Dried Plums (a.k.a. Prunes)
Everyone knows what prunes are for, and why your grandparents eat them, begrudgingly or not. Which is why the California Prune Board asked and, in 2000, received permission from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to start calling them "dried plums" instead (after which it changed its own name to the California Dried Plum Board, and started littering its materials, ads, and statements with the words dried plums). It's accurate like calling raisins "dried grapes," and it drops the bathroom connotation. Whatever you call them (we still think of them as prunes), they're loaded with vitamins and really do make a great healthy snack or a delicious addition to ordinarily savory dishes. Or, are we just saying that because the California Prune Dried Plum Board is successfully marketing plums as a superfood?