On Jul 26, 4:35*am, Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote:
> ...has been staring you in the face, *begging* to be noticed.
>
> I was pitting cherries this afternoon, prepatory to making Himself's
> weekly lunch dessert (cherry crisp) and, as usual, I was chasing pits
> all over the kitchen about every third cherry when the light went on:
> why don't I, I say to myself, place a paper towel in a bowl and eject
> the pits into the bowl instead of the paper towel lying flat on the
> counter? Yumpin' Yimminee, plain as the nose on my face.
>
> And as an aside, every time someone finds out I actually pit cherries
> instead of using canned ones, they act absolutely bumfuzzled. Yeah,
> it's a lot of prep work, but it is *so* much better - and they were on
> sale at Albertson's for $1.99 lb.!

I have a device that I use to pit cherries. It is shaped like a small
pair of tongs, with a cup on one side that holds the cherry. This cup
has a hole large enough for the pit to pass through, the other side of
the *tongs* is a spike that comes down and pushes the pit out through
the cherry and the hole. Due to its sometimes spectacular expulsion of
the pit I call it my cherry gun! Never wear white clothes!

JB

>
> Terry "Squeaks" Pulliam Burd
>
> --
>
> "If the soup had been as warm as the wine,
> if the wine had been as old as the turkey,
> and if the turkey had had a breast like the maid,
> it would have been a swell dinner." Duncan Hines
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