Very true, but as a humble cook, if the recipe book for Christmas Cake says glacé cherries, my childhood memories tell me ‘red’!
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Why Glacé cherries? It’s a century old method used to preserve cherries. The huge amount of sugar in them is unhealthy, but then most methods of preserving food before refrigeration are unhealthy: just think of fish and meat preserved with salt.
Most of us just use a handful of red cherries in the mix to make that cake look Christmassy, or place them on top of a cake to transform it into a Birthday Gateau!
Yes, I agree @Malabar, they need to be cherry-red! 
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