# Will this be a good year for cherries?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-this-be-a-good-year-for-cherries/686593>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [April 21, 2014, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-this-be-a-good-year-for-cherries/686593 "2014-04-21T07:55:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [April 21, 2014, 7:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-this-be-a-good-year-for-cherries/686593/1 "2014-04-21T07:55:21Z")

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I’d like to make a cherry pie this summer, perhaps more than one, but last year and the year before, cherries were hard to find, more expensive, or both. There was a frost or a blight or something. Is there any way of knowing how this year’s crop might/will turn out?

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**Author:** ![Rilchiam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/2bfe46/32.png) [@Rilchiam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rilchiam)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/will-this-be-a-good-year-for-cherries/686593/2 "2014-04-24T23:03:11Z")

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Pretend I made some clever remark about cherries…