....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.!

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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Terry Pulliam Burd > wrote in
:

> ...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'm with you........ they taste *so* much better than the canned variety.


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a vegetarian.

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
>
> To reply, remove "spambot" and replace it with "cox"

Golden One > wrote:

>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!

Came across a product call "Cornelian cherry" jam. It still
has the pits in it. Tasty, but it is literally the pits having
some of this jam on toast.

I wonder if your device would work on these.

Steve