Source:  Ruben Navarrette, Jr. WASHINGTON POST, 7/13/11


When I was in college, my roommate from New York City - aware that I had grown up in the farmlands of Central California - asked me a simple question: "What time of year do workers pick the raisins?"
After I stopped laughing, I had to explain to the city slicker that you don't actually pick raisins. You pick grapes, and then lay them out in the sun to make raisins.

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