I used to love raisins when I was a small child. But I remember the moment I started to hate them. I was happily eating them when all of the sudden it just tasted nasty. That’s it. No trauma, no negative association. Just like a light switch. Boom. Hated raisins.
Love it! I’ve never swallowed that whole “nature’s candy” crap. (Pun not intended, but it amused me, so I left it.)
I figure it started with some poor peasant who was trying to pass off really old & dry grapes as a treat. “You’ll eat that and like it. Back when I was your age, we ate dried out mud for dessert… and we were grateful to get it!!”
I hate raisins. Never liked them as a kid and haven’t acquired a taste for them since.
I also hate it when you get a cookie that you think has chocolate in it but instead has raisins. I always feel a bit of betrayal that a cookie, which looked delicious, was a carrier of raisins. Sort of like the Trojan horse of cookies.
In the most recent Bob’s Burger Halloween episode, the kids’ discussion of good candy had one declaring, “And no raisins!” to which her brother replied, “Yeah! No ‘old grapes’!”
While I’m trying not to take this personally (I mean, hey it coulda been some guy named Jeff who invented these nasty things we trick our kids into eating, but it wasn’t me), I had the same experience as that person above where I was happily munching away on them one day and all of a sudden I thought to myself, “what is this disgusting mouthful of glop I’m chewing on?” Now I can only handle them in oatmeal cookies, and only at about 2-3 per cookie… if the cookie is really big.
As a compulsive raisin-eater, I salute you!
Like “unnatural” candy, raisins can rot your teeth: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21876354
Poor Jeff, he’s probably seen http://www.cool2craft.com/faux-chocolate-thumb-tacks-by-candace-jedrowicz/
Myles, raisin’ the (chocolate) bar in Australia.
Compassionate bug in fourth panel really gets me going!
I love that first panel.
I used to love raisins when I was a small child. But I remember the moment I started to hate them. I was happily eating them when all of the sudden it just tasted nasty. That’s it. No trauma, no negative association. Just like a light switch. Boom. Hated raisins.
It is not the raisin’s fault.
We liked them as kids, so the grown ups foist ’em on us all the time – and we end up eating a lifetime’s worth of raisins before 2nd grade.
We’re a people suffering from raisin burnout. We need support groups and a walk-a-thon, stat.
I like raisins but they have to be mixed in with something, like oatmeal, or cookies, or oatmeal cookies. Hmm, maybe a little redundant.
I like raisins, but I DESPISE them when added to things like oatmeal and cookies.
My brother once fed me rotten grapes telling me they were ‘home made raisins’. I’ve been suspicious of them ever since.
Raisins are the way people ruin perfectly good oatmeal cookies and bran flakes.
A-men, brother. Raisins: Nature’s droppings
agreed!
Double agree!
When I saw the title, my first thought was Shatner screaming “GRAAAAAAAAAAAPES!!!!!!”
I’m such a geek…
Oh, Jeff yes…
There’s a fine line between a raisin and a prune… some raisins cross it. Yuck!
Prunes are dried plums. Raisins are dried grapes. It’s hard to cross that line.
My god this was brilliant. Solid gold Adam, well done!
This kinda slightly reminds me of a Garfield comic I saw where he originated raisins to dehydrated bowling balls.
Love it! I’ve never swallowed that whole “nature’s candy” crap. (Pun not intended, but it amused me, so I left it.)
I figure it started with some poor peasant who was trying to pass off really old & dry grapes as a treat. “You’ll eat that and like it. Back when I was your age, we ate dried out mud for dessert… and we were grateful to get it!!”
I think raisins were “invented” by people who never cleaned their refrigerators out.
I’ve read that raisins used to be the food of kings!
Anyway, I can’t decide if I like the first or the last panel the best. They’re both funny, but in very different ways.
Oi! I spent ages on that candy – if you don’t like them give ’em back.
Sorry, Mother…
I don’t get it!
Why does everyone hate raisins?!
My wife always turns her nose up at the “poor defenseless grapes that never had a chance!”
Me, I kinda like ’em.
And now they’re trying to sell us prunes as “dried plums”.
If prunes are “dried plums”, where the hell does prune juice come from? You never see any “raisin juice” on the market.
Pure Genius.
I hate raisins. Never liked them as a kid and haven’t acquired a taste for them since.
I also hate it when you get a cookie that you think has chocolate in it but instead has raisins. I always feel a bit of betrayal that a cookie, which looked delicious, was a carrier of raisins. Sort of like the Trojan horse of cookies.
I think it is a preservation technique used to keep fruits fresh before there was refrigeration, kind of like jerky is for meat.
But then they invented home canning and jelly.
In the most recent Bob’s Burger Halloween episode, the kids’ discussion of good candy had one declaring, “And no raisins!” to which her brother replied, “Yeah! No ‘old grapes’!”
While I’m trying not to take this personally (I mean, hey it coulda been some guy named Jeff who invented these nasty things we trick our kids into eating, but it wasn’t me), I had the same experience as that person above where I was happily munching away on them one day and all of a sudden I thought to myself, “what is this disgusting mouthful of glop I’m chewing on?” Now I can only handle them in oatmeal cookies, and only at about 2-3 per cookie… if the cookie is really big.
Hmmm, sorry about all the bold type. Using my phone and it got away from me somehow. Can’t edit comments, so…