Birth of "Cherry OK"

The Birth of "Cherry OK"

Many may confuse it with Karaoke, but its "Cherry OK". 

Those who have ever lived in Chennai, or have a Tamil Girl Friend or Tamil friends will definitely know about "Cherry OK". It's like saying "Theek Hai" or "It's OK". 

But how did this "Cherry OK" come in existence?

The birth of "Cherry OK" is dated thousands of years back. I mean really thousands. Awesomely thousands. 

Chennai is known for its hot and humid climate. This was only post the Himalaya Collision. Before Himalayas existed, Chennai used to be a super cool place. It was not frozen, but yeah cool enough for being eskimos' winter destination. 

At that time Chennai had a lot of Cherry plantations. Chennai being Chennai, the testing standards were high. The testers used to check the cherries for various defects.

The healthy cherries were labelled "Cherry OK". 

 Times changed, himalayas were formed. 

Gone were the cherries, gone were the fairies.

What stayed was "Cherry OK"

 

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