Is it because it's picked unripe so it doesn't spoil in transit? I'll bet for people who live in Chile the red cherries they get locally taste great.

Most likely?

I appreciate how food tastes, and cherries in the winter are expensive and tasteless. Summer cherries are the complete opposite, specially if you live in a state where they produce them locally. In WA they invented their own hybrid cherry, the Rainier, which is also really good but you can only get during a short period of time.

The difference is today we eat bland cherries around the year except for a couple of weeks when you get fresh local ones.

You don't spend half of the year remembering the previous season's cherries waiting for the next time you can taste them.

I mean foodies notice the difference today. But a lot what made the various foods great in old times for /everyone/ was having to wait for it.

Like half of the fun of vacations is waiting for them. If you can live at The beach around the year it stops being special.

> The difference is today we eat bland cherries around the year except for a couple of weeks when you get fresh local ones.

Speak for yourself. A lot of people don't want to take part in consumerism and only buy (or just not buy) fruits, when it is their time and don't buy stuff from more than 200km away out of principle.

I'm one of those. But it's not out of principle, it's because they taste much better, I'm currently eating WA pears from costco as it's the season and have been incredibly good and consistent.

> You don't spend half of the year remembering the previous season's cherries waiting for the next time you can taste them.

I do that, I miss them