Jenn and I were talking to each other when we were with Mommy

[conuly]

and we got into a bit of a debate.

Poll #27518 Raisins and mummies

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Which is correct?

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Raisins are grape mummies
40 (51.9%)

Mummies are human raisins
37 (48.1%)

Now, nobody needs to pop up here and enlighten us all on the difference between raisin production and mummy production. That is REALLY not the point of this conversation, and hence, not the point of this post! Just answer the poll.

Edit: Wow, somebody here answered really fast. I'm not naming names, but I pretty much blinked and - there it was!

Comments

[robby]

I don't believe Egyptian mummies were raisiny at the time of Pharoahs. Some cultures without good embalming did turn out poor product.

[glaurung]

Historically, mummies came long before grapes. Also, Mummification is a rather broad term, raisinification is a fate which only happens to grapes. Hence answer a.

[pauamma]

On the grounds more people consider either/both grapes and raisins food than they do humans and mummies.

[conuly]

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/the-gruesome-history-of-eating-corpses-as-medicine-82360284/

[pauamma]

That would be why I wrote "more" and "food". (ISTR ritual eating of the dead in PNG, but I don't know whether 0they 0were/are considered food.0)

[julian]

as a person who answered really fast: I was up. I read it, and decided that if I over-thought, I would never answer, so I just stabbed the poll button. (And then I went to bed.)

And in the cold light of day, I kind of disagree with myself, but that's OK.

[sabotabby]

But did the Victorians eat raisins?

[bibliofile]

gives a new shade to their habit of eating scones with sultanas in them, doesn't it

[sabotabby]

I knew I hated raisins for a reason.

[bitterlawngnome]

My friend's mum describes her chest as "a chalkboard with two raising tacked to it" so this is doing strange circles in my head.

[rebeccmeister]

This was a surprisingly difficult poll for me to answer!

[rebeccmeister]

I have an uncle who used to insist that raisins are wrinkled peanuts. I'm glad for that memory of him now.