Secretly Incredibly Fascinating: Prunes

Alex Schmidt and Katie Goldin explore why prunes are secretly incredibly fascinating. Visit http://sifpod.fun/ for research sources, handy links, and this week's bonus episode.

LINKS FOR KATIE GOLDIN:

• Katie Goldin on Bluesky
• @ProBirdRights on Bluesky
• 'Creature Feature' podcast (iHeartRadio)
• When Is a Bird a ‘Birb’? An Extremely Important Guide (Audubon)

RESOURCES USED TO INFORM THE EPISODE'S LAND ACKNOWLEDGEMENT:

• native-land.ca
• U.S. Department Of Arts And Culture
• The True Native New Yorkers Can Never Truly Reclaim Their Homeland (Smithsonian)
• "Finding Lenapehoking" (YouTube / Hudson River Maritime Museum)
• Why Do They Call It Beacon? (The Highlands Current)
• Dutch & Native American Heritage In The Hudson River Valley (National Park Service)

RESEARCH SOURCES:

• The Chemistry of Plums & Prunes: Constipation & Chewing Gum ("Compound Interest" by Andy Brunning)
• U.K. politician issues prune-eating challenge (CBC News)
• Guardian Diary: "Europe's getting a bad press at the moment. But, regardless, our people are in Brussels, working hard for you. Such as Sir Graham Watson, MEP for the south-west of England, who was this week forced to challenge the idiocy of the European Food Safety Authority."
• Why Do Prunes Make You Poop? (Mental Floss)
• Constipation Relief: Can Prune Juice Make You Poop? (Cleveland Clinic)
• 4 Surprising Reasons You Should Eat More Prunes (AARP)
• Prunes can help bowel movement after all, says EFSA in about face (NutraIngredients.com)
• YouTube upload of the Ray Bradbury commercial for Sunsweet Prunes
• Stan Freberg, Madcap Adman and Satirist, Dies at 88 (The New York Times)
• Cooking: Recipe From The White House: Prune Pudding (The New York Times)
• B.W. Kilburn: The Prune Knight, California Building, Columbian Exposition (National Galleries of Scotland)
• Books Of The Times: NO PLACE OF GRACE. Antimodernism and the Transformation of American Culture 1880-1920. By Jackson Lears. (The New York Times)
• Unbuckling the history of the prune belt of Sonoma County (The Press Democrat)
• Preserve Smart: Drying Plums/Prunes (Colorado State University)
• Food Of The Week: Plum (Iowa State University Extension)
• Home and Garden Education Center: Plums (University Of Connecticut)
• Recalling Plums from the Wild (Arnold Arboretum, Harvard University)
• Green’s Dictionary of Slang entry for prune, noun
• Online Etymology Dictionary entry for prune, noun and prune, verb
• Oxford English Dictionary entries for prune, noun and prune, verb
• When the Dried Plum Lobby Tried to Make Pruneburgers Happen (Gastro Obscura)
• Where's the beef? Kids give prune burgers the taste test (Seattle Post-Intelligencer)
• The Secret to Juicy Burgers (California Prune Board)
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