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Default Cherry pitters made of wire -- Obsolete?

> On Jun 18, 11:56 am, spamtrap1888 > wrote:

>> 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.


<SNIP>

>> What to do?


Remove the eraser from a wooden pencil. Poke the (now empty) metal end
of the pencil through a cherry to remove the pit.

Quick, easy and almost free.

Susan