They appeared on the top shelf of my cupboard some time ago. The box surprised me, but I get at least one every year. They just now surface earlier in the season. I just try to pretend I don't see them there.
I told my Hubby the first year we were together, that my Dad would always buy my Mum a box of chocolate covered cherries for Christmas. Dad got the idea to to this because my Grampa had always bought my Mum chocolate covered cherries. It was tradition.
When guests would come over, the box of candy would be passed around. Being a diabetic, I was excluded from sampling this seasonal treat. In my wiser years I asked my mother why she would share her gift and not eat them for herself. "I hate chocolate covered cherries", was Mum's answer. "I always have." She was just too polite to point that out to her family.
My Hubby and I were out shopping that first year together, and I went into a severe hypo-glycemic shock. Hubby hurriedly bought a couple boxes of cherries and managed to get me out into his truck in the parking lot, where he fed me candy until my blood sugar returned to normal, and I could walk and talk corherantly once again. The candy saved me from unconsciousness.
Now I get boxes of that crap every year as soon as they start appearing in the stores. Any one want to come over for some coffee and cherries?
Saturday, November 12, 2005
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9 comments:
lol, sure, I'll come over, but just for the coffee :-)
Good post, wouldn't expect anything less ;-)
I am there...mmm good coffee..but can I just suck the chocolate off the cherries? lmao...being diabetic now myself..gotta be reasonable lol
In an occasional rain with gusts of wind Minnesota minute!
Me mum thought that chocolate covered cherries were the “in” thang, but I knew better!
However I have been known to bite off the tops and drain the “juice” over a glass of ice while discarding the chocolate and the cherries and have a really sweet “cordial”! Ok, it’s a lot of work, but where else was a 7 year old going to go drink?
I've never liked chocolate covered cherries either. They seem plastic. Now Peanut brittle- oh man. My mother in law makes this stuff where she uses salted peanuts and a butter toffee sort of stuff. It's enough to make my teeth ache.
...yes, but...
...I'm afraid...
...of cherries...
...and you...
Now now Batty, if you step over the man pit in front of my door, and avoid the net hanging over my kitchen island, you shuld be some what safe. But if your coffe tastes a little funnt and you lose a few days...
"Discard the chocolate", Fromage?? I have never done that sacralige.
And Ladies, I have never thrown any away. I never learn. I will break down and try them just to see if this year the .99 cent box of waxy yuckyness has improved. Then we invent some sick games with the stale old ones, how long will the dog hold it in his mouth before he drops it, who can throw one as far as the mailbox...
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