I Gave Cherries the Knockout Punch
Posted in Back in History on 01/12/2009 06:57 am by RonnicaI got so many comments about cherries, both for and against, that I realized I had to share my story about why I kissed cherries good-bye. Except I wouldn’t kiss them, because that would require me to put them to my lips.
When I was young, probably 4 or 5, I was eating cherry cheesecake at a large gathering at the house of one of my dad’s work buddies. We were all having a good time, until I bit down on a cherry with a pit still inside.
It hurt. And I made a face. And I probably cried for my mommy. And all the adults in the room laughed at me.
Not yet being a woman of the world, I didn’t know that cherries naturally had pits. All the cherries I had ever had always came in cans, probably in the aforementioned fruit cocktail. Even now, I’ve never seen a pitted cherry unless it was fresh.
So then and there I gave up the cherries. It’s not been hard and fast, as I enjoy the flavor of the cherry goo stuff that comes with the canned cherry cheesecake topping. It’s just that cherries have a weird texture and well, they caused me to be laughed at.
So, a cherry made me a laughingstock, so I’ve left ‘em out in the cold. I wonder when they are going to beg me to take them back?
