i use the stem to lift & move Cherry from bowl to mouth. Without stem, I need to use my fingers or a fork/spoon. I prefer stem.

How do you eat grapes?

$3 per pound in Aspen today, down from $5 per pound on Saturday.

So you still use your fingers, they just don't touch the actual fruit. If your hands are clean, it's basically the same thing if you touch the fruit itself. I usually grab a few at a time and pop them in my mouth and spit out the seed (pit) into a small bowl. I wish I could grow a tree, but all attempts have failed so far, most likely due to the climate of South Florida.

.98 per lb in Eureka, CA for over 2 weeks now. They're good too.

this is a Cherry thread :-)

Ok but we’re going to remind you every time you crosspost something. :)

Bings are $2.99 and Rainiers $4.99 (plus the addditional 10% for Prime) at Whole Foods this week. That will be my backup plan if Aldi is out of $1.99s (or if they’re not up to snuff).

Aldis has the Rainers at $4.39, I passed on them today and went for the Bings

I just read in the August issue of Bon Appetit that cherries that still have stems attached mean that they were hand picked which is apparently a good thing. I don't know how to link the article as I have a paper subscription but interesting cherry facts on there.

Hmm, but don't you usually find ones with and ones without mixed together in a bag (and a bunch of unattached stems at the bottom)? I can't say I have ever seen a bag of all stemless cherries, unless we're talking frozen pitted. (And my quick googling suggests that cherries are a crop that requires hand picking, although they are working on technologies for machine picking.)

$5 for a 3lb box at Acme. Not gorgeous, but worth that price.

$4.99/lb for rainiers at sunset foods, hp il

In Northern Michigan they harvest then mechanically.

I paid $3.99 a pound last week for red cherries. I haven’t tried them but I hope they’re better than the last 2 batches.