Serious Eats: Joyous's Profile

Ahem, well, no wonder Shirley Temples were not cherry enough for her... grenadine's made with pomegranate juice, not cherries. (Well, the real stuff, at least. The stuff you find most places is just artificially flavored corn syrup made from NO juice).

I LOVE big cherries in the same way I love most other things I can only handle a few times a year. Whenever I go on a long road trip, I seem to always have to have a Big Cherry and a McDonald's cheeseburger, two things I'd avoid like the plague in my day-to-day life.

Tactful_Cactus at 6:57PM on 10/29/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

Yum! Every once in awhile I'll get a fresh raw almond that has that same flavour and I'll think, "Mmm ... cherries." It's funny (to me) that I have that association in one direction, but not the other.

jeninewsbite at 3:07PM on 10/28/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

I don't mind the occasional maraschino cherry, but Big Cherry is disgusting. Far too sweet, almost to the point of bitter.

me3dia at 12:31PM on 10/28/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

love them!

sfred at 12:08PM on 10/28/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

I've never seen the Big Cherry before, but man do I love the Twin Bing. Pretty much the same thing, I think

BlueCheezit at 12:06PM on 10/28/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

No, thank you.

Kerosena at 11:58AM on 10/28/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

Love.

dove3579 at 10:53AM on 10/28/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

Mmmmaraschino cherries. There are few cherry related food, or food-like-substances that I don't enjoy, and to this day I hope someone at the table is one of the Maraschino Cherry haters like the above, so I can snag theirs and have an extra one...

seadkdc at 10:33AM on 10/28/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

When I was in high school I remember reading Craig Claiborne's comment that "the three worst foods begin with the letter 'M' --- marshmallows, marzipan and maraschino cherries." I disagreed with him then, and I disagree with him these many decades later.

richard dilallo at 9:57AM on 10/28/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

The Manhattan: the manliest drink with a cherry in it.

[Love maraschino cherries]
[[& Manhattans]]

PeteRepeat42 at 7:52AM on 10/28/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

I *adore* maraschino cherries. I haven been known to eat an entire jar of them with a fork in one sitting, then pour 7up in the leftover juice and drink that.

...I just realized how weird that is.

cupcakekelly at 5:54AM on 10/28/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

Of course.. it doesn't help my nickname is Cherry (My name is Cherish)

Tahitinova at 2:58AM on 10/28/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

ag3208 "eats all the cherries in the can of fruit cocktail."

I do that too!

Tahitinova at 2:36AM on 10/28/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

I love them! I randomly just take one out of the jar in the fridge when I'm browsing for other things, and off the bar when at work. I love them in Coke, and inside chocolate ala chocolate covered cherries. I do not like Big Cherries though; it's the nuts.

Tahitinova at 2:34AM on 10/28/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

It tastes funky and just plain yucky.

PattyCho at 12:53AM on 10/28/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

I am always happy to see a marashino cherry. I love them.

smile at 12:02AM on 10/28/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

I love maraschino cherries. my sisters and i used to buy whole jars at the grocery store and eat them on the walk home.

My favorite part of n amaretto sour!

mayoxqueen at 11:23PM on 10/27/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

Dad wouldn't let us eat them. He said they were full of Red Dye #2, or was it #3? Whichever, apparently the dye was supposed to cause cancer, and they were pretty gross anyway.

emilydev at 11:10PM on 10/27/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

Oh man, I love them. My friends and I have a running joke that it's absurd how much we covet them in our sundaes, especially since we're all well into our 30s and can buy a jar whenever we damn well please. Still, there's something about getting one on a sundae that makes it so much sweeter.

BangieB at 11:07PM on 10/27/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

i believe it was ogden nash who put it best:

"this sickly artificial sweet
is bad to look at, and worse to eat.

and heaven knows the pains i take
to scrape them off ice cream or cake."

{sorry, but it's probably not exact quote -- it rattles around in my brain, and has for years.}

cybercita at 11:03PM on 10/27/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

mmmm i love maraschino cherries and this candy looks beyond great!!

teenagefoodie at 10:33PM on 10/27/08

From Serious Eats

Vintage Candy Monday: Big Cherry

I have to agree with PeanutButter (great name by the way), the cherry is the best part of the Manhattan.

My mom loves maraschino cherries but thinks eating them directly out of the jar is bad, so she piles 5-10 on her sundaes, and eats all the cherries in the can of fruit cocktail.

ag3208 at 10:00PM on 10/27/08

From Serious Eats

11 Foods Serious Eaters Should Be Eating

I just found this website not so long ago.
I find all of you so very refreshing and funny.
Doesn't appear to be a food snob amongst this group.
To Shnauzer_mom -- I'm with you with the vodka and pomegranate.

My humble opinion...we are works in progress and sometimes we digress.
The 11 are a good jumping off point.
Bon Sante!

Nonny at 7:20PM on 07/18/08

From Serious Eats