ok, so a HUGE fan of cherry kool-aid, cherry slurpees, cherry popsicles, cherry jell-o, and well, anything "cherry/red" flavor generally, i am not so much a fan of the actual cherry itself.
unless we're talking rainier cherries, which are the absolute cherry bomb of cherries.
rainier cherries are here and gone in the blink of an eye; they make their appearance 3rd or so week of june and are completely MIA by mid-to-end of july.
rainier cherries, known by their distinctive dual coloring of red and yellow, sometimes looking like a sunset over the beach when the 2 colors blend together in a seamless lusciousness. they are totally, superbly sweet, unlike the traditional bing cherry that is usually a tad bitter as well as THE cherry that comes to mind for most people. rainier cherries are like no other - creamy sweetness, plump juicy taste, and on the downside, more expensive than the bing, being that their window of opportunity is tiny-tiny. the rainier cherry is the cherry child of the again, traditional bing cherry and the van culitivar, making it's debut in 1952.
so get 'em while they're here LWS'ers, only a little while left before we're left wanting and waiting until next summer's crop of rainiers to hit stores.
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