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CPR strawberries usually plural C.P.R. strawberries DCHP-2 (October 2016)

• n. — Food, historical, slang

  prunes.

  Type: 1. Origin — Railway worker slang from the days of construction of the CPR until about the 1930s (note the 1986 quotation seems to date the term incorrectly). Now used merely in historical contexts (see the 2001 Gerylo quotation). Prunes were also known as lumberman's strawberries.
  COD-2 labels the term "Cdn informal jocular" and defines it as "prunes or dried apples"; we found no evidence that the term referred to apples.

  See also: lumberman's strawberries  Canadian Pacific Railway