This is a public service warning to all my readers. See these above? These are "cherries".You can buy them in "greengrocers", or, if like me you prefer all your shopping needs to be conveniently located under one roof, in Lidl.
Well, beware! These innocent-looking blighters have hard bits of wood in them called "stones". Hard enough you could break your teeth on them if not forewarned! As I wasn't. These "stones" serve some kind of purpose but science has, as yet, been unable to work out exactly what. One theory runs they are a protective device against cherry-hunters, making them unpalatable at best and dangerous at worst, and so have allowed the "fruit" to survive unchanged since prehistoric times.
And the long stick bits aren't edible either.
Consider yourselves duly advised. You'll thank me.
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