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.
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 $245).
(link)
By Mui Mui on 18-08-2008
Comment by lolwut??
August 18th, 2008 at 1:03 pm
FIRST!!!!
Comment by Don Salva
August 18th, 2008 at 2:08 pm
Jesus, what the…. o.O
Comment by Retroist
August 18th, 2008 at 3:47 pm
What they couldn’t make them square?
Comment by Muah
August 18th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
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Comment by freemerryjane
August 18th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
Move to California. Grapes are abundant here.
Comment by TeninaT
August 19th, 2008 at 10:37 am
Wow. That’s… expensive…
Comment by Lien
August 19th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
What was so special about the grapes that made them so expenisive?
Comment by emfajar
August 19th, 2008 at 7:38 pm
wooo lucky grapes
Comment by groping_grape
August 19th, 2008 at 8:04 pm
910$?? much more expen$ive than a PS3…
Comment by Chinaman
August 20th, 2008 at 3:21 am
what??? Chop the meat balls and forget the grapes!
Comment by starboykb
August 20th, 2008 at 7:59 am
Wait. What? $900 a bunch? I will save that for my Gundam
Comment by Stephan
August 20th, 2008 at 9:13 am
Now he has enought $ to fill his gas tank!
Comment by Onetonbully
August 24th, 2008 at 5:24 pm
Probably a money laundering scam of some sort.
Comment by Mekajil
August 27th, 2008 at 10:55 am
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA good one xD
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?!!
Comment by lucas
September 18th, 2008 at 1:01 am
someone really really wanted them
Comment by Harimau
September 24th, 2008 at 2:55 am
if i had money to burn, i would so get these.
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
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.
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.