Society & Culture

A Prune by Any Other Name

Decoder Ring by Slate Podcasts

Feb 25, 202644:32Society & Culture

The delicious, healthful prune has long had a cross to bear: It’s best known for making people poop. In the late 1990s, the California Prune Board set out on a quixotic mission to amend this sales-flattening reputation....

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A Prune by Any Other Name is an episode from Decoder Ring by Slate Podcasts. The delicious, healthful prune has long had a cross to bear: It’s best known for making people poop. In the late 1990s, the California Prune Board set out on a qui...

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Published Feb 25, 2026, 44:32 long, audio available.

A Prune by Any Other Name

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