Look, if you’re making a pie, you want Michigan. If you’re making a fruit salad that makes you look fancy, you want Washington. But if you ask me, the real winner is the person eating the cherries. Because you can just drive to any grocery store, buy a bag of cherries that traveled 2,000 miles, and complain about how expensive they are.
But next time you pop a cherry in your mouth—tart or sweet—do a tiny victory dance for the states that grew it. Michigan and Washington are the cherry-powerhouses, locked in a delicious, sticky rivalry. And California? It’ll be okay. It has avocados.
Now go enjoy a cherry. Just don’t eat the pit. That’s not a snack—that’s a cyanide surprise.
