My excuse for not eating much fruit in Japan is the cost, not that it’s all this expensive but these gift fruit baskets coming in at about $100 and $80 each is a bit over the top in my opinion.
These single melons on the top row for $50 bucks a pop would want to taste a treat at that price. $5 for the guys down the bottom is much more like it.
But the one that got me was this Watermelon and it’s triangular shape, not to mention the price …
… over $600 despite it’s beaten up condition !
At those prices, I think i’ll just go to Quarter Pounder Instead.
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I’ll stick with the food that once roamed the green fields thanks, however someone did tell me a bout a great recipie with those expensive melons that I am yet to try… Maybe my fruit days aren’t over just yet.
Freaking ridiculous!!
60,000 would be much better spent romancing a girl right outta her panties
Agreed ^^
You’re being a little kind with the exchange rate, Duck. Y60,000 is gonna buy you closer to A$950 these days.
You need to be up earlier than that Motts . . An undefined currency will refer to USD more often than not, which at the moment is 1:1
I check the AU:Yen obsessively and am very happy with it at the moment, just need it to be sitting around 62cents this time next week and it’s happy days !
Only in Japan would someone pay that much for fruit!??!? I will stick with the Mikans and whatever else is priced reasonably or whatever my in-laws give us
Have you been to Quarter Pounder yet? V and I went to the one on Omotosando last weekend, it was good, just like a McDonalds burger though. I wouldn’t be surprised if McDonalds owned QP, actually.
Yes, both, the Shibuya store a few days after it opened and i “happened” to be in Harajuku last weekend and “happened” to walk past the Omotesando store where i ended up getting a double. Nothing at all convenient about the store but worth it when i got the burger.
And McDonalds DO own Quarter Pounder …. it was meant to be a big viral store opening shrouded in secrecy kinda thing … both stores were covered up in the days leading up to it and “guarded” by several blonde chicks. They were trying to recreate the Krispy Kreme hysteria …. the lines have already dispersed.
Wow! That is some expensive fruit! They better taste good. Anyway, Japan is known for being expensive so I wouldn’t be surprised. This got me thinking though about Korean grapes, if you get a chance you need to try them once in your lifetime. They are the best grapes I have ever tasted, and once I start eating them I can’t stop until they are all gone. They are that addictive.
I’m extremely curious whether or not anyone ended up buying that beat-up, triangular watermelon. For $600. Yeesh…
Will slide by later this week and satisfy your curiosity mate.
I’d buy that triangular watermelon for 6 bills just to drop it from the top of my apartment building onto these two drunk douchebags that keep coming home at 4 in the morning, yelling and screaming.
Pity you mate, i left those days behind me when i came to Japan …. if there’s ONE thing i love , that’s being able to sleep when i want to, not when the neighbors let me.
While super expensive, that watermelon is shaped very funny. reminds of the simpson’s episode where they go to japan
Those prices are amaizing, I havn’t eaten much fruit in Japan but how do you think the fruit you have eaten there compares to the cheaper Australian fruits? The most outragous fruit prices I have seen here so far have only been Bananas back when the cyclone whiped out the banana feilds in Aus and generaly Mangoes at $3.50 each.When I first learned that in Japan people buy Mellons for prices over 10000yen I was shocked!Billy
Can’t say I ever paid attention to the price in Australia, i know the bananas went through the roof a few years back …. not sure what they’re like these days.
I never understood why fruit was so ridiculously expensive. I ended up eating fruit maybe once a month and at that it was something cheap like bananas. Cheapest solution for me was to eat fruit at restaurants which offered little bits along with deserts.
I don’t remember the last time i ate a piece of fruit.