It's made from the Cochineal insect. It's gross. But this insect is also the source of color for lots of other things, like makeup.
Sure. Why not?
No.
An average amount of average size cherries in a one gallon jar is ... 200... John G.
As far as I can tell you can only buy maraschino cherries online, they are imported from the United States.
Ice cream, pastries, drinks, maraschino cherries
Food.
When maraschino cherries grow on the cherry tree, they have pits. As they are processed into the product that you find in the jar, the pits are removed.
Maraschino cherries were originally made with marascacherries. These grow around the area of the Adriatic sea. Beginning in the 1880's, the Luxardo company (makers of the famous Luxardo Maraschino Liqueur) began exporting jarred cherries to the U.S. and these were the same cherries which were used in its liqueur, along with the pits. Now, other generic brands of "maraschino cherries' are widely available and these are what most people are familiar with but they bear little resemblance to Luxardo cherries. You can still get Luxardo cherries, however, in specialty gourmet stores or online.
Marasca cherries are a small bitter Italian cherry used to make the liqueur "Maraschino". This liqueur was in turn used to flavor other cherries for decorative effect in cooking and drinks. Today, however, the "maraschino" cherries are produced in a number of locations from local cherries soaked in food coloring and sugar instead of by the original recipe. The cherries themselves are not Marasca cherries but any of a number of light fleshed sweet cherries
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Uncle Todd likes to drink Shirley Temples with stemmed maraschino cherries.
can u eat them or not