100% Juice, Tart Cherry.

[BigmanPigman]

22. The canned cherries they sell in CA suck.

There is no real juice, just watery red liquid.

When I was growing up my family never bought sweets and snacks and they never allowed us to eat out, no pizzas, McDonald's, etc. EVER! Since I loved to cook (thank you Easy Bake Ovens) I had to sneak my real pie making skills after school, before my parents got home from work. It wasn't easy to pick, pit and make and then cook them but I was determined. I made mini-pies but was too small to reach into the real oven so my older sister had to take them in and out and she benefited by getting half of each one. After she went to college I was big enough to do it myself and once I made a whole peach pie and hid it in my closet. I ate the whole thing in under 3 days, YUM!!! And I only weighed less than 100 pounds throughout those years.

Years later my parents went back to our old house outside of Phila and the cherry tree was GONE, as were most of our trees; black walnut, peach, plums, Oak (which I personally grew from an acorn), Dogwwods, Maple, etc.) It breaks my heart.