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Cherry pitters made of wire -- Obsolete?
Have you tried Lehman's?
http://www.lehmans.com/
Dave
On Jun 18, 3:34*pm, spamtrap1888 > wrote:
> I added two more relevant groups and edited the subject for clarity.
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> On Jun 18, 11:56*am, spamtrap1888 > wrote:
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> > Having picked a quart and a half of sour cherries, I was panicking
> > when I could not find my little made-in-Hong-Kong cherry pitter, the
> > kind that slips over two fingers and is operated with the thumb.
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> > I thought, well this must be easy to find, only to discover that no
> > grocery or hardware or kitchen supply store (e.g. Surly Table) within
> > miles carries this any more.
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> > And this is the canonical cherry pitter according to wikipedia:
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> >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherry_pitter
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> > All I can find are great hulking things made out of pot metal,
> > suitable for pitting olives, egg carton things that can pit four at a
> > time, etc. None are suitable for relatively tiny sour cherries.
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> > What to do?
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