25 minutes ago, Katie Meadow said:If I remember my tangled threads, there is a long one on eG about currants, dried currants, champaign grapes, etc. In my book raisins and dried currants are no way the same. Lots of dried grapes are reliably known as raisins, but not all are Sultanas, as far as I am aware.
That is true. (I remember that thread.) But sultanas are called sultanas whether they are dried or fresh. Same with currants. Grapes/raisins fit the plum/prune example. Craisins are just a marketing name, they are otherwise known as ... dried cranberries.
Edit: not really sure about sultanas and currants when they're not dried, now that I think about it. It actually is something new: one item (grapes, of different sorts) that get different names only when dried? Don't know.
