# Cherry Season Poll: what's your favorite cherry? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 30, 2011, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cherry-season-poll-whats-your-favorite-cherry/590816 "2011-07-30T06:08:52Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 13\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![John\_DiFool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_difool/32/19543_2.png) [@John\_DiFool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_DiFool)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cherry-season-poll-whats-your-favorite-cherry/590816/21 "2013-07-08T13:22:04Z")
The one I get to pop. ---
**Author:** ![Czarcasm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/czarcasm/32/4050_2.png) [@Czarcasm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Czarcasm)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cherry-season-poll-whats-your-favorite-cherry/590816/22 "2013-07-08T14:16:26Z")
Cherry Poptart. ---
**Author:** ![Nava](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/da6949/32.png) [@Nava](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nava)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cherry-season-poll-whats-your-favorite-cherry/590816/23 "2013-07-08T14:25:55Z")
My favorites are picotas, which are very dark and hold up well without the “tail” so you can recognize them because they’re shipped tail-less, or pintas, a variety that’s peculiar to Milagro (Navarre). I tend to look at the origin rather than the variety’s name: Jerte Valley (Cáceres) has a national reputation as\* the\* cherry place, but both Milagro and La Almunia de Doña Godina (Saragossa) grow very good ones IMO. La Almunia grows 80 different cultivars, I didn’t even know there were so many. ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 2:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cherry-season-poll-whats-your-favorite-cherry/590816/24 "2013-07-08T14:47:12Z")
I voted “Other” - **Black Tartarian** , although I’m also partial to the blushed yellow **Emperor Francis**. I quite like **Bing** , but it’s not my favourite. ---
**Author:** ![control-z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/eada6e/32.png) [@control-z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/control-z)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cherry-season-poll-whats-your-favorite-cherry/590816/25 "2013-07-08T19:44:50Z")
Red ones is about all I know. And black ones rarely. Whatever find their way into my fingers basically. ---
**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2013, 11:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cherry-season-poll-whats-your-favorite-cherry/590816/26 "2013-07-08T23:53:26Z")
The ones my mom just harvested five gallons of from a tree in a vacant lot. No idea what kind they are, but they’re _amazing_. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2013, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cherry-season-poll-whats-your-favorite-cherry/590816/27 "2013-07-09T00:03:43Z")
I’ve only ever had Bing and Rainer. I had no idea there were so many varieties. But of those two, I prefer the Rainer. They’re so pretty. ---
**Author:** ![NDP](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ndp/32/55_2.png) [@NDP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/NDP)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2014, 8:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cherry-season-poll-whats-your-favorite-cherry/590816/28 "2014-07-06T08:32:15Z")
Resurrected for the 2014 cherry season. ---
**Author:** ![dwyr](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dwyr/32/363_2.png) [@dwyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dwyr)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 12:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cherry-season-poll-whats-your-favorite-cherry/590816/29 "2014-07-07T00:11:31Z")
And I have about four pounds in the refrigerator right now. Mostly Rainier, some Bing. The stupid birds ate all the sour cherries off my trees before they were even ripe. ---
**Author:** ![SeaDragonTattoo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/df705f/32.png) [@SeaDragonTattoo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SeaDragonTattoo)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cherry-season-poll-whats-your-favorite-cherry/590816/30 "2014-07-07T02:41:11Z")
Rainier for me. Between the Rainiers and wild Alaskan salmon becoming available around the same time every year, I spend about a month making myself sick of both of them. Then do it all again next year. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cherry-season-poll-whats-your-favorite-cherry/590816/31 "2014-07-07T02:45:02Z")
Victoria cherries, because that is the tree that is in the back yard. ---
**Author:** ![Cunctator](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/43a26b/32.png) [@Cunctator](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cunctator)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 3:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cherry-season-poll-whats-your-favorite-cherry/590816/32 "2014-07-07T03:21:00Z")
I voted \*Other \*because it’s not summer here and I don’t like cherries anyway. ---
**Author:** ![ZenBeam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/3ab097/32.png) [@ZenBeam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZenBeam)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cherry-season-poll-whats-your-favorite-cherry/590816/33 "2014-07-07T23:49:28Z")
> [@wolfman](#): > > To be honest I have no idea what kind of cherries I prefer. I just stop by one of the roadside stands on my way home from traverse city and ask the little old lady which are the best right then. This. My wife says she’s pretty sure they’re Bing. Her favorite cherry is the Montmorency, because she makes pies out of them. We have a (small) cherry tree in our backyard, that’s good for a couple pies a season. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cherry-season-poll-whats-your-favorite-cherry/590816.md?page=1)