢

I see what you mean, I think that it has to be done well and a lot of these things aren’t. (I don’t have a zero tolerance of dried fruit policy unlike op)

I don’t think dried fruit contrasts well with with something extremely sweet like a cupcake. the flavours have to work. I love alcohol soaked fruit in chocolate etc.

See I love a bit of dried fruit in baking. Specifically sultanas, especially properly soaked as per PP. Anyone who has a plain scone over a fruit one is a savage and needs to be sent to a scone correctional facility immediately.

However, I absolutely will not eat chocolate or yogurt covers raisins.

It's so so wrong

The point of dried fruit is to add sweetness to an otherwise non sweet entity e.g. a scone, a hot cross bun.

You do not "jazz" them up with bad sweet fake chocolate or sick sweet fake yogurt coating.

That's sweet on fake sweet and is minging.

Christmas pudding? Ruined.
Christmas cake? Ruined.

Well, you can't really make a fruit cake or Christmas pudding without fruit as that is the main ingredient!!!!

I like dried fruit but it belongs in sweet dishes, not savoury.

@HuffyPuffyStuffy

Christmas pudding? Ruined. Christmas cake? Ruined.

Well, you can't really make a fruit cake or Christmas pudding without fruit as that is the main ingredient!!!!

I like dried fruit but it belongs in sweet dishes, not savoury.

See that’s what I’d like. A lovely cake at Christmas that has all the spices and booze and deliciousness but without the wee dried fruit corpses.

A spicy apple cake would perhaps be better. Still full of fruit corpses but not dehydrated ones. Much juicier.

Send me your fruit cake, fruit scones and chocolate raisins and I will dispose of them safely for you. Dried peel can go though!

God you lot are so raisist.

I agree. They've no place even touching baked goods. I know I'm on the extreme end, but just the idea of biting into cake and coming into contact with a raisin puts my teeth on edge!

Probably comes from some good old British nostalgic bollocks about wartime cooking or something. Gross.

You could not be more correct, absolutely the work of the devil

I like raisins, sultanas, dried apricots, dates and dried figs but not in / with everything - there are limits

I don't like dried apple / banana / cranberries or currants

currants - ugh - all nasty little seeds & not enough fruit

I've a terrible weakness for anything with dried fruit and carbs - hot cross buns, date slice, raisin porridge, fruit bread, fig roll, garibaldi, Eccles cake etc.
In fact I have a bit of a migraine, think I'll head over to Tesco for some hot cross buns.
Honestly you can leave them for me.

I once bit into a sandwich at a fancy work networking event. Hummous and grated carrot......all good......except it turned out to also have raisins in.

What dirty bugger thought that was a good idea?

Dried fruit - delicious, dried peel on the other hand can be banished to hell

How dare you!!!

I love fruity cakes, buns and biscuits.

Couldn't agree more OP. You are 💯 correct lol x

The fruit soaks up a lot of the booze, so the mixture would be too wet bake properly.

I love my home made Christmas cake. Looking forward to making Welsh cakes for St David’s day too

I'm not a fan in savoury dishes, sultana curry etc, that is a different matter.

And that's before you consider the aesthetic issues (most dried fruit looks like spiders with the legs pulled off)

Not for nothing are Garibaldi called squashed fly biscuits