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Default Cherry pitters made of wire -- Obsolete?

On Jun 18, 7:31*pm, djb > wrote:
> Have you tried Lehman's?
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> http://www.lehmans.com/
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> Dave
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> On Jun 18, 3:34*pm, spamtrap1888 > wrote:
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> > 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?- Hide quoted text -

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I looked at Amazon, at Lehman's, etc., when I first saw the question,
and have yet to see the style she's looking for, although there are
all kinds of other styles.

N.