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.

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.

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 compared it to a bottle of Suntory sakura I brought back and they're similar

I am unsure how that is achievable. It's not legal to ship from Amazon.jp. It also isn't currently available.

This would be ordering a Guiness and an Irish and getting bud light and gin

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.

"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

1. You're
2. I wish I was a mid level manager
3. I fucking hate Reddit
4. I do like cocktails tho

I mean you are following along and see that the goal is to replicate a liqueur, yes

The syrup I linked to isn't that sweet, and you missed the 1 part vodka. You're making a liqueur.

Sakura liqueur does not.

Have you had sakura liqueur?

Please find something more significant to pick an argument about, holy fuck

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

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.

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 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.

Thank you brother, yes I am.

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

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.

https://www.amazon.com/Floral-Elixir-Co-Cherry-Blossom/dp/B071CZ5G2J/ref=sr_1_1?keywords=cherry+blossom+syrup&qid=1679328034&s=grocery&sprefix=cherry+blossom+%2Cgrocery%2C125&sr=1-1

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.

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.

Japanese Kit Kats, surprisingly, taste like cherry blossoms, likely because the base consumer for that product knows the difference