Japanese Grapes: Only $900 a Bunch

In Japan, it is common for people to give each other fruit, such as grapes, melons, or apples, as a sort of luxury gift, but every so often it gets a little overboard.

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On August 11, 2008, in Ishikawa Prefecture Japan, a bunch of “Ruby Roman” grapes were auctioned and purchased by a restaurant owner for a record high of 100,000 yen (around $910).

The bunch had about 35 grapes on it, costing around $26 per grape, and each one was as big as a ping pong ball.

The other bunches sold for average of 27,000 yen (around $245).

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By Mui Mui on 18-08-2008

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  1. Comment by lolwut??

    August 18th, 2008 at 1:03 pm

    FIRST!!!!

  2. Comment by Don Salva

    August 18th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Jesus, what the…. o.O

  3. Comment by Retroist

    August 18th, 2008 at 3:47 pm

    What they couldn’t make them square?

  4. Comment by Muah

    August 18th, 2008 at 4:49 pm

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  5. Comment by freemerryjane

    August 18th, 2008 at 10:58 pm

    Move to California. Grapes are abundant here.

  6. Comment by TeninaT

    August 19th, 2008 at 10:37 am

    Wow. That’s… expensive…

  7. Comment by Lien

    August 19th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

    What was so special about the grapes that made them so expenisive?

  8. Comment by emfajar

    August 19th, 2008 at 7:38 pm

    wooo lucky grapes

  9. Comment by groping_grape

    August 19th, 2008 at 8:04 pm

    910$?? much more expen$ive than a PS3…

  10. Comment by Chinaman

    August 20th, 2008 at 3:21 am

    what??? Chop the meat balls and forget the grapes!

  11. Comment by starboykb

    August 20th, 2008 at 7:59 am

    Wait. What? $900 a bunch? I will save that for my Gundam

  12. Comment by Stephan

    August 20th, 2008 at 9:13 am

    Now he has enought $ to fill his gas tank!

  13. Comment by Onetonbully

    August 24th, 2008 at 5:24 pm

    Probably a money laundering scam of some sort.

  14. Comment by Mekajil

    August 27th, 2008 at 10:55 am

    HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA good one xD

  15. Comment by chumpman

    August 28th, 2008 at 7:21 am

    wah….so expensive….so expensive that I would contemplate about eating it. What if it is not nice and so expensive?!!

  16. Comment by lucas

    September 18th, 2008 at 1:01 am

    someone really really wanted them

  17. Comment by Harimau

    September 24th, 2008 at 2:55 am

    if i had money to burn, i would so get these.

  18. Comment by jy

    October 18th, 2008 at 3:31 am

    japanese grapes, especially those expensive ones, taste reaaallyy good. those must be like. . . undescribably good. XD

  19. Comment by Japanese Words

    March 31st, 2009 at 8:58 pm

    Yes, people value really good fruit here very highly. I bought a $100 dollar basket of fruit for my host family when I was a student here and they were thrilled.

  20. Comment by your mom

    November 1st, 2009 at 5:33 pm

    $100/basket of fruit
    $1000/35 grapes. …………….I don't see the correlation.
    The guy obviously really really wanted the grapes.. and had obviously enough money to not care about spending money on grapes.

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