Did you know: Back in 1350 italian monasteries were allowed to grow and produce wine, yet it was forbidden to eat the fruit in order to opt out the harvest. But it was also forbidden to collect grapes that were already lying on the ground in order to improve quality. So the clever monks casually dropped some of the grapes in order to eat them later. To not draw too much attention they didn’t picked them up immediately. Once a week one of the monks sneaked out to collect them. Lying around in the summer sun all day, the grapes had dried and shrunk. The monks hid the drought grapes in a bucket hanging down an old well. They called their secret “little sins” as it technically wasn’t forbidden, yet they played some cheeky tricks on the pope doing so. Whenever the monks wanted to eat some of the dried grapes they had to pull up the bucket from the well, a procedure they refered to as “raising the sins” which later over the migration of speech derived into “raisins”.