They're here! They're here! [cherries]

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Took a 2.5 mile (round trip) walk to my local grocery store to get some exercise and pick up some cash and milk.

Walked in the door, glanced over at the fruit.

:eek:

Ra…rain…Rainier Cherries?!?!?!?! :eek::eek::eek:

WOOHOOOOOO!!!

Damn! I remember driving around the second week of June last year looking for the damned things without success.

Will be doing my favorite summer time activity* this weekend, and now I have the pleasure of my favorite snack pack accompaniment. Red Plums, Rainier Cherries, Dark Chocolate, Cherry Coke (now the Zero variety, but whatever).

  • Driving around out in the country, sunroof open, windows down, stereo set to liquify…
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Between May-June I tend to make myself sick between Rainier cherries and wild caught Alaskan salmon. My pocketbook also becomes very light. And yeah, both seemed to be available only for about two weeks last year.

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Who, the mods to edit the thread title? :wink:

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I thought this was about the new phone books.

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Or someone left the TV on static again.

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That’s the sort of spontaneous publicity that MAKES people.

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Mmmm, I LOVE Rainer Cherries as well. And banana potatoes, which are hard to find here as well. Yum summer fruits and veggies!

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So NOT fair, where are you??? I will pay a king’s ransom for them!!

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I grew up in Oregon and had a black cherry tree in the yard. I’d gorge myself on those. Here in Boston I just have to make do. Like strawberries - they aren’t the same out here in Boston.

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I was wandering about that too. Here in Washington, we don’t get them until around July.

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My grandfather is a pretty serious gardener. I think I spent half my childhood summers halfway up a tree, stuffing cherries in my mouth.

And sweet peas, tomatoes, sweet corn…mmm summer.

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We have 'em here in Texas, too. And they always start at five or six bucks a pound.

Doesn’t stop me from buying the first bag of the season, though.

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My 25-year old daughter asked me what the best fruits are. The answer is of course cherries (Ranier’s the best but most sweet cherries are good), followed by fresh freestone peaches. Of course she hates both - I don’t know why she’s so weird.

Black sweet cherries are $4.99 here (Minnesota); Ranier is $6.99 a pound.

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I have a summertime obsession with peaches, preferably freestone yellow ones. And after all those years of eating supermarket peaches, I developed a preference for the slightly under-ripe firm ones. But cherries are good too. And plums are usually available after the peaches disappear.

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That’s where I’m at and that’s what I paid. Will probably be buying a second bag by Sunday.

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Love cherries, I’ll grab a couple handfuls every grocery store run, even if they are $5.99 a pound. (
The farmers market sells the translucent sour cherries which are exquisite to bake things with. Almost impossible to find a place to park and they get all bruised on the way home, but nothing like them.)

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Yay!! Got mine today at Safeway–$5.99/lb!! Bought 4 lbs., ate probably an entire pound while I washed them!!

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I’ve been buying lovely red sweet cherries for over a week now and will continue to do so regardless of price until I can’t find any more. I eat some every day. I have two sour cherry trees in my back yard but alas, they haven’t been doing too well the past couple of years. When I was a child I asked my mother to make cherry pie for all my birthdays.

I kind of like cherries.

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My wife loves black cherries.

Saw them today for the first time this season. Bought her a bag for $3.98 a pound @ Winco.

I live in Washington State.

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I should’ve distinguished between cherries grown locally in Washington (which usually don’t start appearing in stores until late June at the earliest) and cherries grown in California (which are now for sale for where I am). I was at the store today and saw Bings for sale. Didn’t get any though.