On 4/27/2014 9:35 AM, Dave Smith wrote:
> 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.
>
>
We had them here. Made by Sunshine Biscuit Company. I have not seen
them in many years but there were among my favorites as a child.

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