# My name is Kimballkid and I'm a cherry junkie. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 8, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727 "2013-08-08T17:36:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/1 "2013-08-08T17:36:09Z")
Just bought **another** 5 freakin’ pounds of them to go with the other 10 or so pounds I’ve already bought here and there. It was for a good cause (Children’s Miracle Network) but still it’s just me here. I really don’t need more. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/2 "2013-08-08T18:02:45Z")
Too many cherries don’t make you sick? I swear, for the summer at least, I would subsist on an all-fruit diet if it wouldn’t make me have poops like a lorikeet. ---
**Author:** ![Sicks\_Ate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/258eb7/32.png) [@Sicks\_Ate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sicks_Ate)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/3 "2013-08-08T18:05:51Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > poops like a lorikeet. 😃 Why a lorikeet, may I ask? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/4 "2013-08-08T18:07:15Z")
I can eat cherries until I make myself sick. That and watermelon and corn on the cob. Ah, the on,y part I like about summer. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/5 "2013-08-08T18:13:23Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > 😃 > > Why a lorikeet, may I ask? 🙂 They eat all fruit diets. I would love to have one but I don’t want to have to clean up after them! ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/6 "2013-08-08T18:14:11Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Too many cherries don’t make you sick? I swear, for the summer at least, I would subsist on an all-fruit diet if it wouldn’t make me have poops like a lorikeet. Not sick per se, but the pooping part happens. As Col. Potter would say: “Best thing since the Gatling gun.” 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/7 "2013-08-08T18:15:18Z")
To be fair, I have frozen some and intend to freeze some of this last purchase. ---
**Author:** ![Anaamika](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Anaamika](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anaamika)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/8 "2013-08-08T18:20:12Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > To be fair, I have frozen some and intend to freeze some of this last purchase. Ok, love, you posted this right after your poop comment. I mean, I know you meant cherries. It was just, for a second… ---
**Author:** ![Maeganspop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e56c9b/32.png) [@Maeganspop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maeganspop)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/9 "2013-08-08T18:20:28Z")
> [@Kimballkid](#): > > Not sick per se, but the pooping part happens. As Col. Potter would say: “Best thing since the Gatling gun.” 🙂 Ah, another MASH fan. My favorite show of all time. ---
**Author:** ![perfectparanoia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a5b964/32.png) [@perfectparanoia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/perfectparanoia)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/10 "2013-08-08T18:22:58Z")
My name is perfectparanoia and I am also a cherry junkie. I have eaten (no joke) 40 pounds so far this year and have another 5 in my fridge. And, yes, there have been very interesting poops. But so worth it. ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/11 "2013-08-08T18:23:27Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > 😃 > > Why a lorikeet, may I ask? I bird-sat a rainbow lorikeet once. Beautiful bird, but it squirted poop while hanging onto the cage front. ---
**Author:** ![Musicat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/musicat/32/20189_2.png) [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/12 "2013-08-08T18:24:56Z")
> [@kayaker](#): > > I bird-sat a rainbow lorikeet once. Beautiful bird, but it squirted poop while hanging onto the cage front. Did you feed it cherries? ---
**Author:** ![Kimballkid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b5a626/32.png) [@Kimballkid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kimballkid)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 6:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/13 "2013-08-08T18:31:58Z")
> [@Anaamika](#): > > Ok, love, you posted this right after your poop comment. I mean, I know you meant cherries. It was just, for a second… Yeah, cherries…that’s it, frozen cherries. Not the other thing. I’d never do that. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![kayaker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kayaker/32/441_2.png) [@kayaker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kayaker)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 9:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/14 "2013-08-08T21:51:32Z")
> [@Musicat](#): > > Did you feed it cherries? Everything but. A commercial nectar food and assorted fruit. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2013, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/15 "2013-08-08T23:28:04Z")
I’m there, too. I keep buying them and buying them and eating them and eating them… Be careful, thought. A few years ago I was partaking and not paying attention and I broke a tooth on a cherry pit. It was on a Sunday, no less. Rushed right to the emergency dentist, got it fixed, went home, and and finished the bag. Chewed very mindfully and carefully, which I have done ever since. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 5:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/16 "2013-08-09T05:39:20Z")
I eat anywhere from 15 to 40 cherries a day during the summer. I hesitate to think what that translates to weight wise. I do know that I ate 1.67 pounds one saturday as I finished the whole bag that I had just bought at the grocery. I’ve also made several jars of cherry jam and am soaking a couple of pounds in rum. I love cherries. ---
**Author:** ![chizzuk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e36b37/32.png) [@chizzuk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chizzuk)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 6:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/17 "2013-08-09T06:04:50Z")
I love cherries, but they give me nuclear farts. The stench is ungodly and lingers for a long time. So I’ve kind of given them up, because eating them means I can’t be near other people for like 3 hours and I have to put up with the room smelling like a port-a-potty, which can become draining. And then there’s the possibility of sharting. ---
**Author:** ![Idle\_Thoughts](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/838e76/32.png) [@Idle\_Thoughts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Idle_Thoughts)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 12:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/18 "2013-08-09T12:48:29Z")
Since this is about cherries, I’ll move it to CS. ---
**Author:** ![LavenderBlue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e95f7d/32.png) [@LavenderBlue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LavenderBlue)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 1:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/19 "2013-08-09T13:57:06Z")
Cherries are the best fruit ever. The only comparisons are a really juicy pear or a winesap apple right from the tree but even an ordinary cherry still bests them. They’ve been quite expensive this summer but I’ve been indulging anyway. ---
**Author:** ![Chimera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8e8cbc/32.png) [@Chimera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chimera)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2013, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727/20 "2013-08-09T14:24:59Z")
Well, my standard drinking liquid is Cherry Coke Zero. Used to be the regular stuff until the Diabetes. Rainier Cherry season is my favorite time of the year and I am deeply disappointed that those bastards in South America aren’t growing them so I can have them in winter. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/my-name-is-kimballkid-and-im-a-cherry-junkie/665727.md?page=2)