If prunes are dried plums, how do you get prune juice?

[Humble Master]

For some reason this popped into my head, and through the magic of modern technology I did not have to wonder for very long.

Via Wikipedia:

"Prune juice is made by softening prunes through steaming and then putting them through a pulper to create a watery puree."

[C is for]

Yum.

[Dragon Lady]

I think a more appropriate question (though that was a good one) is why don't we have plum juice? Why go through the effort of drying a fruit, then rehydrating it for juice? Why not just juice the juicy fruit to begin with?

[Damasta]

PlumSmart.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

Did you know that off the top of your head, or did you Google it?

Please, tell me it was the latter.

[Damasta]

You win. It was the latter.

[Giovanni Schwartz]

Thank Goodness.

[Wisteria]

My grandparents always insisted that the smaller, rounder plums (Prunus americana) were true plums and that the oblong, dark purple plums (Prunus domesticus) were actually called prunes. They are the only people I've met who have made that assertion, though . . .

[FauxRaiden]

Of olive oil comes from squeezed olives, and corn oil comes from squeezed corn, where does baby oil come from?

[ahem.]

If motor oil is used for motors, and cooking oil is used for cooking, what is corn oil for?

Well, according to Wikipedia, its main use is in cooking, where its high smoke point makes refined corn oil a valuable frying oil. It is also a key ingredient in some margarines. Corn oil is also a feedstock used for biodiesel. Other industrial uses for corn oil include soap, salve, paint, rustproofing for metal surfaces, inks, textiles, nitroglycerin, and insecticides. It is sometimes used as a carrier for drug molecules in pharmaceutical preparations.

So. Good times.