This is my morning’s ration of cherries. It will take me approximately 78.6 seconds to eat them all.I downed a pound of index cherries from Tonnemaker Family Orchard’s stand at the Columbia City Market last week so quickly that when I saw the Tonnemaker booth at the West Seattle Farmers Market yesterday I bought two pounds, even though they were chelans (or chinooks? Now I can’t remember). This batch is not quite as spectacular as the indexes, but they’re sweet and firm, with a slight cinnamon cast to their flavor. In fact, in the time it took me to type the last paragraph, half of them have disappeared.So, I’m still a little new to the Northwest, and I need to know from long-timers . . . how many cherries can I eat in one sitting without setting off, um, gastric problems? Because I’m so relieved that the season has finally arrived that I feel a major food obsession taking hold.
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