Raisins and raisin cookies get a bad rap for nothing and are actually delicious

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Okay, if you think a cookie is chocolate chip and it turns out to be raisin, that sucks. But raisin cookies are still delicious. And raisins are a wonderful snack. They absolutely do not deserve the hate they get.

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  2. Gasarocky Avatar

    Even when I try them after a couple years cause I convince myself it can’t be that bad, I try it and immediately regret it 

  3. skate1243 Avatar

    i actually love oatmeal raisin cookies. ridicule me please

  4. Blueface_or_Redface Avatar

    I like raisins. I wont go out of my way to buy them but if someones got them, ill snack down.

  5. rose_moons Avatar

    i am a diehard oatmeal and raisin cookie fan, i’m so glad someone had the balls to share our truth

  6. Skrinkydoodlebe Avatar

    the invention of the oatmeal raisin cookie is probably in the top 13 things to have ever occurred

  7. Fantastic_While_ Avatar

    No they arent, Source: My tastebuds

  8. No_Independence8747 Avatar

    Raisins are good. Raisin cookies are hateful

  9. Responsible-Reason87 Avatar

    the mccormick oatmeal raisin recipe is the best!

  10. FedBathroomInspector Avatar

    Who let grandma get ahold of the computer?

  11. picklepuss13 Avatar

    love oatmeal raisin also

  12. benificialart Avatar

    Oatmeal cookies are good. Raisins are disgusting. 

  13. Lovingly-ducky Avatar

    Raisins are great, its just that they get added to food that they have no right to be in

  14. andrew2018022 Avatar

    I’ll die on the oatmeal raisin > chocolate chip hill

  15. illegally_blonde21 Avatar

    Weird. I actually don’t know anyone that hates them…

  16. peachygatorade Avatar

    I hate straight up raisins but I like raisin cookies and raisin bread

  17. FrostedPoptart1 Avatar

    I love raisins and I LOVE oatmeal raisin cookies.

  18. slideforfun21 Avatar

    One time when I was maybe 7 or 8 I was watching a Harry Potter movie. I’m not the biggest fan of pop corn so grabbed a 1.2kg bag of raisins and currents. I some how ate the whole thing and very obviously threw it back up. I haven’t had one since and I don’t plan on it.

  19. Prof_Fuzzy_Wuzzy Avatar

    I pick up a chocolate chip cookie and I’m disappointed it’s not oatmeal raisin.

  20. coreyander Avatar

    I agree, raisins are amazing in oatmeal cookies and bran muffins

  21. Naos210 Avatar

    I don’t mind them honestly. Though I don’t like raisins on their own. 

  22. MrsSpyro01 Avatar

    It’s the texture of raisins I have a problem with.

  23. BaconBombThief Avatar

    Bad taste, bad texture, bad ingredient.

    I will allow a sparse sprinkling of craisins in a salad with baby spinach instead of lettuce, crushed walnuts or pecans, parmesan, mango chunks, and balsamic dressing. But that’s literally my only acceptable exception

  24. charlieto0human Avatar

    Oatmeal raisin cookies are probably my favorite cookie… Are they as popular as the chocolate chip cookie among the general public? Probably not, so I’ll give you an upvote even though I completely agree with you

  25. espressocycle Avatar

    There’s nothing worse than biting into an oatmeal raisin cookie and finding chocolate chips.

  26. tek_nein Avatar

    I don’t like the flavor at all. But I also don’t like regular grapes so perhaps that is why.

  27. I-Am-Willa Avatar

    If I was eating an oatmeal raisin cookie right now. I’d probably throw the raisins away. They’re just unnecessary.

  28. Girl_Power55 Avatar

    Raisins are my favorite!

  29. DDD8712 Avatar

    With me the issue was the texture of raisins. I will eat them now but I never did growing up

  30. Gobiego Avatar

    My wife used to add a little cardamom and golden raisins.
    I never heard any complaints.

  31. FigureBorn4734 Avatar

    They’re bad until your bowels cry out for them. 

  32. crm24601 Avatar

    100% mostly all hate is because of thinking it’s a chocolate chip cookie

  33. xpoisonvalkyrie Avatar

    every time i’ve tried raisins, i’ve questioned why anyone purposely eats them. horrible little things.

  34. MrSarcasem Avatar

    Oatmeal cookies are indeed tasty.

  35. JohnnySalamiBoy420 Avatar

    Wtf who is talking shit on raisin cookies

  36. Shmacoby Avatar

    The oatmeal is perfectly fine, raisins ruin a cookie

  37. moonhonay Avatar

    tw: if you like raisins and want to keep liking raisins, don’t read this.

    when I was a child I was told that raisins are dried up bloody boogers and I could not ever eat one again. if I bite into one I freak out. I do agree about oatmeal cookies tho. so good w/o raisins 😆

  38. No_Sun_192 Avatar

    I cannottttt with the texture of raisins. They do taste good though. I’m okay with dates and stuff when they’re not like solid and a weird af texture

  39. Invitoveritas666 Avatar

    Agree.. also, I love enemas, and toothy blowjobs…

  40. Samael13 Avatar

    I’ve never had a cookie with a raisin where I didn’t think “this would be better if it was a chocolate chip.”

  41. olmudbone Avatar

    Better than chocolate chip

  42. Accomplished-Yogurt4 Avatar

    Raisin cookies suck, texture is bad. Chocolate chip all the way

  43. SensitiveCaviar Avatar

    Dammit! Now I want an ooey gooey oatmeal raisin cookie

  44. Triscuitmeniscus Avatar

    God’s chocolate chips, I call them.

  45. Automatic_Teach1271 Avatar

    I do not like them. 3 outta 10 cookie. Prefer lemon or chocolate 

  46. Accomplished-Pin6763 Avatar

    Yawn. Another unpopular food opinion post. So clever, your mom must be proud.

  47. TheGiraffterLife Avatar

    I hate raisins, but oatmeal raisin cookies are my favorite. Don’t try to think about it too hard; it doesn’t make sense to me, either. 

  48. I-Kneel-Before-None Avatar

    I tolerate raisins. Delicious is stretching it. But thats the thing about taste. Some people like eating cockroaches too.

  49. MGmanhye Avatar

    Don’t care that much for chocolate. So o prefer oatmeal raisin cookies, especially if they’re gooey

  50. BokChoyFantasy Avatar

    Oatmeal raisin cookies are god tier. Regular raisin cookies are just sad.

  51. Pissytapgoddess Avatar

    I like raisins. I like cookies. Just nor in the same cookie. Let’s just say I was tricked into thinking that they were chocolate chip back in the day and I’m still not over it

  52. care_love_peace Avatar

    I’ve hated no loathed raisins from kindergarten on. My teacher did this “letter day” thing and we would go to a location near school and snack that had to do with the letter. R day was raisins and railroad street. I was a horribly picky child and she even got reprimanded for how mean she was to me over food. Besides forcing me to eat everything on my tray at lunch, she also took these letter days, which where usually unsupervised besides her, to force feed me whatever she brought and make the class angry with me because we couldn’t leave until I ate the food.

    I’ve tried them as an adult and still hate them. They taste like old grapes that dried out under the couch then you decide to “oh a treat!” And pop it in your mouth. Feels similar to coffee and tea in that sense of “leaf water” or “roasted bean water”. Just things that don’t taste good but some people love.

  53. ace1oak Avatar

    i personally just dont like raisins so they can f off lol

  54. bigpaparod Avatar

    It absolutely deserves the hate they get… squishy, mushy, chewy nasty little chocolate chip imitators.

    It is especially heinous when hidden into carrot cake… seriously fuck those people.

  55. BAMspek Avatar

    Oatmeal raisin is one of my favorite cookies. Maybe even second place.

  56. Hour-Cucumber-1857 Avatar

    For me, its too many textures. The flat smooth oatmeal, the chewy raisin, and ive never had 2 cookies with the same moisture level. Idk if its bevause of tbe oatmeal absorbing moisture, some are ROCK SOLID, some are crumbly, some are moist(which makes me suspicious). Its unpredictable, and inherently an unsafe choice.

    The only one below it for me ks gingerbread cookies. They need to be thin, not thick

  57. Moviesman8 Avatar

    It’s this the subreddit where you downvote to agree?

  58. suspicious-octopus88 Avatar

    The texture of raisins in any baked goods is what puts me off it legitimately makes me want to expell my insides

  59. MFT214 Avatar

    I agree with you. I know why there is so much dislike though. I Love raisins in baked goods, UNLESS, the raisins are even slightly overdone. That’s so hard with cookies because a lot of time they’re on the bottom and it all just tastes like burnt raisin. I could take a craisin replacement almost every time. They taste delicious and don’t get that burnt taste.

  60. Appropriate-Bid8671 Avatar

    Oatmeal raisin has always been my favorite cookie. Snickerdoodles are my second.

  61. Revegelance Avatar

    There are good raisins, and there are bad raisins. It’s easy for one to have only had the old, desiccated, chewy, grainy raisins, and assume that all raisins are bad. But raisins can be good, when they’re nice and plump, soft, and moist.

  62. Eyespop4866 Avatar

    It wasn’t just regular awful. It was fancy awful. Awful with raisins in it.

    • apologies to Dorothy Parker
  63. Final_Dance_4593 Avatar

    Oatmeal Raisin cookies are great

  64. DriftingPyscho Avatar

    Granny’s oatmeal raisin cookies 🥲

    RIP 

  65. Apprehensive_Pin3536 Avatar

    Craisin white chocolate chip

  66. cottoncandymandy Avatar

    I like raisins but I don’t want them in anything. I eat them by themselves. I hate them in baked goods. 🤷‍♀️

  67. FrontAd9873 Avatar

    Is there such a thing as a raisin cookie? Oatmeal is the dominant ingredient in an oatmeal raisin cookie.

  68. maryangbukid Avatar

    Unpopular but I agree. In fact, rum raisin cookies are absolute fire🔥🔥

  69. Dalenskid Avatar

    A good oatmeal raisin cookie is fire. No complaints from me. If I want a chocolate chip cookie I don’t want oatmeal. If I want an oatmeal cookie I want raisins. Not unpopular at all.

  70. OrganikOranges Avatar

    I like raisins on their own, and I like oatmeal cookies, but I don’t like cooked raisins. They get rehydrated and gross

  71. shyghost403 Avatar

    Oatmeal Raisin cookies are my favorite.

  72. EwGrossItsMe Avatar

    I’m not much for chocolate chip cookies and I ADORE oatmeal raisin, have since I was a kid. So imagine my surprise and dismay when my high school marching band had sandwiches and cookies for our catering meal and I saw what I joyously thought was a warm, thick, oatmeal raisin cookie, just to bite into it and be met with not the loving embrace of cinnamon and raisins with the oatmeal cookie, but rather just drowning in the melted semisweet chocolate overpowering the rest of the cookie.

  73. LongHairedKnight Avatar

    Oatmeal raisin (with cinnamon!) is my favourite cookie actually. I prefer it to chocolate.

  74. i_run_from_problems Avatar

    The Costco oatmeal raisin cookie is one of the best ones I’ve ever had

  75. ConstantMan1a Avatar

    wait they have a bad rep??? aw man, i love raisins, raisins in bagels, in cookies, in oatmeal, theyre so good

  76. Doc_Money Avatar

    This place is for unpopular opinions but all I see here is a fact.

  77. DTH1998 Avatar

    I will die on the hill that oatmeal raisin are among the best cookies but to say raisins are a “wonderful snack” is wild 😂

  78. HollyBobbie Avatar

    I like raisins in cookies, hold the chocolate and use oatmeal instead. Also raisins are wonderful in carrot cake and bran cereal. I really want raisins now. Thanks!

  79. Efficient_Mobile_391 Avatar

    Oatmeal raisin is the GOAT!

  80. leeloocal Avatar

    Do you also say that raisins are “nature‘s candy?” Because they aren’t.