I'm going Aldi tomorrow, so they're good?

You bet, but so were the ones I bought today from Winn Dixie.
I bet they all come from the same Colon-Blow farms

Slightly off topic, but maybe you cherry fans can help me.

Cherry pie is one of my favorites, but - oddly - fresh cherries have pretty much no flavor to me. This is true of Ranier as well as the “regular” cherries. What’s up with that?

I bought some Morello cherries in glass jars from Lidl and from Aldi recently just to try them. The Lidl ones were tasty, but the Aldi ones were not much more flavorful than fresh. Doesn’t make any sense to me.

The "Fresh cherries" are picked way too early, to insure better transport stability, to be of much edible use. If you ate fresh cherries picked and eaten at peak ripeness, you'd find plenty of delicious flavo(u)r.

Or you can do what my wife has me do: Buy a few, normally 3, at a time towards the greenish side. By the third day, it is perfectly ripe. She averages one banana a day, 1/2 in the morning, 1/2 at lunch.

If they get too ripe, you can always make banana bread or muffins.

Thanks!

By the way, Non-organic Cherries have been on sale here for $2.49-2.99/lb this week.

I returned to Gus’ today - $9.99/lb for organic USA cherries.
$6.99/lb for california cherries.

I got the organic but did get conventional for some produce that wasn’t available in organic.

Is Gus' some kind of fancy pants high end market? $6.99 for non organic sounds like robbery. Even WF was cheaper than that & I think they are usually pricey.

I don't think I would pay that much for cherries, organic or not.

it’s a local 50++ year-old grocery chain - maybe 4 locations in sf? I think their Mexico heirloom tomatoes were $5.49/lb.
their small topo Chicos are $10.80 for a box of a dozen bottles. It’s a mile or two from home so mega bonus for me, which is why I’ll go there. But recall that Darth Yeti also mentioned $9.99 for organic cherries at their local supermarket which only has one location.

I did feel sticker shock at wild local salmon - $33.99/lb. I can buy their farmed Scottish salmon at $17.99/lb which I would do if there was no other option.

Costco on Sat had Organic Cherries for $6.99 and reg cherries at $4.99.

this is a really good deal. I keep making excuses for avoiding Costco in person. I do have a list...
thanks for the tip!

Up to $1.99 / lb in Southern California.

David

Blah. No organic cherries at the grocery today and we ran out so I sigh-bought california cherries at $5.99/lb. blah. My spouse will eat them but I’ll eschew them. Chances are high that 1/3 to 1/2 of the bag will be tossed after I find organic cherries.

well maybe I can freeze the cherries and then bake them instead of dried cherries into scones.

$3.49 at Monterey Market last Thursday - very good. That's probably it for the local season. (They are "organic enough" ;) )