Ha! I don't think "we can all agree" on that at all ;) I love raisins raw, on granola, or in any chewy cookies. Once they get re-plumped and mushy, it's a whole other story. I *hate* the mushy texture, so tarts and savoury dishes are a no-go for me.

Love them in savory dishes. I don't eat sweets for breakfast, so I don't like them in oatmeal or anything like that. They are OK in banana bread though.

Love them in everything.

Hate them here, hate them there: hate them everywhere.

I also enjoy them only when they're still dry. But add them to cakes or savory dishes where they get a chance to plump up and the texture makes me squirm.

Love 'em. I find almost any dried fruit that is still soft and a little jammy appealing.

But I know how it is for some people...I made some Irish Tea Brack last week, I had an extra mini-loaf to give away and boy, it was a hard sell! (Though it was good slathered with some Kerrygold butter or paired with a sharp cheese.)

How can you hate raisins? I love them anywhere, savory or sweet, dry or plump!

I only like them dry. When they're hot and plump...ugh, I can't take it.

Love. Love. LOVE!!!

Only in Middle Eastern/North African dishes. And then sparingly.

Otherwise: feh! Spit!

I hate raisins in most things...chocolate or yogurt covered are fine though! I especially dislike oatmeal raisin cookies...why ruin a perfectly nice cookie? :)

My mom gave me a fridge magnet that says, "Stupid Raisin! Get out of my cookie!"

I prefer chocolate!

I think they're tasty!

How interesting! I've never met anyone who really loved or hated raisins. I like them just fine in cookies and other sweets. I've always thought adding them to savory dishes was a little strange but I will eat it if it's in front of me.

I love eating raisins and sultanas etc as they are, straight out of a bag as a snack, but I cannot stand them used in recipes for anything, unless they're turned to mush in a blender first.

I love them in both sweet and savory dishes. And I like them better cooked, too.

Mashed with sweet potatoes. In bread, whether sweet with pecans or savory with caraway seeds. Sauteed with spinach and almonds. In salads. Roasted with cauliflower. And of course, in muffins, pumpkin bread, banana bread, carrot cake, and any kind of cookie. I guess I'm in the minority, but I think they make everything better!

Though I will say, I actually don't love them plain. Golden raisins, I do love to eat plain, though.

Eh, won't eat golden ones. And the regular ones have to have the right taste, texture and smell before I'll eat them.

So many wasted boxes of raisins...

Golden raisins are my cooking fave, I put them in Indian dishes.

I pretty much like them all but I won't go out of my way to eat them. Although I DO dislike the ones that have gotten too dry and have that sugar-crunch to them. The sandy texture is just awful.

I wasn't aware they were so polarizing.

I love them but don't give them too much thought unless they are rock hard, in which case, I re-plump them. Sweet or savory dishes; breakfast, lunch or dinner-they are a great addition to a dish.

I like raisins by themselves as a snack, or in cold cereal with milk, but every other application of raisins is, in my opinion, ruining an otherwise tasty dish. Bread puddings, carrot cakes, cookies, and bagels are especially ruined by raisins baked in!! Chocolate covered raisins are a waste of chocolate. Another polarizing topic is nuts, and I personally feel like brownies, pumpkin bread, ice cream, etc. can only be improved by adding nuts.

Pretty much hate them universally, unless they are perched on top of a peanut butter smeared celery stick, masquerading as "ants." Brings me back to my childhood, and therefore, they are acceptable.

HATE! If I could make the font bigger I would! Raisins are the devil!!! I remember being forced to eat them in grade school, ick!

Raisins are digusting. They ruin anything they touch. I will refuse carrot cake, oatmeal cookies, bagels etc... if they have raisins. Yuck. I feel the same about nuts. They don't belong in cookies, brownies, or carrot cakes either! Maybe I'm just a purist. Leave well enough alone and do dip your nuts and fruit in someone else's batter. Leave mine alone! :-)

I love dried fruit of all kinds. I'll even eat prunes.

I love 'em but I will say that one of the most disappointing things in life is thinking your getting a chocolate chip cookie and finding out it's raisin. I love both chocolate chip & oatmeal raisin cookies, but the "fake-out effect" is a heart breaker.

I have no problem with raisins.

I love them in most everything.

Raisins are a good natural snack before work-out and they help fight the bacteria in the mouth that cause cavities and gum disease. I like them.

Love them in cookies, oatmeal and those filled sugar cookies my grandma used to make just for me. I hate them in curry or soup. I love them plain the best!

I think raisin are probably the most horrid thing you could eat.

re-plumped, dry, out of a box, in a baked good, it doesn't matter, all GROSS.

That being said I love dried cherries, and dried cranberries

I don't like raisins, especially in baked goods, especially in carrot cake. For the added texture and flavor complexity, there are so many better things that could be used instead of raisins. I just associate them as boring, rural and cheap, and in particular, I don't like the flavor. I can only forgive them in butter tarts.

Raisins are eeeeeevil. Eeeeeeeevil. A sad and twisted perversion of poor innocent, defenseless grapes.

I don't really like them in recipes, or baked into things...though I do love an oatmeal raisin cookie.

I could not, would not, in a house.
I would not, could not, with a mouse.
I would not eat them with a fox.
I would not eat them in a box.
I would not eat them here or there.
I would not eat them anywhere.


So no. No raisins ever. Just, NO! Why would anyone eat them? Disgusting, foul, weird, awful....No. I eat just about anything, but I won't touch raisins.

Surprisingly, I quite enjoy dried cranberries (aka craisins).

Yucks! I hate raisins, and wonder how anyone can like them!!! On the other hand I also love craisins!

Plain raisins by themselves I won't go out of my way to eat, but I don't detest them. However, mix them with anything else, sweet or savory, and I will avoid them like the plague! If I have to eat a dish with them in to be polite, I will try my hardest to unobtrusively pick them all out.

hungryhungryhippo, i agree completely.

I hate raisins. I love dried cranberries. Raisins are still squishy when they are dried. Squishy = gross.

I like raisins (especially golden ones) in hot cereal or in savory dishes, but hate hate hate them in desserts. Gross. You think you're going to get a bite full of chocolate chip goodness, and it turns out to be sickly sweet chewy raisin.

I like to eat raisins, in trial mix and such, but they do NOT belong in baked goods of any kind. Ever. Use dried cherries, or blueberries, or pretty much anything else if you must bake like that...

Sometimes they are okay in savory dishes (like north African things), but it just makes me sad to find raisins in a cookie or cake...

I don't mind them, but I do prefer golden raisins to dark ones as well. They're much sweeter and plumper.

I also prefer them plumped and soft to dry. I don't like them at all if they're too hard.

I really dislike raisins. Either way.

I really don't like them. I don't know why. I try to sneak them out of oatmeal raisin cookies, and I avoid any kind of sweet bread that contains them. That said, though, I really dislike any Irish Soda Bread made without raisins.

Golden ones are ok. Not great, but not awful.