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QualityMpegs · 07-12-2004, 11:37 AM

I just read this about how maraschino cherries are made:

After months spent visiting maraschino cherry manufacturing plants across the country, we warn you that the answers to these questions are not pleasant. Reading this passage could cause you to stem the flow of cherries into your favorite cocktails. Are you ready to pit yourself against the truth?

Mature sweet cherries are first brined in a solution of one percent sulfur dioxide and one-half percent unslaked lime, which firms and bleaches the fruits to a lovely shade of ivory. Most manufacturers use swimming-pool-size vats in which the cherries are soaked for four to six weeks. The cherries are pitted and bleached again with sodium chlorite. Leaching the cherries in water for 24 to 36 hours removes the bleaching agent. Next, they are stored in sodium bisulfite brine for two weeks to firm them. A sugar solution is added simultaneously with red food coloring and is interchanged five times over seven days until the cherries achieve the necessary sugar content. Finally, almond flavor is added.

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Lensman · 07-12-2004, 11:38 AM

I never liked those things.

QualityMpegs · 07-12-2004, 11:40 AM

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Originally posted by Lensman
I never liked those things.

too good to be true, must be the delicious bleach aftertastes

LoriAnderson · 07-12-2004, 11:43 AM

I watched a bartender I know yesterday eat like a dozen... lol.. I should print this out and show it to her... hehehe

Strife · 07-12-2004, 11:45 AM

guess no more chocolate covered cherries for me...

BradM · 07-12-2004, 11:46 AM

I like the ones that come out here from Washington state for like just over a week.
$5cdn a pound. GOD DAMN are they tasty as a motherfucker. I ate a pound last night!

eiht_98 · 07-12-2004, 11:47 AM

we all have to die from something

QualityMpegs · 07-12-2004, 11:48 AM

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Originally posted by eiht_98
we all have to die from something

Ya, and I definetely want it to be shitty tasting cocktail cherries, heh

VegasSEGirl · 07-12-2004, 11:49 AM

I'll eat them anyways.

Magnus · 07-12-2004, 11:49 AM

When I used to bartend I would laugh when the ladies would beg for extra cherries in their drinks...nasty!!

zanycash Pete · 07-12-2004, 11:49 AM

Probably not healthy! but there are worse things!

I hate those things anyway!

Chris · 07-12-2004, 11:50 AM

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Originally posted by BradM
I like the ones that come out here from Washington state for like just over a week.
$5cdn a pound. GOD DAMN are they tasty as a motherfucker. I ate a pound last night!

The ones that come out of yakima ? My girlfriends father runs a fruit stand and he goes weekly to yakima washington and gets 100's of pounds of cherry's for 1$ a pound and they resell anywhere from 2.99 - 5.99

The best cherrys are the bing cherrys

cfU · 07-12-2004, 11:53 AM

Pour out the cherry juice from the jar replace it w/ everclear, let sit for about 2 days, eat the cherries....ummm good, cherry bombs!

Bryan Havoc · 07-12-2004, 11:56 AM

I'll keep eating them. You can probably get facts like that for just about everything you eat.

Deepai · 07-12-2004, 12:35 PM

Always hated the taste

QualityMpegs · 07-12-2004, 12:42 PM

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Originally posted by JupZChris
The ones that come out of yakima ? My girlfriends father runs a fruit stand and he goes weekly to yakima washington and gets 100's of pounds of cherry's for 1$ a pound and they resell anywhere from 2.99 - 5.99

The best cherrys are the bing cherrys

I love bing cherries!

jade_dragon · 07-12-2004, 12:45 PM

You have eaten them for years and you are still breathing.....humn MAYBE they are ok to eat. MAYBE the FDA does something other than just bust the balls of those of us selling consumable novelty products like enhancers.......glad to see my tax money at work.

You would be suprised how strong your body is and how well it can handle things. If you really wanna go into what goes on with your food and you are going to make life altering dietary decisions based on it save yourself the time and start a farm and only eat what you grow there.

pushpills · 07-12-2004, 12:45 PM

I don't care.

sweet7 · 07-12-2004, 12:48 PM

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Originally posted by Lensman
I never liked those things.

same here, never trusted them

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