Yeah, I live in England myself and these cherries surprised me too. They are considered a bit early here too though.
As I travel around Eastern Europe more, the term becomes almost meaningless to me. The countries it is supposed to include are really different and share very little by now. Moldova would be better described as ex-USSR I guess. I understand that there has always been quite a difference between the Eastern European countries which were part of the Soviet Union and those that weren't (even though they were "communist" too). So Moldova and Ukraine for example have a lot in common (even though Ukraine is slavic and Moldova is not) and much more so than Ukraine or Moldova have in common with, say Romania or Poland, which were part of the "commi bloc" but still not part of the SU.
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Date: 2016-05-08 10:29 am (UTC)As I travel around Eastern Europe more, the term becomes almost meaningless to me. The countries it is supposed to include are really different and share very little by now. Moldova would be better described as ex-USSR I guess. I understand that there has always been quite a difference between the Eastern European countries which were part of the Soviet Union and those that weren't (even though they were "communist" too). So Moldova and Ukraine for example have a lot in common (even though Ukraine is slavic and Moldova is not) and much more so than Ukraine or Moldova have in common with, say Romania or Poland, which were part of the "commi bloc" but still not part of the SU.