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Tuesday, October 24, 2006 12:00 AM

The cherry on top

Like love and alcohol, the maraschino cherry possesses the rare power to make a kid feel like an adult, and an adult feel like a kid. A sweet history.
By Josh Sens

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  • Tuesday, October 24, 2006 05:58 AM

    A sweet article

    Josh, thanks for a beautifully written, insightful article. I'll forever think of maraschinos as "the neon bouys" in Shirley Temples. Who knew these little gems of Americana could capture our lives--childhoods and adulthoods--so well?

    My big childhood memory of the maraschino is kind of campy/kind of sinister: My mother would pluck hers from her sundae and ask my brother and me, "Who wants the poison cherry?" Sick little buggers, we both would say "Me!"

    —RatherBRidin' Read RatherBRidin''s other letters

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