toddy, I spend 3/4 year in the woods doing primitive living skills, I am not a survivalist I live what I preach. dont know why you are attacking me, but if you dont like my advice then you dont have to listen to it. Your cherries are not the same cherries in America - our black cherry, fire cherries, pin cherries, chokecherries are very tiny, and smashing the pits and eating them is what we Native Americans been doing since beginning of time. commericval cherries, peaches, and nectarine pits I am not going to eat, unless I am straving. thoug we have a apricot crossed with almond, so you can have both fruit and seed.
if you ever tried removing a black cherry pit in america woods you wood quickly realize you are wasting your time, you better off rubbing them together until skin peels off, not a lot of flesh on them. but you would not know that because you dont live here so I will excuse your comment on survivalist. and if you were in these woods, for long time, you be eating pits, bark, and anything that crawled before you starve to death.