“For Christmas, I was given a jar of cherries in brandy. I was grateful not just for the cherries, but for the spirit in which it was given!”

“Brandied cherries” are cherries preserved in a sweetened brandy syrup. There’s a joke about brandied cherries and “Christmas spirit.”
 
“I was given a jar of cherries in brandy,I was grateful not just for the cherries but for the spirit in which it was given!!!!” was posted on Facebook by One Liners And Snappy Gags - Donald Jenkins on December 8, 2020. “For Christmas I was given a jar of cherries in brandy, I was grateful not just for the cherries but for the spirit in which it was given!” was posted on Facebook by One Liners And Snappy Gags - Graham Harrison on December 11, 2022.
 
   
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Donald Jenkins ·
December 8, 2020 at 11:15 AM ·
I was given a jar of cherries in brandy,I was grateful not just for the cherries but for the spirit in which it was given!!!!
       
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Graham Harrison ·
December 10, 2021 at 7:56 AM ·
I was given a jar of cherries in brandy, I was grateful not just for the cherries but for the spirit in which it was given!
   
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Graham Harrison ·
December 11, 2022 at 9:55 AM ·
For Christmas I was given a jar of cherries in brandy, I was grateful not just for the cherries but for the spirit in which it was given!
 
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For Christmas I was given a jar of cherries in brandy, I was grateful not just for the cherries, but for the spirit in which it was given!
12:20 PM · Dec 11, 2022
 
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Al Lowe
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I got a jar of cherries in brandy for Christmas. I’m grateful, not for the cherries, but for the spirit in which they were given!
2:43 AM · Dec 19, 2023
 
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@BigBearF1
I was given a jar of cherries in brandy, as an early Christmas present ,I was grateful not just for the cherries but for the spirit in which it was given.
12:29 PM · Dec 15, 2024
 
Bluesky
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For Christmas I was given a jar of cherries in brandy.  I was grateful not just for the cherries, but for the spirit in which it was given!
3:29 PM · Dec 14, 2025
 
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Robert Wilkinson
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Last Christmas I was given a jar of cherries in brandy.  I was grateful not just for the cherries, but for the spirit in which it was given.
7:51 AM · Dec 19, 2025