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.

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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.

They aren't fairly close flavors at all?

One is a fruit.

The other is the flower from a fruitless tree.

Which, as everyone knows, tastes like Skittles

That's a bit dramatic lol, they are fairly closely related to the trees that produce edible cherries.

Eh, let people enjoy things.

The cop that shot the kid wasn't in any danger:

>The incident began when D.C. police received a call about a suspicious vehicle, and officers found the car parked with the engine running, according to a D.C. police spokesman. The driver appeared to be asleep or nodding off, the spokesman said. The officers ran the tags and determined the vehicle was stolen, according to the spokesman, and called for backup.

>Two Park Police officers responded to the call near 34th and Baker streets NE, said Park Police spokesman Thomas Twiname. They approached the car, and one of them got into the back seat, at which point the driver appeared to wake up and hit the accelerator, the D.C. police spokesman said.

>The officer was “trapped in the vehicle,” Twiname said, and unable to escape. The officer gave commands to stop and then discharged a firearm, Twiname said. The driver was pronounced dead at the scene.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/03/18/park-police-shooting-dc/

There could be justification for the shooting if the other officer was endangered by being "dragged" by the vehicle, but we won't really know until the FOIA request forces them to release the body cam footage.

Unfortunately, even if that officer was "dragged" the cops still could have handled it better (e.g. by not jumping into the backseat unannounced, where the driver may have no idea who you are and -understandably- started to drive away).

I enjoyed it

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

Thank you for that, I was wondering!

If you can’t pull the cherry blossoms directly off the tidal basin trees, store bought is fine.

Neither do Grape Nuts!

Thank you brother, yes I am.

My brother in Christ, I can all but guarantee that you're thinking of the Dominion Cherry Blossom Lager.

Well only because it’s just one small mistake!! /s

Yeah, way better to have 40 posts a day about crime and balaclavas.

well that's just your opinion that it wasn't worth mentioning, personally i enjoy a good non sequitur

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i didn't say it was

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.

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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.

Oh man which one is it that lets me down every year because I forget it's inaccurate

cc'ing our region's breweries as well