Cherries are expensive at store

C50 said:
One thing that bothers me about buying cherries or grapes is typically they are already bagged in two pound bags, which is a pound more than I want. At one time the Acme I shop at had a sign on the display cases "No rebagging" because people tend to dump the extra product into the bins creating a mess. I don't mind spending money on what I want but resent being forced to buy more than I can use before it goes bad.
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Same here in all respects. They also put a lot of loose stems in the bags which add to the weight (and cost) and it something that usually isn't eaten. Probably a third of a cherry's weight is waste - stem and pit.
 

debodun said:
Same here in all respects. They also put a lot of loose stems in the bags which add to the weight (and cost) and it something that usually isn't eaten. Probably a third of a cherry's weight is waste - stem and pit.
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I highly doubt the stem and cherry pit is a third of the weight.
 

Same here in all respects. They also put a lot of loose stems in the bags which add to the weight (and cost) and it something that usually isn't eaten. Probably a third of a cherry's weight is waste - stem and pit.

Ahhh, but the pits are useful. My wife has a few bean bag things that are filled with cherry pits. What they're used for is microwave warmed heating pads.
 
According to AI, the combined weight of the stem and pit of a dark sweet cherry typically makes up around 15-20% of the total weight.

This is still a significant total. I've seen some pits as large a pea .
 
I noticed a can of cherry pie filling was $3.17 at Walmart today, which isn't higher than last year. It surprised me, since fresh cherries have gone up.
 
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