baked beans and prunes
Tyler Hewitt
tahewitt at yahoo.com
Thu Nov 18 19:10:15 UTC 2004
Those sorts of image makeovers happen all the time.
Chilean sea bass (yummy) used to be known as
Patagonian toothfish (eeewww!).
Changing the name of something to make it more
palatable happens in other areas besides food. For
example, the phrase 'compassionate conservative'...
Tyler
>
> Speaking of name changes, has anyone noticed that
prunes are now
> "dried plums," at least in the U.S.? Why? Has
political correctness
> gone so far that we can't refer to a fruit as a
prune because the
word
> suggests wrinkles? Or is it because the
manufacturers think we're too
> ignorant to know what a prune is?
> Carol
Nah, it's just because the word "prune" connotes
"fruit you would
never dream of eating except that you need the fiber
to keep
'regular.'" It's merely an image makeover.
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