Published by Swiss James on 06 Aug 2009 at 12:43 pm
What are these famous apples?
I mentioned these a while ago, but this is the first time I’ve been able to control my rage long enough to take a photo.
Japanese apples at “Fresh Mart” supermarket in Jing-An
128RMB = 19USD = 11GBP = 99WTF
I’m not sure how much 128RMB buys where you come from, but back in Doncaster you could buy a whole apple pie for that kind of money, and still have change to sprinkle it with five pound notes.
A guy at work told me all about them:
If you liked that, you might like...Guy at work: “The technology they use to grow these apples is very advanced, which makes them expensive”
Me: “So, do they taste good?”
Guy at work: “Nobody knows, they are too expensive to eat.”
I also saw them already and my reaction was the same. I could either have a nice party in a club with open bar plus still enough money to buy me two big macs at 6am to fight the hangover, or buy ONE (as in 1 or latin= I ) APPLE! Some friends told me they are supposed to be very sweet though. But I still dont get it, why does the super advanced Japanese technology make them more expensive? I thought the point of technology in agriculture is to make it more efficient thus cheaper…
Mats- I don’t think you understand quite how advanced this technology is- look how well protected the apples have to be, if that’s not the sign of deliciousness, then I don’t know what is.
Dammit. I’m going to go buy one and eat it just to see.
I like the special padding to keep the stem from touching the body of the apple. The technology for that assembly alone must be amazing – robotic arms and sensors that probably select the sponges based on the thickness of the apple stem. It’s got to be worth it…
In the words of Victor Meldrew ‘ I don’t bloody believe it!’
They would want to be gold plated for that money. Stop the insanity.
Does anyone other than WoAi buy them? C’mon WoAi spill the beans, what do they taste like? You love all that designer nonsense.
I thought I’d seen the worst of it when someone posted a photo of a $40 packet of 15 strawberries in a Japanese store. This works out as $2.67 per strawberry, an absolute bargain I realise now.
What might not be immediately obvious from the photo is that each apple is the size of Gary Coleman’s thumb.
I think there’s much worse in Japan though, melons for thousands of dollars and stuff
OK. I’ve really tried to think of something witty to say. I can’t. This is outrageous to the core!
Of course apples are expensive they don’t grow on trees you know!
I’ll be honest I’ve never actually eaten one of these, but every morning I get my ayi to make a glass of apple juice using six of them each time and it tastes pretty good. Tomorrow I’ll tell her to just juice 5 and I’ll eat the sixth and report back.
Wow these are beautifuly packed, and very attractive to eat
I’ve had a bite of those square watermelon before. They also cost an arm and leg. They are pretty damn good! But i didn’t pay for the $100 USD watermelon. I’ll just take a bite of this apple if anyone is going to buy it.
Gola, mate, I don’t see how anyone in Pakistan could afford apples that expensive.
I say we pass the hat around, buy 1 and then cut it into 6 slivers to share @ 20 odd kuai a sliver.
Wonder what they do with the unsold ones as they slowly get mushy ?
F me. At that price I’d be carefully keeping the seeds and planting them in 4 tonnes of soil I’d just had trucked in from somewhere non-toxic (still looking, looking). Just hope they weren’t GM’d to be infertile.
It would take a few years for the first crop; I’d have to keep it a secret though. Wouldn’t want Lao Wang despatching the *Japanese* saplings with a machete…..
Actually Zak- Dingle bought me one for my birthday- wrapped up in about 20 layers of protective foam it was.
We had the people at Tsingdao Beer Pub (love that name) slice it up for us and bring it on a plate.
It was OK.
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