Buy a Watermelon for $6,100
Food prices are climbing all over the world and Japan has to be the most outstanding country again.
A 17-pound (8 kilograms) black jumbo watermelon was sold in Japan for $6100, which makes it possibly the world most expensive watermelon.
Another watermelon on the same sale ended up being sold for $5,945, and weighs 24 pounds (11 kilograms). The difference is explained in the texture and form of the smaller melon.
In Japan, watermelons are considered luxury items and are given as gifts. Most watermelons sold in department stores costs between $183 and $283. The watermelon comes from Hokkaido, in the northern part of the state. These prices are not just unique to watermelons. Last month two “Yubari” cantaloupe melons sold for a record price of $23,500.
What makes these watermelons so expensive? A spokesman told AP that it’s is unusual black skin and outstanding stand. We still can’t think that watermelon can’t be worth more than $2, no matter if it tastes like gold.
Would you buy a watermelon for $200? share your thoughts with us.
Would I buy a watermelon for $200? Not on your life!
I really do not understand why they go for so much!! $6100!!
I don’t know either. Maybe they have too much money, maybe they are bored, maybe they like weird stuff. Oh Wait! I know they answer: They are Japanese! that’s explains a lot
The people who buy $200 watermelons are probably the same type of people who would ‘invest’ in a $500 designer bag that is only large enough to fit a small bic lighter in it. Arguably the bag might offer more utility than a watermelon but compared to everything else, they’re both pretty useless. But, alas, I’m sure some day a fashionista will come along and flaunt their $6,100 watermelon at me and tell me that I simply “don’t get it.”
@Jason:
Designer watermelon.. I think you are on to something. And if there are enough customers to buy them in this price, who are we not to sell them?
@Japanite
Yes! And we should also have an illogically large flagship store to sell only 1 watermelon at a time – by invitation only, of course.
Cool! Always love trying new things, this’ll be the next thing cooking!Thanks!Yuka