Thursday, June 4, 2009

Cherry chomper

OK, I have no idea if this works or not, but I really, really want it to work, because...well, because.

If you have to sit and pit cherries, as I did recently (check in tomorrow), you might as well be amused at the same time. To work the Cherry Chomper, you stick a cherry in his mouth and press down on his head. A plunger pushes the pit out of the cherry and into the chomper's belly. Apparently it works for pitting olives, too.

My great-aunt Nan used to pit cherries with a hairpin. She dug the U end of the hairpin down into the cherry until she got to the bottom of the pit, then she pulled the hairpin back up on the other side of the pit. She worked like lightening with her gnarled arthritic hands. It was really something. She probably would have been disdainful of the Cherry Chomper.

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