On 2014-04-27 10:26 AM, graham wrote:
> On 27/04/2014 6:15 AM, James Silverton wrote:
>> I have been buying raisins from Trader Joe's lately for use on my
>> breakfast cereal. Unlike other supermarkets, there seem to be three main
>> types: large black raisins, small black raisins and small yellow
>> raisins. The large raisins have a different taste than the small ones
>> and I much prefer the small ones at breakfast. The yellow raisins have
>> much lees taste and I am going to stick with the small black raisins.
>> For enlightenment of British readers, the yellow raisins used to be
>> called Sultanas when I was a kid in Britain.
>>
> I'm sure I saw packets of "Sultana raisins" in Calgary some (many) years
> ago.


Those different types of raisins are due to them being the dried form of
different varieties of grapes.


I remember that there used to be a type of raisin cookie. We used to
call them squashed fly wafer. The came in a package with rectangular
sheets with crimped or perforated lines to snap them off into smaller
pieces. I have not bought cookies in years and don't even look to see
what is available, so I don't know if they are still available or not.