[TEXOKIE]

It’s all about the Luxardo cherries ....
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*texokie takes the dry fluffy towel handed to her graciously by mairdie, spits out some sand, and blinks through the streaked trifocals at the sartorial vision in front of her*

Cboldt, I don’t have a clue what a Luxardo cherry has to do with anything, or even what it is, but you say it so elegantly, I don’t care!

[TruthWillWin]

[Cboldt]

When I crawl out of the swimming hole, in a happy fog, the Luxardo cherries (top shelf Maraschino to mix with the cheap whiskey is all they are) are involved ... tangentially to the whiskey.

Real news heard over the scanner this morning, a call to get to "Creative Explorations" child care center, for a 4 year old girl who had creatively explored fitting a rock into her nose.

[mairdie]

I can do a rabbit hole!

Before it became known for its preserved cherries, Luxardo was a distillery on the coast of what was once an Italian province, but is now modern-day Croatia. Founded in 1821 by Girolamo Luxardo, an Italian consul in that region, the company made its name with a cherry liqueur called Maraschino, which Girolamo based on a medieval spirit. The liqueur was made from sour Marasca cherries (grown in the sandy soil of Croatia) and made by distilling the fruit’s leaves, stems, pits, and skins. (It’s those pits, by the way, that give the liqueur its characteristic nutty background flavor, which is often mistaken for almonds.)

In 1905, the distillery started selling cherries candied in a syrup of Marasca cherry juice and sugar, thus creating the original Maraschino cherry.

[blu]

YOu don't want to eat those maraschino cherries. I can tell you how they're made...and I live in cherry country...and I don't eat the cherries on my sundaes.