Cool And Friendly-Like
To make a good drink you need good ingredients. Neon "maraschino" cherries are not a good ingredient. Either buy some Luxardo cherries or make your own brandied cherries. Though to be fair I haven't even followed my own advice, yet. I'm getting by with Twilight Cherries. Anyway, the neon ones are to be avoided. I was once tempted by some stemmed blue cherries but they stayed on the shelf. And then...
Whilst shopping with Cutes she spied a jar of green cherries. I paid them no mind as I figured they were for baking. Then I noticed the stems.
"You should get these," she said. "They could be a blog topic."
"I don't know," said I.
Then I read the label. May contain pits? Lime flavoured? Made by Whytes?
Lime flavoured!?
Lime flavoured!?
Yes, Doug,onions lime flavoured!
So withcoercion approval from the missus I bought a jar. I expected them to smell like green popsicles and that is exactly what I was greeted with when I opened the jar. The taste was less acidic than an actual lime but still more like lime than, say, cherry. Eating one is a bit of a trip akin to eating a Dorito and tasting a cheeseburger thought nowhere near as awesome.
So what to do with these things? I dunno...
Whilst shopping with Cutes she spied a jar of green cherries. I paid them no mind as I figured they were for baking. Then I noticed the stems.
"You should get these," she said. "They could be a blog topic."
"I don't know," said I.
Then I read the label. May contain pits? Lime flavoured? Made by Whytes?
Lime flavoured!?
Lime flavoured!?
Yes, Doug,
So with
So what to do with these things? I dunno...
Comments
One of my guilty pleasures is exactly what you have here. You can occasionally find various cherry colors and even flavors. I have a jar of unopened green cherries in my cabinet and even a jar of orange ones that are flavored with passionfruit. Embrace it!
Here is a post I made a while back with berry-flavored blue ones: http://spiritedremix.blogspot.com/2009/08/golden-rule-alexander-cocktail-ratio.html