I Take It Back

I take it all back. Dried cranberries are not the world's greatest dried fruit. Not even close. Dates are.

Holy crap, how have I gone this long without trying a dried date? Sure, I've had sticky date pudding plenty of times but not the fruit itself. It is like eating a piece of sticky date pudding... but without the pudding. It's so sweet but not overly so, it's soft and squishy, it has a mellow caramel flavour.

You know how people say fruits are nature's lollies (or is that just me)? It's all a lie. Fruits do not taste like lollies... except for dried dates.

Now I know why Muslim people break fast during Ramadan with a dried date. Because the thought of that delicious morsel is enough to sustain them through the whole day of fasting. Ingenious.

J