Submitted by glopmod t3_11wl8yf in washingtondc
Restaurants and bars making limited menus for cherry blossom tourists:
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Cherry blossoms don't taste like cherries, the fruit. Two different trees. Try to get the taste right or why bother
Submitted by glopmod t3_11wl8yf in washingtondc
Restaurants and bars making limited menus for cherry blossom tourists:
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Cherry blossoms don't taste like cherries, the fruit. Two different trees. Try to get the taste right or why bother
Someone that likes gimmick limited time cocktail menus and the taste of cherry blossom
How many cherry blossoms do you eat a year and are you also mad about Japanese Kit Kats?
some cherries are sour
The Botanical Regent of the Basin?
I'm glad you took this to reddit... this is a pretty serious issue that the district has been facing for years now and I'm tired of it.
Man, it's a break from photos of monuments and posts about crime and the homeless
candy that tastes like other candy is unamerican
if we had known this was going to be an issue, we would have banned this kind of thing when we wrote their constitution
Japanese Kit Kats, surprisingly, taste like cherry blossoms, likely because the base consumer for that product knows the difference
Plenipotentiary of Drupes.
Cherry blossoms do not taste of much at all, which seems to be why they are often served preserved in sugar or other things. Umeboshi they are not.
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Moms Demand but for accurate analogs of flavor.
Japan has hundreds of flavors of kit kats though. I wish we got more of them.
I assumed he was talking about the one that tastes like the thing this post is about.
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Stop at Hana. They get a pretty good selection throughout the year of seasonal KitKats.
Grape Skittles don't taste like grapes either
But this is because the two things sound the same, in one language.
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It would be like ordering dogwood berries and they mail you a chunk of raw dog.
This should be a crime
They're supposed to taste like purple and they do. What is "grape"?
Grape is the soft tissue around a dog butt
Ahh man, I'm actually glad to see this. I had Sakura flavoured ice cream in Japan years ago and am constantly looking for it out in the wild. This would have been an excited then let down experience.
What if I wanted just the bark from a dogwood.😁😁
The only way to get the authentic experience is to eat the blossoms straight from the trees, otherwise it's just a pale imitation
I have been let down ordering "cherry blossom" cocktails that use cherry flavor. It dominates the drink and doesn't taste anything like cherry blossom.
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I brought back a bottle of sakura liqueur to replicate for our wedding menu a few years ago. This stuff is pretty solid, compared to actual sakura liqueur, if you mix it with 1 part vodka and 1 part sugar.
cc'ing our region's breweries as well
Oh man which one is it that lets me down every year because I forget it's inaccurate
Fat fish has a cherry blossom icecream where they use sakura and vanilla and also cherry blossom sushi. I haven’t had it yet to see if they used cherry flavouring for the icecream as well or if it tastes like Sakura but it’s worth a try.
For those of you who don't know - cherry blossoms are edible and you can put them in cookies and make simple syrup with them.
They taste similar to almonds.
i didn't say it was
well that's just your opinion that it wasn't worth mentioning, personally i enjoy a good non sequitur
Yeah, way better to have 40 posts a day about crime and balaclavas.
My brother in Christ, I can all but guarantee that you're thinking of the Dominion Cherry Blossom Lager.
Thank you brother, yes I am.
Neither do Grape Nuts!
If you can’t pull the cherry blossoms directly off the tidal basin trees, store bought is fine.
Thank you for that, I was wondering!
The oldest dc residents have giraffe-like necks exactly for this purpose and the reason you don't see many of them anymore is gentrification
I enjoyed it
Eh, let people enjoy things.
That's a bit dramatic lol, they are fairly closely related to the trees that produce edible cherries.
Which, as everyone knows, tastes like Skittles
They aren't fairly close flavors at all?
One is a fruit.
The other is the flower from a fruitless tree.
People can enjoy whatever they want. That isn't at all the discussion.
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The discussion is that bars and restaurants create flavor profiles based around a piece of fruit because the tree shares the same name as a fruitless flowering tree in English.
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You can like watermelon, but that doesn't mean it tastes like tap water or musk melon, the type of fruit that most Asian flavored products base their melon flavor on.
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I was very disappointed when I learned the cherry blossoms dc was famous for was not accompanied by cherries. 🤣. It’s alright, I don’t even like cherries. It is very confusing to find out cherry blossom trees don’t produce cherries.
“Sound the same in one language”? What is that supposed to mean? Botanically, ornamental cherry trees, sweet cherry trees, and sour cherry trees are all prunus trees. Of course the blossoms don’t taste the same as the fruit, that isn’t because the trees are some totally unrelated plants that just have names that rhyme or something.
Or the flower of a fruit tree. Cherry producing cherry trees also have blossoms. That’s how fruit works.
Relax.
And those aren't the ones on the tidal basin that we have a festival for.
The flavors are different.
Thanks for coming to the TEDtalk.
People don't make the assumption that cherry blossom flavored food tastes like cherry because the trees are biologically similar.
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They make the assumption because they assume a cherry blossom flavor tastes like cherries.
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If everything cherry blossom flavored was called sakura no one would make that mistake.
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I didn't say or suggest they were totally unrelated plants.
Fair enough, it's not remotely the same as dog and dogwood though lol
giraffication
In my experience, dogwood and dogs are not remotely related.
That goes for all the pumpkin beers in the fall that are loaded up with the spices used in pumpkin pie recipes, but taste absolutely nothing like pumpkins. Not that you'd want them to.
I cannot believe people are so hung up on a funny comparison.
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I would say get a hobby but I made and have been on this thread all day so
haha, I was going to say, I'm *glad* pumpkin beer doesn't taste like actual pumpkin, though. I *want* the cherry blossom beers to taste like cherries.
They do actually! Artificial grape flavoring tastes like Concord grapes, which taste completely different from the Thompson (or “table”) grapes that are normally found in supermarkets.
Bud I'm in a meeting and playing Planet Zoo don't worry you aren't taking anything away from my day
some of the cherry blossom lattes use raspberry syrup 😝
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>a funny comparison.
No, it's a bad simile.
Please find something more significant to pick an argument about, holy fuck
Go for the schlafly, they use actual pumpkin
> and 1 part sugar
Bruh
ANYTHING CHERRY BLOSSOM FLAVORED HAS GRENADINE IN IT!!!!! IM THE BARTENDER THAT MAKES THAT DUMB SPECIALTY DRINKS FOR OUT OF TOWNERS!!!!
"yeah, so if you make alcoholic soda, it's actually pretty tasty!"
Have you had sakura liqueur?
Sakura liqueur does not.
The first time I had a concord grape I was amazed. ‘It tastes like purple!’
Just saying, one part syrup and 1 part sugar is a LOT of sugar
This is my favorite thread that I've ever seen on this sub.
The syrup I linked to isn't that sweet, and you missed the 1 part vodka. You're making a liqueur.
I mean you are following along and see that the goal is to replicate a liqueur, yes
long horse
hate it when that happens
Lamarckification.
That kind of makes sense -- cherries and almonds are related.
(That's also why whole almonds look a bit like plum pits)
It irritates me more when it's a note in a perfume and people are like, "ah yes, I smell the cherry blossom." Very few cherry blossoms have a scent, ime. There's one variety on Hains Point that smells like almonds, and that's it for what I've encountered.
what does Baked and Wired use in their cherry blossom cupcakes? cause whatever they’re doing, that’s personally my favorite cupcake of all time
just saw that city-state's sakura ale is made with actual blossoms
Wow - thank you
Buying - thank you!
they're only blossoms if the trees are in blossom, France actually
yea, that's literally what a cocktail is
Concord grapes taste like Barney turds, not Skittles.. sorry
Is that why dogs always lick their butts and smell other dog butts?
I forgot about those things. They don't taste like nut either
Some residents have racked up more than 10,000 blossoms over the years, and nobody is doing anything about it.
I think more people would be upset that cherry blossom inspired cocktails didn't taste like cherries than people who are upset they do taste like cherries. Most people see cherry and expect cherry flavor.
Remember, this is the country where the 1/3lb burger failed to the 1/4lb burger because the "1/4lb burger is bigger than the 1/3lb burger".
POV: your a mid level manager at Deloitte and passions are Reddit and cocktails
...if you're at the kind of bar with sticky floors where everything is served in disposable cups.
"I got what I asked for and am upset"
A you problem
If you order the sockeye salmon with your cherry blossom martini and are mad you got neither socks nor eyes, that's not the fault of the establishment
I'm sure restaurants will be glad to put a drink on the menu that annoys more people than it satisfies. Clearly how successful businesses are run.
Sounds like you not liking how local restaurants capitalize on the cherry blossom tourism is "a you problem".
Please don’t give tourists and others this idea or they’ll be breaking branches to try this and exposing trees to disease.
So this is why everything that’s “almond flavored” tastes like cherry flavoring to me. But cherry flavoring tastes nothing like cherries.
I think it's ignorance on the part of restaurants.
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There are also a lot of "successful businesses" that cater specifically to... serving what they say they are serving, even if someone might not have heard of it. It's why a cheap Americanized roll of sushi with spicy mayo and avocado costs a fraction of a piece of fish that the person who is upset their sakura drink doesn't taste like the wrong thing would say "ew, it's raw."
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You will notice several people share this criticism in these comments.
Fixed link for old reddit without all the tracking stuff: https://www.amazon.com/Floral-Elixir-Co-Cherry-Blossom/dp/B071CZ5G2J
I laughed unreasonably at this comment
I was going to say this sounds a lot like McCarthyism but that means something different now lol
Girl it is not that deep ☠️
Let the people have their cherry flavor.
I'm so glad to see this!! Every year I make a liter of cherry blossom simple syrup from a cherry tree in my yard because I got so sick of getting excited for cherry blossoms things, just to get "cherry-flavored" every year.
Almondy, floral, lightly fruity. Divine. Great in coffee, tea, tonic water, on your waffles, everything :)
Who cares! Just let people have fun.
You can order Monin Sakura syrup on the internet now. Cheers
This is why for St Patrick's Day all my special cocktails taste like some sweaty Irishman instead of mint. For the authenticity!
Precisely. What we have here are cherry sparkling flower trees
Rose ice cream is a Persian dessert that has a similar flavor.
I just hang around there and catch falling ones in a big hat. After a few days I have enough to cook with
Cherry blossom trees have fruit. Humans just don't eat it.
Kinda the other way around. A lot of “cherry” flavors use almond extract, very specifically most maraschino cherries that aren’t made with actual maraschino liqueur
It’s equal parts cherry and Mayim Bialik
What would you compare the taste to?
Cherry blossoms don’t even taste that good.
It's very mild, a little sweet and floral, closer to a rose hip
Monin is cherry flavored I believe
They can. That's fine.
But if I pay $15 for a sakura cocktail that tastes like cherry I am annoyed
For like the third time this isn't about people and their taste
It's about products that taste like the wrong thing, the title says restaurants, the post is about restaurants, it's restaurants
Nope. Not if you buy it from Japan, which is achievable. It's not the strongest Sakura flavor ever, for that you should probably just buy pickled Sakura instead and make your own syrup.
This would be ordering a Guiness and an Irish and getting bud light and gin
This stuff uses wild cherry extract, which tastes like cherries in my experience.
Is it sour like rose hips?
I’m trying really hard not to laugh out loud in the dark right now.
I love cherries, would be nice for restaurants and bars to have both.
There are resellers like Sugoi Mart.
It's tart but I have always had it in a syrup of some kind of candy
I compared it to a bottle of Suntory sakura I brought back and they're similar
I'm hoping the DC reddit thread doesn't attract too many tourists... but I could be wrong.
Disagree. I believe the greater expectation by people ordering "cherry blossom" is for it to taste like cherries, same as a Shamrock Shake tastes like mint and not shamrocks.
Because people don't eat shamrocks. A shamrock shock is a madeup item from an American burger place to celebrate a watered down American version of an Irish holiday.
Sakura season is specifically celebrated here, in one city, because we were gifted sakura trees from the culture known for sakura season.
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The only people expecting it to taste like cherries is people who know nothing about it.
This is the stupidest fucking comparison.
I suspect there are far more people who "know nothing" about the cherry blossom trees than people who expect authentic Sakura flavor from any "cherry blossom" drink.
Ok? Are we supposed to cater to people's ignorance?
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If you go to a restaurant and order something and get upset because it's what you ordered but you don't know what you ordered, that's a you problem.
Businesses are generally trying to make money so if most people expect "cherry blossom" drinks to taste like cherries then yes, you do cater to the ignorance. It's not customer's problem if the business loses money because people didn't like the taste of their "cherry blossom" drinks and stopped ordering them.
Suntory Sakura is made with the blossoms and leaves.
I am aware
But you're entirely guessing they expect that when ordering a specific culture's food
Honestly dude, find something else to argue about
This whole post was a stupid rant anyway lol. You seem more pressed than any of my comments were
>I have been let down ordering "cherry blossom" cocktails that use cherry flavor. It dominates the drink and doesn't taste anything like cherry blossom.
Was what you said, but now you are claiming that your homemade drink WITH cherry extract tastes like something made with cherry blossoms... but also leaves. So which does it actually taste like, the leaves or the blossoms?
"It's your fault I am arguing some dumb unqualifiable bullshit, no u"
I don't give a shit what it's made from. I care how it tastes. I compared a bunch of products. This one was the best. Reviews share the concept.
I'm not sitting here and arguing about what something you haven't tasted tastes like. You wanna come over and try it?
I've tasted cherry blossoms and leaves, and wild cherry in many forms. The first two have so little scent and taste I can hardly believe that they can flavor a beverage at all by themselves. Japan also popularized drinking "maple water", e.g. sap, that tastes just like... water.
Who the fuck calls it Sakura season though?
Absolutely no one! It's not unreasonable to admit that for most people, the words "cherry tree" are the applicable words, and that, due to common practice, people associate the word "cherry" with the flavor of "cherry".
If someone released a sakura beer and it tasted like bing cherries, by all means, hit 'em up. But no one is lining up outside their local bar for a "sakura surprise" cocktail.
A. The people who gave us the trees
B. [DC, as the biggest part of the cherry blossom festival is called Sakura Matsuri](https://nationalcherryblossomfestival.org/)
Sakura literally means cherry blossom. Cherry blossoms don't taste like cherries. The trees we have a festival for don't produce fruit.
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Tens of thousands of people are lining up downtown for a festival called Sakura Matsuri, and local restaurants serve drinks during it that taste like cherry. That is the post.
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It's been 48 hours. Please go away.
It's been 9 hours since your reply. Figured convo was still going.
More than happy to let this drop, because it's pretty obvious neither of us is going to budge. Hope you have a great spring!
You should check out Mt Desert Island in Mt Pleasant! They have a sakura ice cream right now for the cherry blossoms.
Hey FYI I went today - definitely not cherry flavoured and it was insanely delicious. I splurged for the fancy cake fish cone.
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Who are you, the cherry police? Appointed by the Chrysanthemum throne?