# Life is, literally, a bowl of cherries right now **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 12, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120 "2017-07-12T19:28:50Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/1 "2017-07-12T19:28:50Z")
Yep, I’m eating a bowl of cherries. Not a huge bowl, but a good sized one. Mine are bing, local in CA, but the season is about over. Nicely tart, with that flavor that can only be described as “cherry”. If I had some vanilla ice cream, I might cut some cherries up and mix them in. Life is pretty damn good when it’s a bowl of cherries! Anyone else up for sharing the experience? Pull up a chair, get yourself a bowl of cherries, and tell us about it. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 7:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/2 "2017-07-12T19:32:08Z")
I am loving cherries right now, too! I can’t stop eating them. They are crazy cheap at the moment, too. There seems to be fruit stand on every corner. Can’t. Get. Enough. My little cherry tree only produced 3 cherries this year (its only a year old). The birds got two and I got one. Best cherry I ever had. ---
**Author:** ![Aspenglow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aspenglow/32/76_2.png) [@Aspenglow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aspenglow)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 7:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/3 "2017-07-12T19:43:20Z")
Aren’t they lovely? Rainiers here. I love eating them plain, but I made a clafoutis, too. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![August\_West](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/august_west/32/18069_2.png) [@August\_West](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/August_West)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 7:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/4 "2017-07-12T19:59:50Z")
We just got our first big crop of cherries last week from a fairly new cherry tree. Here in Wisconsin, we grow sour (pie) cherries and so I made a quick cherry crisp. I don’t know what I did wrong, but it turned into cherry soup! My 4 year old son decided to try some anyway (it’s _his_ cherry tree), and pronounced it a “delicious failure!” 😃 We ended up spooning it on top of vanilla ice cream and it was great! ---
**Author:** ![Robot\_Arm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robot_arm/32/18280_2.png) [@Robot\_Arm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Robot_Arm)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 8:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/5 "2017-07-12T20:08:12Z")
> [@August\_West](#): > > We just got our first big crop of cherries last week from a fairly new cherry tree. > Here in Wisconsin, we grow sour (pie) cherries and so I made a quick cherry crisp. I don’t know what I did wrong, but it turned into cherry soup! Yeah, those are the cherries I’m waiting for. Some years I can find them in the stores here, some years not. If I ever have my own place, one thing I’d like is a few sour cherry trees. I had a similar problem with my first attempts at cherry pie. There are a few things I do now to manage the liquid level in the filling. ---
**Author:** ![TriPolar](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tripolar/32/3008_2.png) [@TriPolar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TriPolar)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/6 "2017-07-12T20:53:55Z")
Be careful. Eating cherries and ice cream killed Zachary Taylor. Or maybe the arsenic did it, but why take a chance? ---
**Author:** ![IvoryTowerDenizen](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ivorytowerdenizen/32/17937_2.png) [@IvoryTowerDenizen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/IvoryTowerDenizen)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 9:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/7 "2017-07-12T21:12:13Z")
Cherries are one of only a couple of foods I will eat myself sick on. They are so good right now. ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 9:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/8 "2017-07-12T21:16:22Z")
My local orchard may be about played out. I’ll have to check. If so, I can always get Rainiers from other places, but they’ll never be as good as those from Andy’s. Meanwhile, on to nectarines, pluots, peaches, and plums! ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 9:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/9 "2017-07-12T21:42:17Z")
Bings, Raniers and another variety I can’t remember (large, sweet, but a bit soft) are all in season right now. There are also apricots and peaches showing up. We bought a flat of marionberries today to make jam. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/10 "2017-07-12T21:45:31Z")
Get this, my brother who is in his mid 50s had never had a cherry before Sunday. ---
**Author:** ![Baron\_Greenback](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/baron_greenback/32/48_2.png) [@Baron\_Greenback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baron_Greenback)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 10:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/11 "2017-07-12T22:06:00Z")
Is there a bigger difference in the culinary world between the taste of an actual cherry fruit and the mishmash of esters and whatever that makes up “cherry flavour”. I think not, although banana runs it close. ---
**Author:** ![Patx2](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/73ab20/32.png) [@Patx2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Patx2)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/12 "2017-07-12T22:30:28Z")
We just had some last week, they were delicious! I wish I had thought to get some ice cream! ---
**Author:** ![John\_Mace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/john_mace/32/185_2.png) [@John\_Mace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/John_Mace)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/13 "2017-07-12T23:10:22Z")
> [@teela\_brown](#): > > Meanwhile, on to nectarines, pluots, peaches, and plums! I have a cherry tree, but it must be a male. It was supposed to be female, but I don’t get any cherries. There are plenty of cherry trees in my neighborhood, so I think ample opportunity for some sexy time, cherry style. I also have a Santa Rosa plum tree, and it produces wonderful fruit. Alas, the animals usually get most of it and this year they got ALL of it. Not a single plum for me. Some years I would get dozens. They are/were wonderful. Not quite cherry wonderful, but about the next best thing. ---
**Author:** ![Marci\_Al](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@Marci\_Al](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Marci_Al)\ **Post date:** [July 12, 2017, 11:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/14 "2017-07-12T23:14:20Z")
Really? I’d rather “Sing Sing Sing.” ---
**Author:** ![Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/qadgop_the_mercotan/32/83_2.png) [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qadgop_the_Mercotan)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/15 "2017-07-13T00:28:07Z")
We’re consuming mass quantities of cherries in Mercotan Manor lately. 'Tis the season, after all. And we do love them. Fresh, dried, with strawberries or accompanying rhubarb in a pie. As a syrup over chocolate ice cream. Pitted and chopped and sprinkled over vanilla. But mostly just fresh, spitting out the pits afterwards. ---
**Author:** ![wolfman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/a8b319/32.png) [@wolfman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolfman)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/16 "2017-07-13T01:16:35Z")
> [@Rhiannon8404](#): > > I am loving cherries right now, too! I can’t stop eating them. They are crazy cheap at the moment, too. There seems to be fruit stand on every corner. Can’t. Get. Enough. > > My little cherry tree only produced 3 cherries this year (its only a year old). The birds got two and I got one. Best cherry I ever had. I had a couple dozen cherries this year, but the stupid Blue Jays got them all as soon as they barely started turning pink. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/17 "2017-07-13T02:19:38Z")
I am planning to buy some sour cherries tomorrow to make a pie. A pie made with sour cherries is just DIVINE, you will never empty out a can of pink sludge pie filling ever again…But I do love the black sweet cherries. Is it true cherries or cherry juice contain something that can make one sleepy? I haven’t noticed myself, but that’s what I read someplace. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 4:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/18 "2017-07-13T04:47:42Z")
> [@John\_Mace](#): > > I have a cherry tree, but it must be a male. It was supposed to be female, but I don’t get any cherries. There are plenty of cherry trees in my neighborhood, so I think ample opportunity for some sexy time, cherry style. > > I also have a Santa Rosa plum tree, and it produces wonderful fruit. Alas, the animals usually get most of it and this year they got ALL of it. Not a single plum for me. Some years I would get dozens. They are/were wonderful. Not quite cherry wonderful, but about the next best thing. Cherry trees have no gender. However, some varieties need a pollenator variety nearby. Bings being one of those. You may not have the right pollenator variety in your neighborhood, or maybe something is eating your cherries. ---
**Author:** ![Ulfreida](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ulfreida/32/8014_2.png) [@Ulfreida](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ulfreida)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 4:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/19 "2017-07-13T04:51:28Z")
I love cherries and will binge on them until I am sorry. For awhile. Then I forget. I guess it’s a good thing they have such a short season. However life cannot literally be a bowl of cherries. Even if you have a literal bowl of cherries in front of you, that’s going to have to stay a metaphor. Just the way “literally” works. Or, dammit, should. ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [July 13, 2017, 1:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/life-is-literally-a-bowl-of-cherries-right-now/791120/20 "2017-07-13T13:13:09Z")
> [@Ulfreida](#): > > However life cannot literally be a bowl of cherries. Even if you have a literal bowl of cherries in front of you, that’s going to have to stay a metaphor. Just the way “literally” works. Or, dammit, should. Literally, your life would be a half bowl of cherries and a half bowl of pits and stems.