I just had a maraschino cherry.

[xiphias]

Have you ever had a maraschino cherry?

I mean, a REAL one?

A sour marasca cherry preserved in syrup?

It's amazing.

The "maraschino cherries" that we get, well, in all honesty, you can taste a little bit of similarity in them. You can actually taste that, if you took a "maraschino cherry" and somehow made it into something GOOD, this is what it would be.

How do I put this? A maraschino cherry is a cherry almost, but not entirely, unlike a maraschino cherry.

Comments

[gilmoure.livejournal.com]

Bleah!

Fruit bad!

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

Fruit in syrup. With sugar.

[arib.livejournal.com]

where would you recommend going to get a real marascino cherry? I'd rather like to try one.

[xiphias.livejournal.com]

BRIX Wine Shop in the South End. They are becoming the go-to place for classic cocktail ingredients -- classic rye, multiple flavors of bitters, and so forth.

[nex0s.livejournal.com]

Mmm. Bitters.

N.

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

woooo...thank you! I remember reading Dale DeGroff's book The Craft of the Cocktail and found that fresh ingredients really did make a difference. But I never knew that maraschino cherries came in another form besides the ones I'm used to from the grocery store. Must try these.

[cheshyre]

The brand in question is Luxardo, which also makes one of the finest brands of maraschino liqueur.

Packaging looks something like this:

[arib.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[fitfool.livejournal.com]

Thanks from me too :)

[dancing-kiralee.livejournal.com]

I kind of like "maraschino cherries"

I suspect I would like marasca cherries preserved in syrup as well.

I think I would consider them two entirely different tastes though - like fresh strawberries and frozen strawberries; they are both good, but don't really have anything to do with each other as tastes sensations.

Kiralee

[nellorat.livejournal.com]

You remind me of a line from a semi-recent King of the Hill: "If this is what food tastes like, what have we been eating all our lives?" I feel that way about gourmet olives and canned black "olives."

[stickylatex.livejournal.com]

Canned black olives taste like bandaids!

[jehanna.livejournal.com]

Yay, real maraschino cherries.

I happen to have a weakness for the fake ones too, but there's quite a lot to be said for the originals.