Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I recently was subjected to a raisin-chocolate-chip cookie that I didn't notice until too late. This shirt is truth.

joemail11 wrote:I recently was subjected to a raisin-chocolate-chip cookie that I didn't notice until too late. This shirt is truth.

This is 100% my father. Rasin cookies are the bane of his existence. Once, my mother made a full batch or two of chocolate chip cookies, and only three rasin cookies. Somehow, my father managed to get two of those three cookies instead of the chocolate chip cookie he wanted.

We still tease him to this day about it. If this prints, I'll make sure one of these shirts is ordered for him.

joemail11 wrote:I recently was subjected to a raisin-chocolate-chip cookie that I didn't notice until too late. This shirt is truth.

This shirt is indeed truth. The horrors I had to endure as a child with a father that put raisins in EVERYTHING!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

This one.

I know we're spoiled for choice this week, but this one is the one. Good luck Boots. ^_^

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

As a small child I used to pick the raisins out of my bowl of raisin bran (if no other cereal was available), and put them back in the box so my brother would be stuck eating them. If this wins I'm in for two. One for me, because raisins are awful, and one for him, because I am a terrible sibling

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

Very nice, but there's a typo... it should say "Raisins are awesome." Cuz they so are.

nevetnod wrote:Very nice, but there's a typo... it should say "Raisins are awesome." Cuz they so are.

Get out of here, Raisin-Lover. We don't take kindly to people like you 'round here. ;)

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

This must print.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

in college, they used to put raisin cookies right with the chocolate chip cookies, just to trick us. grr.

Josephus wrote:in college, they used to put raisin cookies right with the chocolate chip cookies, just to trick us. grr.

Such cruelty!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

In a show of solidarity to the Pro-Raisin community, I'm going to get a nice, delicious oatmeal raisin cookie from the bakery today. You only inspire us to fight harder for what we know is right!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

Heh, very nice. I actually like raisins on their own or in a trail mix combo with nuts or something, but I dont like them them in cookies, breads, rices and basically any cooked dish. Baffling! I guess I either don't like cooked raisins, or don't think they taste good combined with most other foods?;)

tgentry wrote:In a show of solidarity to the Pro-Raisin community, I'm going to get a nice, delicious oatmeal raisin cookie from the bakery today. You only inspire us to fight harder for what we know is right!

I hope you shrivel up and die (like that which you love so much)!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

Epic! The life memories, the cookies, the HUMANITY!!!

You raisin haters make this world a sad, bitter, hate-filled place. D:

On the plus side, more delicious Raisin Bran Crunch, raisin oatmeal cookies and bread pudding with lots and lots of raisins for me. :D

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I always want extra raisins in my raisin bran but once I tried raisins in my yogurt from my local froyo place... horrible idea. They quickly get hard as pebbles and ruin the entire experience!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I completely agree with this shirt!

tgentry wrote:In a show of solidarity to the Pro-Raisin community, I'm going to get a nice, delicious oatmeal raisin cookie from the bakery today. You only inspire us to fight harder for what we know is right!

I was unaware that you had no taste buds. There's no other possible explanation.

Raisins stink.

But this shirt rules. Nice job, Boots!

BootsBoots wrote:Get out of here, Raisin-Lover. We don't take kindly to people like you 'round here. ;)

Sounds like you're a Raisist.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

WANT. <-HATE RAISINS ffuuuuu! It's always super sadface time to snatch up a tasty looking cookie or bar and bite into it to find these hideous little boogers.

Also, Rat Fact #345: rat turds are commonly referred to as 'raisins'. :P

FB'd this for my ratty peeps. I think they will get a real kick out of it :D Good luck Boots!

joemail11 wrote:I recently was subjected to a raisin-chocolate-chip cookie that I didn't notice until too late. This shirt is truth.

Everyone knows raisins go in oatmeal cookies, not chocolate chip.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

My mom makes the best oatmeal raisin cookies that are ruined by...raisins.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

the absolute-ness of the statement is what cracks me up! I like raisin cookies but the shirt is so absurd I love it! gmv!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

This one made me laugh out loud because it IS so true... With one exception: Raisinettes -only because they're smothered in chocolate and I KNOW that they're there. It's when they catch me off guard that makes me cringe.

bassanimation wrote:

Also, Rat Fact #345: rat turds are commonly referred to as 'raisins'. :P

Reminds me of when I was a kid. I had a pet rabbit that wouldn't touch carrots, but for some reason *loved* to eat raisins. My mother felt inspired to come up with a little song: "Raisins in, raisins out."

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I had no idea I was not alone in this!

I often say to my friends that biting into a cookie only to discover there are raisins instead of chocolate chips is one of the most tragic things ever. I'm glad other people feel the same way!

+1

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I know this is being silly, but I look at all those crumbs and the two raisins sitting by themselves, and then I look at the teeny bite taken out of the cookie, and I think, "where did all those crumbs come from?" Unless it's meant to suggest someone took a bite & spit the whole thing back out, I guess... but even then it seems like too much material...

But it's a very funny shirt.

profbrendan wrote:I was unaware that you had no taste buds. There's no other possible explanation.

Raisins stink.

You are evil. That is the only possible explanation.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I like raisins. Yet I also like this shirt.
I feel very confused at the moment... Please, I need some time to myself...

saraseven wrote:My mom makes the best oatmeal raisin cookies that are ruined by...raisins.

Oatmeal cookies without raisins are like cereal without milk.

I had no idea I was a raisin activist until today.

I think I win for the worst raisin idea ever. While at university, I one day decided to combine all my favorite foods together in an omelet. So I made a cheese, peanut, granola, and raisin omelet. Bad idea!

I agree whole-heartedly with the sentiments, and the execution is, as always, oven-fresh, but I think the joke has already been done on a shirt at threadless:
http://www.threadless.com/product/964/Stupid_raisins_stay_out_of_my_cookies

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

Raisin lovers of the world unite and make it your mission to convert all the raisin haters into raisin worshipping, lovers of all things sun-pruned! (I'm still voting for the shirt. Don't tell anyone.)

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

The truest statement I have ever seen on a shirt. :D

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

screw raisins.

haxrox wrote:I agree whole-heartedly with the sentiments, and the execution is, as always, oven-fresh, but I think the joke has already been done on a shirt at threadless:
http://www.threadless.com/product/964/Stupid_raisins_stay_out_of_my_cookies

I don't think so, I think Bootsie's raisin hate is more broad than just cookies. Yeah her's has a cookie on it, but the cookie isn't the entirety of the joke.

I'm firmly anti-raisin, there is no food that isn't better WITHOUT the raisins!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I like raisins, but I know people who aren't open to raisin and would b buy this for them.

Come on people, grapes are fruit and raisins are just grapes. Mummified grapes, but grapes.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

Oh, I so hope this wins. My friend and I loath raisins. They can turn any perfectly good cookie or quick bread into and inedible pile of refuse.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I support this message. I will wear this shirt everywhere to spread the word.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

This will win, and my husband will be able to be a poor influence on my child's eating habits both verbally and visually.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

Worst raisin experience ever was finding raisins in the meatballs that went with the spaghetti. Blech. No. Just no. I still shudder just thinking about it.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

So many good shirts this derby, but this is the truth plain and simple. I don't think any food has been made better by the addition of raisins, only worse. Oatmeal cookies, good... oatmeal cookies with raisins, awful. Chocolate, awesome, chocolate with raisins, a disaster... could go on and on :/

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I don't mind raisins. What's much worse is biting into something and realizing it's been ruined by walnuts.

saraseven wrote:My mom makes the best oatmeal raisin cookies that are ruined by...raisins.

Try soaking the raisins in rum first. Yum.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

Hells-to-the-yes!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

The comments in this thread prove once again how highly intelligent the woot community is. Raisins are icky. Dried cherries, cranberries, apricots, anything but raisins are fine.

I have an awesome oatmeal cookie recipe made all the more awesome because I substitute chocolate chips for the raisins.

What the heck? How can people hate raisins so much? They're like tiny chewy candies!

That said, I do hate the raisin/chocolate chip mixup when it comes to cookies. When bakers get lazy and can't be bothered to use labels or even put cookies in different piles, hearts get broken.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I have raisin to believe this shirt will do extremely well this derby.

*rimshot*

AlexIAm wrote:The comments in this thread prove once again how highly intelligent the woot community is. Raisins are icky. Dried cherries, cranberries, apricots, anything but raisins are fine.

I have an awesome oatmeal cookie recipe made all the more awesome because I substitute chocolate chips for the raisins.

Oatmeal chocolate chip cookies are my favorite! You rule.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

One more gargleblaster! I laugh/barked so hard when I saw this that my dogs came running to see what was wrong! I LOVE this design! There are so many great ones this derby. This is awesome.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I'm the one in my family who hates being ambushed by raisins in perfectly good food. Thanks for taking a stand boots.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I like raisins.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

Dunno if I could wear this around, but it is so hilariously true!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I love it. Reminds me of this comic, which I find hilarious: http://files.sharenator.com/raisin_cookies_More_Rage_Comics-s640x850-68233-580.png

Belecthor wrote:I love it. Reminds me of this comic, which I find hilarious: http://files.sharenator.com/raisin_cookies_More_Rage_Comics-s640x850-68233-580.png

That's awesome!

Thanks everyone for the anti-raisin support. Those who are pro-raisin are such weirdos. You guys probably put ketchup on your eggs too. And you probably spell it "catsup." Weirdos! ;)

BootsBoots wrote:That's awesome!

Thanks everyone for the anti-raisin support. Those who are pro-raisin are such weirdos. You guys probably put ketchup on your eggs too. And you probably spell it "catsup." Weirdos! ;)

You speak the truth!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

Boots, I have to disagree about raisins. My grandmother use to make oatmeal raisin cookies that would make you slap yourself for the taste explosion that was going on in your mouth. True story, my sister and I would slap each other unconscious while eating them.....well, not that true of a story.

studio1172 wrote:Boots, I have to disagree about raisins. My grandmother use to make oatmeal raisin cookies that would make you slap yourself for the taste explosion that was going on in your mouth. True story, my sister and I would slap each other unconscious while eating them.....well, not that true of a story.

Your grandmother must be a witch.

BootsBoots wrote:That's awesome!

Thanks everyone for the anti-raisin support. Those who are pro-raisin are such weirdos. You guys probably put ketchup on your eggs too. And you probably spell it "catsup." Weirdos! ;)

Oh crap, I put ketchup on my eggs. Or sometimes hot sauce. Don't kick me out of the anti-raisin camp!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I'm not such a huge raisin fan, but it sounds to me like a lot of the people commenting have come to hate raisins simply because whoever's been making their baked goods doesn't have the sense to soak the raisins in a little hot water for 10 minutes before adding them to the recipe.

Nekkochan wrote:I'm not such a huge raisin fan, but it sounds to me like a lot of the people commenting have come to hate raisins simply because whoever's been making their baked goods doesn't have the sense to soak the raisins in a little hot water for 10 minutes before adding them to the recipe.

or rum

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

Allergies are the reason for my raisinist behavior.

In recipes, I replace raisins with dried cherries.

Mavyn wrote:Allergies are the reason for my raisinist behavior.

In recipes, I replace raisins with dried cherries.

oomph. my allergies are killing me last 2 days.

uniique wrote:oomph. my allergies are killing me last 2 days.

Seasonal allergies are bugging me too, but the raisin thing...well, that's a 'stop breathing' kind of reaction. So literally, killers!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

My father loved raisin cookies. As a kid I hated them because I'd see a freshly baked plate of cookies with dark spots and think I'd hit the chocolate chip cookie goldmine only to find out instead it was lead. So voted.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

so true. GMV. HATE RAISINS!!!

jmmbell1987 wrote:
I had no idea I was a raisin activist until today.

hahaha, same here.
awesome shirt, still.

jmmbell1987 wrote:Oatmeal cookies without raisins are like cereal without milk.

I had no idea I was a raisin activist until today.

I think that's the only way I can justify voting for and wearing this shirt, which I feel compelled to do.

The oatmeal raisin cookie is the king of cookies. It's the only thing that can redeem cinnamon. Wearing this shirt might be dishonest, but it galvanizes the opposing camps.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I actually like Raisins, that being said...awesome design! Upvoted!

Raisins are gross and I need this shirt.

I make my oatmeal cookies with dark chocolate chips and dried diced cherries.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

This shirt is all kinds of awesome. I've always tolerated raisins, but I finally feel free to express my deep disdain for those little buggers.

joemail11 wrote:I recently was subjected to a raisin-chocolate-chip cookie that I didn't notice until too late. This shirt is truth.

If someone offers me food suspected of having raisins in it the conversation kinda goes like this:

"There aren't any raisins in that are there?"

"Why? Are you allergic to raisins?"

"Yes, yes I am. Whenever I eat them they make me VOMIT!"


The raisin revolution will not be televised.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I feel so validated! I thought I was the only one that thought this. I love it!!!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

take from a chef. these words she speaks are true.raisin have been mucking up the world of pastries for too too long now. lets all take to the streets with fire and forks, kill all the raisins. kill emmmmm!!!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

I am so elated by all of this anti-raisin support. We're really taking back the cookies, aren't we? Yeah!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

Go boots! all my support! +1

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

Favorite in the whole derby! Still rooting for you, Boots! Down with the horrible turdlinger fruits!!!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

When this prints, it'll be my third royal blue, cookie-related, Woot shirt. And I'm fine with that.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

Has my vote!

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

Nice design, unambiguous message. Good luck.

However... has anyone else noticed that the people who don't seem to be able to tell the difference visually between a raisin cookie and a chocolate chip cookie are all raisin haters? I suggest their lowered mental skills in this area are due to the lack of raisins in their diet.

Discuss...

I require this shirt. REQUIRE.

Re: Raisins Ruin Everything

So how does this slogan promote the product?

moviewatcher wrote:Nice design, unambiguous message. Good luck.

However... has anyone else noticed that the people who don't seem to be able to tell the difference visually between a raisin cookie and a chocolate chip cookie are all raisin haters? I suggest their lowered mental skills in this area are due to the lack of raisins in their diet.

Discuss...

Many years ago I worked in an office that had a candy dish on the receptionist's desk. The dish was emptied several times a day by the employees, at which point it would be refilled with a random selection from many types of candy. One day I grabbed a handful of Skittles and dropped them into my shirt pocket, then went on about my day. Every few minutes I'd toss a Skittle into my mouth without thinking much about it. Eventually I hit one that was so foul that I almost spit it out in front of my coworkers. Turns out it was a stray M&M that was left in the dish from earlier in the day, and it was stealthily hiding amongst the Skittles. I actually like M&M's, but when you're expecting a Skittle and you get chocolate, it's revolting. (The totally wrong texture didn't help, either...instead of a waxy, hard-to-chew substance, the M&M cracked like an egg and flooded my mouth with creamy chocolate.)

Which brings me to my point: When you think you're putting one thing into your mouth and you get something else, it's a huge shock. You don't know what it is that you just ate, because your brain is focused on tasting one thing and then it gets something else. Yuck! And the more times you've expected chocolate and gotten raisins, the larger the aversion you would have to raisins. No wonder these people are protesting for raisins to be outlawed!

However, I do have to wonder why these raisin-haters can't distinguish the difference between a raisin and a chocolate chip. I may have been fooled by a stray M&M in a bowl of Skittles (though to be fair I never even really looked at what I was munching on), but I've never once been suckered into eating a raisin cookie thinking that it was a chocolate chip cookie; chocolate chips just do not look like raisins. Especially after having been burned countless times, apparently (as is evidenced by their rabid revulsion to raisin cookies), shouldn't some sort of self-preservation system in the brain kick in when they see a chocolate chip cookie? Shouldn't there be some intense scrutiny before they take a bite?

My theory is that these people are amongst the most extreme of chocoholics, and that their intense cacao addiction sends their brain into such a tizzy at the sight of a bespeckled cookie that it simply can't process any further visual input. While the rest of us can glance at the cookie and easily determine the not-so-secret ingredient, their sudden euphoria at scoring a fix prevents them from doing so. 0.3 seconds later, the cookie has entered their mouth...and what happens next isn't very pretty.

Of course, it's just a working theory; I haven't actually acquired the funding to conduct a double-blind study yet. Nor have I figured out how to lure this group of people into said study. I'm afraid that mentioning the word "raisin" would be a deal-breaker, and I'm worried about the ethics of not mentioning the word. I'm also quite worried about my safety.

In any case, here's hoping that this shirt will print so that these poor afflicted individuals can buy one. Perhaps seeing the slogan often enough will reprogram their synaptic responses just enough that they can avoid these unfortunate incidents. Or maybe the design will educate those around them of their plight, so that they might take pity and let them know that "hey, those are raisins." Of course, it might also lead to people putting out plates of raisin cookies in a twisted effort to get some great video for YouTube. After all, some people are just sociopaths.

MachineAmbition wrote:So how does this slogan promote the product?

I think that you either like raisins or you don't. "Raisins Ruin Everything" isn't going to change your mind, but it will sure get people talking about raisins. (Just look at this thread for proof.) There's no such thing as bad publicity, they say.

Would the Raisin Council (there must be one, right?) ever use this slogan? No...they don't have the guts. However, I think it would be a great slogan for that type of a product. Most people would laugh out loud when they saw it, and then they'd be thinking about raisins. Perhaps they could alternate it with a positive slogan in an advertising campaign, so you never knew which slogan they were going to use until the end of the commercial. I like it.

Alternatively, who says that this is the slogan for raisins? Maybe it's the slogan for chocolate chips! Of course, I'm sure that the Raisin Anti-Defamation Council would have some things to say about that.

cleverett wrote:Many years ago I worked in an office that had a candy dish on the receptionist's desk. The dish was emptied several times a day by the employees, at which point it would be refilled with a random selection from many types of candy. One day I grabbed a handful of Skittles and dropped them into my shirt pocket, then went on about my day. Every few minutes I'd toss a Skittle into my mouth without thinking much about it. Eventually I hit one that was so foul that I almost spit it out in front of my coworkers. Turns out it was a stray M&M that was left in the dish from earlier in the day, and it was stealthily hiding amongst the Skittles. I actually like M&M's, but when you're expecting a Skittle and you get chocolate, it's revolting. (The totally wrong texture didn't help, either...instead of a waxy, hard-to-chew substance, the M&M cracked like an egg and flooded my mouth with creamy chocolate.)

Which brings me to my point: When you think you're putting one thing into your mouth and you get something else, it's a huge shock. You don't know what it is that you just ate, because your brain is focused on tasting one thing and then it gets something else. Yuck! And the more times you've expected chocolate and gotten raisins, the larger the aversion you would have to raisins. No wonder these people are protesting for raisins to be outlawed!

However, I do have to wonder why these raisin-haters can't distinguish the difference between a raisin and a chocolate chip. I may have been fooled by a stray M&M in a bowl of Skittles (though to be fair I never even really looked at what I was munching on), but I've never once been suckered into eating a raisin cookie thinking that it was a chocolate chip cookie; chocolate chips just do not look like raisins. Especially after having been burned countless times, apparently (as is evidenced by their rabid revulsion to raisin cookies), shouldn't some sort of self-preservation system in the brain kick in when they see a chocolate chip cookie? Shouldn't there be some intense scrutiny before they take a bite?

My theory is that these people are amongst the most extreme of chocoholics, and that their intense cacao addiction sends their brain into such a tizzy at the sight of a bespeckled cookie that it simply can't process any further visual input. While the rest of us can glance at the cookie and easily determine the not-so-secret ingredient, their sudden euphoria at scoring a fix prevents them from doing so. 0.3 seconds later, the cookie has entered their mouth...and what happens next isn't very pretty.

Of course, it's just a working theory; I haven't actually acquired the funding to conduct a double-blind study yet. Nor have I figured out how to lure this group of people into said study. I'm afraid that mentioning the word "raisin" would be a deal-breaker, and I'm worried about the ethics of not mentioning the word. I'm also quite worried about my safety.

In any case, here's hoping that this shirt will print so that these poor afflicted individuals can buy one. Perhaps seeing the slogan often enough will reprogram their synaptic responses just enough that they can avoid these unfortunate incidents. Or maybe the design will educate those around them of their plight, so that they might take pity and let them know that "hey, those are raisins." Of course, it might also lead to people putting out plates of raisin cookies in a twisted effort to get some great video for YouTube. After all, some people are just sociopaths.

OH NO! You poor thing, having your mouth unexpectedly flooded with creamy chocolate. I can only imagine the horror you have experienced.

I must say that I disagree with your making these people out as suffering from disease. That kind of philosophy runs rampant through our society and the next thing you know, there is a "Chocolate Avoidance and Compassion Act" (CACA) being pushed transparently through Congress behind closed doors, providing $50 billion in inefficient government programs at all of our expense.

Those unable to differentiate between raisins and chocolate need to take responsibility for their own actions and not act like victims of some "disease". And please, do we really need a federally funded study of "why" they can't make this distinction? I think not.