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Old 07-27-2013, 03:05 PM
 
Location: Central Maine
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Mine are getting ripe. I've got a large tree that I enjoy every year. I end up eating about 5% of the berries, not sure where the rest go. Anyone else enjoy eating them or making stuff out of them?
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Old 07-27-2013, 03:43 PM
 
Location: Dade City, Fl.
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never heard of eating them.......used to have wars with them as a kid tho........
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Old 07-27-2013, 04:23 PM
 
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Default Chokes

Never tried chokecherry wine? one of the best wines I've ever tasted, and sure packs a whallop. I thought everyone in North America ate chokes, they are only second at this time of the year to saskatoons.
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Old 07-27-2013, 04:47 PM
 
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we use to eat them as kids...
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Old 07-28-2013, 06:49 AM
 
Location: Central Maine
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Never tried chokecherry wine? one of the best wines I've ever tasted, and sure packs a whallop. I thought everyone in North America ate chokes, they are only second at this time of the year to saskatoons.
I'd love to try this someday. I know they bottle it in the Midwest. Haven't seen it in Maine though.

I too am surprised that someone hasn't tasted a chokecherry. They are all over the country.
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Old 07-28-2013, 10:27 AM
 
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I've never picked a chokecherry but I used to have a friend whose mother made the absolutely BEST chokecherry jams and jellies on Planet Earth. That was 50 years ago and I still haven't forgotten how good it was.
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Old 07-28-2013, 02:53 PM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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I thought chokecherries were poisonous!
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Old 07-28-2013, 03:19 PM
 
Location: Central Maine
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Heck no. Hi in antioxidants with a ... distinct aftertaste. Like Moxie. The pits contain a little cyanide, so don't chew them up and swallow them in quantity.
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Old 07-28-2013, 04:06 PM
 
Location: Free Palestine, Ohio!
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I thought chokecherries were poisonous!

Only if you eat a really big one and it gets stuck in your throat!


...ummm...chokecherry jam...ummmmm....
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Old 07-29-2013, 07:05 AM
 
Location: on a dirt road in Waitsfield,Vermont
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When I rented a place in Wyoming I had a big chokecherry tree. One year I thought it would be fun to make some syrup. Since a chokecherry is 90% pit it was alot of work for very little product so I just stick to wild blueberries now that I have returned to Vermont.
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