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"I cannot tell a lie. I did cut the tree"
But he wasn't done with cherries. He stashed some in bottles in the basement at Mt. Vernon. Story here.
Archaeologists participating in the $40 million Mansion Revitalization Project at George Washington’s Mount Vernon have unearthed two sealed 18th-century glass bottles containing preserved cherries.
These bottles, discovered in the Mansion cellar, were found upright and sealed, reflecting their European manufacture and characteristic shapes from the 1740s to 1750s. The cellar, where the bottles were nestled beneath a brick floor laid in the 1770s, preserved them untouched since before the Revolutionary War...
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That's cool!
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The question in my mind would be whether those cherries would be fit to eat.
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If the cherries fermented what would be the octane? Larry
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I want a sapling from the seeds... imagine that...
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Reminding us all of the 40+ year old joke.
Mr Carter to little Jimmy. Jimmy did you chop down my favorite peanut bush? Father I cannot tell a lie, maybe I did and maybe I didn't.
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When I was in college I worked for JC Penney. For one President's Day they dressed me up as Geo. Washington and had me sell cherry pies and hatchets at a table at one of the entrances to the store. Thankfully camera phones and the internet weren't a thing then.
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From my home brewing days (1990s) I still have George Washington's recipes for beer in my files (from a letter he wrote to a friend, way back when). Biggest problem is deciphering the terminologies used for ingredients.
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