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Why do people hate raisins? They’re chewy little sugar bombs. What’s not to like?

To the American palate natural sugars taste like sour lemons. The rest of the world goes crazy for sultanas or raisins in things because they are such a sweet little surprise. To Americans raised on a steady diet of factory brewed high fructose corn syrup, they seem to offend and overwhelm their senses.

I hear so much raisin hate on American podcasts etc. I’ll never understand it.

You’re not far wrong, but the corollary is it’s really hard to avoid unless you’re fairly nutrition aware. After moving away I lost several kilo in a year by accident. Eating normal food and living someplace walkable does a lot.

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Even the pastry in the meme is a “pain au raisin” which they’ve just put… icing sugar on top of 🤢

Lol that’s absurd hahaha People have different palletes and culture and socioeconomic history. To just slash out us little Americans for a quick jab is ignorant at best. Everyone loves fruit in America. Everyone on earth loves fruit. Put that pet theory to rest.

For what it’s worth, I love raisins in bread, cereal, salads and cookie and I’m American as they come.

I’m from Europe and I don’t like raisins. 🤷‍♂️

They look and feel like I’m eating little roaches embedded in my food.

That just makes them better! Like when you eat lo mein and get to pretend the pieces of cabbage are little grubs. It’s the best part!

They taste like stale air, in my opinion.

I love raisins by themselves, or sometimes in food like Tagine

Raisins in baking are almost always a disappointment

Exactly. I love raisins in trail mix, but any cooked or baked raisins are disgusting little bugs that pop in your mouth when you bite down on them and omg it makes me wanna hurl just thinking about it

They’re fine as long as they’re inside the baked good. Won’t get roasted too much there.
Those burnt one on the surface are terrible.

Someone who cannot appreciate the joy of a Fly Cemetery Biscuit smh

Same this comic does not resonate

I have found my kin.

Someone gave out little boxes of raisins on Halloween. I poured them into my mouth. They had worms in them. To this day I’m suspicious of raisins.

Nah your previous piece of candy had a powerful hallucinogen in it.

Damn it, man! I just bought a big pack of those little boxes of raisins for my toddler yesterday. Now I’m gonna remember this and instinctively check the damn box before I give them to her. Thanks a lot!!

Well I hope you do! Just pour the raisins into your palm, see that they’re fine, put them back in the little box for the kid to pinch out one at a time. Meanwhile, put all the little boxes in a ziplock bag to keep pantry moths out. If you want to be extra sure, I think if you froze them for a day or two you’d probably kill anything that was already in there.

I like the golden raisins, take them when I hike and camp usually.

Raisins are fine until you eat a cookie expecting chocolate chips and get a raisins instead.

Chocolate chips are fine until you eat a cookie expecting raisins and get chocolate chips instead.

Yeah, oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are trash.

Except I don’t want to live my life expecting raisins in my cookies.

I love raisins on their own. And in raisin brand for some reason. But I strongly dislike their texture in baked goods such as cinnamon buns or cookies.

For me it’s the texture that causes issues. I love grapes, but dry them out and suddenly they make me nauseous.

They taste like nothing to me. Feels like I’m chewing used gum or something.

Raisers are fine on their own but I don’t want that change in consistency when I’m eating cinnamon rolls, cookies, whatever. Also expectations are big, have you ever taken a sip of a drink that is different than what you thought? Usually not a pleasant experience

This consistency difference is why raisins are great in a chewy oatmeal cookie, but not so much in a crunchy or soft butter cookie.

Not my jam but I ain’t mad if that’s what you like, just warn folks before they dive in right?

I could ask for a “some may not like this” disclaimer with your chewy chocolate cookies too, by that logic.

Raisins in cinnamon rolls are delicious!

I don’t think I’ve ever had cinnamon rolls without them

I have a hypothesis that all the raisin haters out there are super chocolate lovers. And they are just mad that it’s raisins and not chocolate. I’m not saying all chocolate lovers are raisin haters, but that all raisin haters are chocolate lovers.

Last I checked raisins aren’t harvested with slave labor and deforestation, learn to enjoy raisins they are amazing

I feel like raisins are always in the wrong place, and for everyone this place is different. But when they are in the wrong place, you immediately notice and and go “WHYYY”. Hence raisins bad. Also chocolate sucks.

One of my absolute favourite candy that’s common in Germany is raisins in chocolate:

This one even says “Jeden Tag” (“every day”) on the packing!

That shit slaps. My dad ate them at the lawn at a lake laying at a towel. He ate one that fell down. It was a rabbit poop 💀

Heck yes. Those are amazing. It’s been forever since I’ve seen them.

Nah, I really dislike raisins and, despite liking chocolate, I am not a super chocolate lover.

Not much of a sweet tooth at all.

I do love fruits though, but am not a huge fan of dried fruit which is what raisins are.

While I certainly do like chocolate chip cookies, where cinnamon buns are concerned, I don’t want to replace the raisins with anything. I’ll pick them out and eat just the cinnamon bun. So it’s definitely the raisins, with their unquenchable evil.

I can add my sample size of one to your research. I don’t mind raisins but I love chocolate. Chocolate covered raisins are acceptable, for instance. The disappointment is what really leaves a sour taste in my mouth.

To add my sample to your research, I absolutely love both chocolate and raisins…

I honestly am not sure that there is a more perfect confection than chocolate covered raisins, not even kidding.

I hate everything about raisins. I hate the consistency. I hate the taste. Raisins can fuck right off.

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