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Pyramid shaped watermelons: $560 each

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A farm in Hokkaido has created pyramid-shaped watermelons:

Only 16 of the premium watermelons are being sold at a cost of 52,500 yen ($560) each. They’ve been branded with King Tut stickers [perhaps because you'd have to be as rich as a pharaoh to buy one].

Would you pay 52,500 yen for a watermelon?

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22 comments - What do you think? Posted by James - July 17, 2009 at 12:25 pm

Categories: Odd / Strange Tags: food, japanese watermelons, pyramind

weirdo

観賞用で味の保証はないってｗｗ
Jarvik

I don’t even really like watermelon…
http://whatjapanthinks.com Ken Y-N

So, what does the Arabic say? And wouldn’t heiroglyphics have been more appropriate?

The Overthinker

Knowing the track record of this sort of thing, no doubt something Muslims will find offensive….
Abdullah

اهرام= pyramids…plural form of the word هرم
بطيخ = watermelon
احمر = red (the color)…but it needn’t be included…I’m not too sure why they did

http://www.hormel.com Vonskippy

I just bought two organically grown watermelons at the farmer’s market for $4 USD each (around 375 yen).

http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/User:Charles_Nguyen Charles Nguyen

well I just bought my limited-edition star-shaped watermelon for $5000! Ha!

http://www.feitclub.com feitclub

Do you think if Japan ever fully embraces the Internet there will be a collective realization that everything around here is more expensive than it should be and the very idea of a $100 melon or a $50 grape is actually offensive? Or do they already know they’re paying too much and someone’s convinced them that’s OK because they’re getting something special in exchange for all that cash?

weirdo

Uh…you don’t think $100 melons and $50 grapes are the norm or anything
do you? You can buy regular ones for much cheaper…

The Overthinker

Personally I feel sorry for the Europeans, who have to pay through the nose for cars. I mean, look at the prices of Rolls-Royces and Ferraris.

binsentokun

I think it’s due to cooking shows where they highlight the main ingredient of a dish, and it always turns out to be some extremely rare veggie or meat that costs an arm and a leg, which they hype up by highlighting the crunch it makes, or the way the juices flow from it when you cook it, or because it is becoming extinct, etc.. Then, of course, you have the talento talking about how great the food is and you can really tell the difference, blah blah blah.

http://www.google.com CC

Once you know the process of growing watermelons in weird shapes, you will be surprised how simple it is to grow them and hence will definitely find the price of $560 beyond ridiculous.

But I doubt I will get offended if I were to live in Japan. It’s part of the culture and the product is certainly supported by the local economy. Actually if you do some simple calculations, as long as 1 watermelon is sold, that money probably can cover the cost of growing the batch of 16.
http://www.orienthq.com Eamon

Man what shape can they be up to next? Perhaps the star shape?
Rob A

Someone’s making a $559.00 profit over there…
rich

LOL all you goons that say no are just poor people.

Stay away from us rich people,

lol brb time to eat my octagonal shape watermelon.
http://colininjapan.com Colin

Think of it: if you start cutting horizontally from the top to the bottom you get increasingly larger squares! Brilliant!
http://aimai3.livejournal.com mai

Well at least sell it for 30-40 or probably 50 bucks.
that’s alot for a watermelon.

but 560 is wayyyyyyyy tooo much!
pouy

DIY
Pyramid watermelon

1. Plant watermelon in your garden (or others if they allow!)
2. Sprinkle and wait until you see the offspring of watermelon
3. built pyramid mould without bottom
4. put the watermelon in the mould by let the branch go through the top of pyramid
5. wait.. wait.. wait
6. bingo! you can sell it for 54,500 yen. Dont forget the King Tut sticker to up the price
7. lets make it a couple of dozen, then we can get rich

helical

I think that you’d probably need a few different sized molds as the fruit grows, but your point stands.

http://thaiswebb.blogg.se/en Thai

Hmm. What’s next, a ball-shaped melon? No wait, we already have that. It wouldn’t surprise me a bit if we get to see a melon shaped lika a banana sometimes in the future. ^^

And just to answer the question, I would never pay 52,500 for a fruit. :3
http://www.startmycreditrepair.com/credit-repair-texas/ Credit Repair Texas

please make different molds of melon as different people have different taste of shapes …
Nihonjin

The best part:

“Taste/flavor is not guaranteed.” Haha…

Pyramid shaped watermelons: $560 each

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