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Ab out the price of cherries

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catgirl1976 · 17/05/2015 13:37

In the supermarket with DS (3)

He says "May I have some cherries"

I say yes and pick a punnet up and then clock the price. £7!!! for a small punnet of normal cherries!

Is there a shortage? Have I missed something or AIBU and this is normal and cherries are now only eaten by city bankers and Russian oligarchs?

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PtolemysNeedle · 17/05/2015 14:03

I don't buy supermarket cherries anymore as the price is so ludicrous. It's just too much to pay when there's a chance they might not be as nice as they could be. Markets are the way forward for price and taste.

IsadoraQuagmire · 17/05/2015 14:04

That's a crazy price (and cherries are my absolute favorite food too!) Sad

RiskManagement · 17/05/2015 14:05

Have your trees got cherries on now Allinson? I suspect not because it must be a bit early. Buying fruit out of season is always expensive.

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catgirl1976 · 17/05/2015 14:05

I wish we had a market. I used to live in Norwich and I miss that market so much!

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CaTsMaMmA · 17/05/2015 14:06

i think Lidl were about the best priced for them last year, but it is still early so haven't seen them in there yet.

MehsMum · 17/05/2015 14:06

One reason they cost a lot is because they are a pita to pick.
This is the voice of bitter experience. I fell off a ladder when fruit picking as a student and a punched a nice hole in my leg.

Suzietastic · 17/05/2015 14:06

when I worked for M&S 20 years ago we were selling loose cherries for £14 per pound at one stage. people kept bringing them back for refunds after they had been charged a fortune at the checkout.

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catgirl1976 · 17/05/2015 14:08

I am so glad I noticed before I bought them and spent the rest of the day trying to work out why my basket of shopping had cost so much :)

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Theimpossiblegirl · 17/05/2015 14:08

They always cost a lot more at the start of the season, as do strawberries. They'll go down.

LavenderRain · 17/05/2015 14:08

I think they were £5 kilo in lidl last year and they were lovely.....they did go off quickly tho. Good excuse to eat lots!!

RiskManagement · 17/05/2015 14:09

Yes, they were good in Lidl last year. Only for a few weeks though.....while they were in season.

gerbo · 17/05/2015 14:09

Couple of years ago I picked up cherries in marks and had to, embarrassingly, ask the check out woman to put them back when the price rang up at £5.50 or something....I nearly fainted!! For a bag the size of a normal bag of grapes - crazy.

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catgirl1976 · 17/05/2015 14:09

I'll keep my eye out in Lidl. I really want some now, but not as much as I want to not go bankrupt

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JassyRadlett · 17/05/2015 14:14

Cherries are a right bastard to grow. They're very delicate and very susceptible to weather and pests. They need to be picked very carefully and don't ripen once picked so perish quickly. And the season is insanely short.

Easy to understand why farmers might go for something a bit more certain and profitable instead.

They're probably fairly priced in the circumstances.

LyingWitchInTheWardrobe2726 · 17/05/2015 14:16

Completely irrelevant, I know, but last year, Aldi had packs of 'Mango Grapes' and they were utterly delicious. I hope they have them again this Summer, they really did taste of mangoes but were grapes... Shock

mrsdavidbowie · 17/05/2015 14:19

£3 a pound in the local market. They were gorgeous

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catgirl1976 · 17/05/2015 14:19

Ooh I want mango grapes now! They sound amazing.

Imagine mango grape wine.............

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Jux · 17/05/2015 14:22

Cherries have always been expensive. As JassyRadlett explained, there is a very good reason for it. Your best bet is to grow a tree yourself.

They'll be a bit cheaper further into the season (not much though). They're a luxury item.

Jux · 17/05/2015 14:26

Allinson, when my mum was a child they had a large cherry tree in the garden. Through the season, she and her siblings would be given 10 minutes up the tree instead of pudding Grin

Nettletheelf · 17/05/2015 14:36

If you really want a shock, check out the price of the yellow, American cherries with the pink blush, which the posher supermarkets stock in the summer.

They are gorgeous, but terrifyingly expensive. I've noticed that they are harder to get hold of, probably because of the number of people fainting at the till!

Nettletheelf · 17/05/2015 14:36

Rainier cherries, they are called.

londonrach · 17/05/2015 14:36

Jux love that image...dc you only allowed 10 minutes on the tree to eat as much cherries as you can...Grin

BitOutOfPractice · 17/05/2015 14:40

They are shockingly dear aren't they? Sainsburys do savers cherries which are slightly less eye wateringly expensive

flora717 · 17/05/2015 14:42

Oh yes, i have memories of being sent up the cherry tree to get enough for pudding! (Though for everyone at the table with soft goats cheese - really good!)

Allinson2014 · 17/05/2015 14:44

No cherries as yet. Well they're there but not ripe yet. The minute they ripen the birds have the lot anyway. Maybe that's why they're so expensive!