This time of year is the very popular cherry season around here.  Lineups of cars and buses of people coming from Toronto and elsewhere for pick your own cherries.  
Figs are strangers in this part of the world.  No one notices my fig trees as they speed by hurrying to pick and stuff their faces with cherries.

Thought I would see how eating figs fares in comparison to cherries. 

I have several cherry trees so lots of cherries to eat and compare but only a few brebas for now 1 U. Ischia Green, 1 Melanzana long (Melanzana Calabrese) and 1 Sal Corleone.

First a bowl of cherries ready for eating and comparing.

 
They were nice no wonder people can't wait for this time of year.

Now for the figs;

U. Ischia Green

 
Not very big but nice flavour intense and very sweet.

Now the Melanzana
 
It was much smaller than I had expected but it is only last year's cutting so maybe it will get bigger as it grows.
The flavour was incredible.  Never tasted anything like it was very sweet with a caramel jammy taste and a little seed crunch.

Sal Corleone
 
unfortunately something got to the eye so I cut that part out.  First taste resembled a cherry with a worm but when I ate the unspoiled part it was nice sweet and tasted of melon little seed crunch. 
 
All in all the cherries were nice sweet and refreshing. 

Unquestionably in my mind the figs won hands down as far as sweetness and complex flavours. 
Considering these figs were brebas of 1 yr old trees I was impressed and can't wait for more figs to ripen!

Congrats those look delicious.......I like your synopsis...

Pino, Ischia Green is supposed to be red inside. And breba are rare. I have one on my tree right now.

Ischia Green Main Crop

Pino. Glad to see you get breba from your ischia. Think tge breba like cooler environment. Mine always drop. People here in the forum that i taljed to in California get breba too. I got to admit. Those cherries look good. But they are less sweet then figs. And mostly cherries tast like cheeies. Figs have a broad range of flavor spectrum. Nice thread and pics. Some of us here are going to the lsu fig feild day on the 11th. May get you a persimmon cutting lol

I like them both but the figs will def have more flavor and a much more of an exotic fruit.  i have been looking for a good source for cherry tree cuttings, do you know anyone that has them?

Thanks everyone for posting! 
This is one of the great things of this forum that we get to share information and advance our fig knowledge.  Looks like we agree that cherries are nice but figs are diverse and complex not just in their sex life but countless tastes. 

Rafael,  I would love to see a photo of your IG breba and leaves.  I will add a IG leaf photo to the post. 
My Ischia plant came from a popular source that other F4F members use.  Who knows maybe I got sent a different plant very nice fig none the less.
 Unfortunately I managed to kill some ischia cuttings that another generous member gave me or else I could compare.

There a couple of figlets on this plant so hope to see how the figs looks later in the summer.   
   
Richie
That's a great way to put it!  Cherries are cherries but figs have such a broad range of flavour profiles... 
By the way I have never been able to get persimmon cuttings to root and my persimmon grafts have failed also.  I am resolved to buying a nice kaki tree. 

Joshua
Cherry trees are easy to graft are there not cherry trees growing near you for a scion or 2?   

What a nice comparison. Thanks for sharing Pino. Your figs and cherries look awesome although I have to agree with Rafael on the I G fig. The leaf looks correct though.

Rafael that is beautiful fig.

Thanks Chris.
On their website they list IG as having red flesh.  They have several other figs that seem to describe this one.
I'll follow up with them and see if I can get the correct ID on this fig it is too nice to go nameless. 

Super, Pino!  
I can't believe you are already getting figs to ripe up there!  I am still waiting for anything to ripe here, and from what I see, it will be my Dark Portugal, in perhaps a couple of weeks....  I cannnottt waiiit any looooonger!!!!!

Thanks for sharing!!!!

Pino,
It may or may not be, but just looking at the fruit alone for your "GI" made me think it looks like Pauly's Jack Lilly.

Pino,
Congratulations on your brebas.
Nice article.
Not far away from you, with bit harsher climate (Hamilton Mountain) that should not be too impactful for potted fig culture, I have picked first "breba" on one "early white" variety on June 21. These were fruits from last fall that overwintered on the tree and continued to grow.
A couple of days ago the same type of fruit was ripe on VdB, And white Paradiso is getting ready in a day or so.
Taste wise they did not compare to the main fruit of the same variety.
Your Melanzana looks amazing.
You mentioned the crunch of seeds.
How did they develop without polnation?
Damir
 

Jerry
These figs are in pots so I have been doing the fig shuffle with them during frosts and cold spells.  I had a couple of brebas in June as well but they didn't ripen properly.  Hang in there they will ripen for you soon.  I also can't wait for my next ripe fig!

Calvin
I see the resemblance to LSU Jack Lilly will be able to tell a it better when the main crop ripens.  Thanks

Damir,
Sounds like your collection is growing nicely and you are reaping the tasty benefits!
The Melanzana fig was quite small but it was packed with flavour.  There was a little seed crunch.  Many of my other common figs have seeds but of course they would not be pollinated so the seeds would be hollow.

That green figs looks like White Marseilles to me!  It's definately not Green Ischia.

Thanks Dennis. 
I sent the photos to the place I got the Green Ischia from and asked them if they may have sent one of their other figs y mistake and if they can identify it.  I will see what they say and I will update the post.

Joshua, I think it is very very difficult if not impossible to root dormant/lignified cherry cuttings even with rooting hormones. 
You may have some luck if you try rooting green actively growing cherry shoots around blossom time using misting and rooting hormones but still difficult.

Much easier if you can find a wild cherry seedling growing it would then be easy to graft the variety you want.