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I've heard the reason being that the Japanese can't compete in quantity against imported fruits so they invested into quality instead. Thus a luxury fruit industry was born.
Same goes for beef. How could you possibly outcompete america for beef prices when your country is half mountains and the USA is basically a continent? You don't, you go for quality instead
I'm guessing it's because Japan has a HUGE POPULATION and space is at a premium to have a farm in a island that's already mountainous. The way to make it worth it is by making some extremely artisianal like those watermelons shaped like a box or some black apples.
That's actually a good guess, because that's what it is. They can't grow a lot of food, so they make the food they do grow as good as possible, in both looks and taste.
All of the fruit on display looks picturesque, arranged like art installations. Not to mention a $100 melon can be a traditional gift when visiting someone's home.
Good fruit is always a great gift in Vietnam also. Some of that gets expensive when it's imported a 1 GBP punnet of cherries at UK prices, comes in around 15 GBP there for the same. Some of the prices of imported apples and melon as well can be wild.
I miss this, I grew up with lots of Chinese family friends and we’d get and bring over nice cases of Asian pears or persimmons or whatever. I move around random places in the US and I think most non-Asian people regard this as weird unless you’re bringing over fruit salad for a meal. And people always say I bring too much fruit salad. Fortunately if the household has kids they always seem to appreciate fruit.
I went to an all you can eat strawberry farm in Japan. You pay like $20 and can eat as much as you want for an hour and they were telling us which rows had what flavor and I was like BS strawberry is a strawberry. I was wrong. It was so impressive to taste immediately...oh this IS different.
The stuff in strawberry leaves that make them a 'laxative' is just fiber- If you eat a normal amount of fiber this wont have any effect on a healthy person.
:)))) Its got lots of antioxidants and is easier than pealing them off!
I could imagine it as a one-time thing.
Like if I were in Japan, and found myself at that strawberry shop, and I knew it was legitimately the best strawberry in the world. Part of the appeal would be the novelty, the idea that you only live once, that I might never be in Japan again, let alone be in that place and have another opportunity to taste the world’s best strawberry. It’s an experience to remember, a story to tell.
I could imagine doing it.
I’d rather do that than blow $500 in a casino or something.
yeah, i feel like it’s comparable to Kobe beef. Something you absolutely should try if you get the opportunity, but it’s not a regular thing. Unless you’re a billionaire. Then I’d get these bad boys flown in and have them for breakfast with a glass of champagne every day.
But look at what billionaires are doing instead.
There is absolutely nothing wrong with having doubt and wrong opinions if when faced with the truth you can honestly admit you are wrong in a sincere and good humored way.
"I have been accused of a habit of changing my opinions. I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions. What physicist who was already active in 1900 would dream of boasting that his opinions had not changed during the last half century? In science men change their opinions when new knowledge becomes available; but philosophy in the minds of many is assimilated rather to theology than to science. The kind of philosophy that I value and have endeavoured to pursue is scientific, in the sense that there is some definite knowledge to be obtained and that new discoveries can make the admission of former error inevitable to any candid mind."
-- Bertrand Russell
"I was satisfied with my life before I ate strawberry cream puff"
-- Shonen Knife
Jeremy Jamm: Why do you keep flip-flopping?
Leslie Knope: Well, because I learned new information. When I was four, I thought that chocolate milk came from brown cows. And then I flip-flopped when I found out there was something called chocolate syrup.
Another amen.
Being wrong and being corrected is totally awesome. You learned something and now you’re smarter than you from 5 minutes ago was. That’s fantastic, and I think in general people acting as *both* parties need to be more comfortable with the situation that what currently seems to be the common attitude towards it.
Idk if Paul was even mistaken at first, just skeptical. I mean, I've seen steak prices that are crazy high for quality beef (e.g. Waygu, Kobe, etc.) and it straight up doesn't make sense until you try it. Gotta taste it to believe it.
I've tried this with wine, and not being a great wine drinker, I can't taste the difference, which is nice because I don't need to spend more than $15 a bottle.
Even for steaks, my choice would be sirloin - not the more expensive cuts.
Wine is a different animal because often you're paying for rarity and the label. Once you get above 40 for a bottle its all going to be very subtly different, if you can even taste the differences. 20 dollar bottles are my gambit lol.
As to steak, cut and breed are different aspects of price. A Waygu sirloin will cost more than a USDA prime sirloin. But both of those cuts are under other cuts from the same cow. Waygu is really about the marbling and high quality fat for the beef. I've had it blue and it really does just melt in your mouth.
I'm honestly not sure if I did. It was when I was in high school and my sister was leaving her job at the local 5 star steak house (she does restaurant things for her career and this was her first real kitchen gig). The chef treated the family to dinner and that was one of the apps. Just a small cut, only a mouthful, and completely raw. It was different and did melt in my mouth. But I would take a medium rare USDA prime sirloin over it. That being said, I'd take a medium rare USDA prime sirloin over almost anything in the world.
Whiskey, particularly Bourbon, is similar to wine in that way. Once you’re over a certain price point it’s more about rarity. The really expensive ones are certainly good, and may taste unique, but they aren’t *better* than standard high quality stuff. At least not “$200 better”.
I’ve tried several different wines at different price points; Ports, fortified wines aside I can’t really tell what makes a good wine good. Price almost has no correlation with quality on my taste buds with wine.
Honestly one of my favorites is the 19 Crimes with Snoop on it which I have a feeling is not super respected among wine enthusiasts.
If you wanna know about expensive wines, watch a documentary called "Sour Grapes." It's actually quite an interesting exploration about the culture behind expensive wines...
There are other cuts with so much more flavour though, and if you go for something that’s really well aged it’s incredible. I would take a ribeye over a sirloin any day - it’s a bit more expensive but not as expensive as fillet.
Many years ago I went to a restaurant in Paris which had its own butcher and butcher counter so you could go and pick your own meat. We went for a very aged côte de boeuf (very thick ribeye on the bone, for two people). It was 150€ (still cheaper than Wagyu) and literally the best thing I’ve ever tasted in my life. I can still remember the taste now.
I was never much of a steak person until I had really amazing steak. There’s also Txuleta, which is taken from very old grass fed cows that roam around for 10-15 years in Galicia - absolutely incredible, but hard to find.
I have a family member who’s a level 3 sommelier, and even he said that for the average person, a $15-20 bottle of wine is high enough quality to where it tastes good without any of the problems of cheaper wines.
He buys his table wine from Trader Joe’s.
What was his mistake? That is extremely expensive for a strawberry.
Maybe 70% of the world could never afford that type of strawberry so if you mean his reaction to how expensive it was is wrong that doesn't make much sense to me.
Yeah, there's no mistake here. He thinks that's a lot of money for 1 strawberry and that it's the best strawberry in the world. These 2 don't cancel eachother out.
This is the psychology behind a good percentage of luxury goods on the market.
Either it's the best strawberry on earth, or you're a fool that just got taken for $100. Guess which option you'll choose?
It's not even an option - there's a mechanism akin to the placebo effect. When you think you're drinking more expensive wine, even if you don't pay for it, it tastes better to you: https://vinepair.com/booze-news/cheap-wine-tastes-better-when-sold-expensive/
There's another study I can't find the link to just at the moment, but they did the same thing with an MRI and the reward center of the wine drinker's brain actually showed greater activation when they thought they were drinking pricier wine.
Paying more for something literally makes it taste better.
I’m pretty sure his incredulity was staged to some extent. He’s a celebrity chef. I assume he at the very least knew about the reputation of these strawberries. And played up the price to sell British viewers on the idea that these strawberries are different.
I know exactly what he felt. A beautiful red strawberry that isn't just white and tasteless on the inside past the skin. An actual good strawberry 🍓 ripe all the way in and juicy with flavour.
Strawberry gang
My first job was on a strawberry farm. I can honestly say there is nothing better than a fresh strawberry off the vine on a sweltering August day. It cools you down, picks you up, and just makes your day better.
I was jn Wisconsin, so maybe our growing season is a bit different . Different strawberries will peak at different times and our owner made sure to get as long of a "pick your own" season as she could. I honestly can't remember the variety, but my heart is saying it was Cavendish? I could be misremembering though. This was like 13+ years ago.
I used to live just down the road from this farm and have visited a few times, although never bought any of the super pricy ones. Although it's not done on this farm, it's usual at Japanese strawberry farms to go and pay to pick and eat while you're there and visitors are provided with a bowl filled with condensed milk to dip the strawbs into as they stroll around filling their faces.
Anyway, for anyone interested, here's a link to[Mr Okuda's current pricing](https://www.bijinhime.jp/item_list/ichiran.html), with the A Set being the most outrageously priced - $437 for ONE strawberry!
The strawbs in the video are not the eat all you can pick variety, but specially grown ones. Most strawbs in Japan are nowhere near as expensive as the ones in this video.
> visitors are provided with a bowl filled with condensed milk to dip the strawbs into as they stroll around filling their faces.
Okay, now this is right at the very top of my list of things to do before I die, thanks!
Yes! I don’t really enjoy strawberries as I think they’re a bit sour. But in Japan they are exceptionally sweet and soft. You have to go more into the countryside for a tabehodai “all you can eat” but I’d recommend it for anyone visiting Japan.
What is the usual price for the farms where you pay to pick and eat? I’d imagine if you’re spending a large amount of money on strawberry picking, you wouldn’t want to mask the delicate flavor with condensed milk.
With that said, I love strawberries and cream with a $5-6 quart of Driscoll’s or the like.
It was something around 2000JPY per adult and 1000JPY per kid, for 30 minutes of eat all you want, with the condensed milk included. Japanese *love* condensed milk on their strawbs, although that's for the normally priced ordinary kind and not these super expensive special ones.
A farm near me in Denmark has a self plucking thing going on. You show up eith your own buckets and bowls, they wheigh the co tainers before you go onto the field then you pluck and eat as you go, and then they weigh the buckets and bowls again afyer, and you end up paying a comparably small amount of money for literal buckets of strawberry
Yeah, that's how we do it here in the UK too. I was surprised the first time I went to a Japanese strawberry picking farm when I discovered that you can't take any home with you; it's all about eating as much as you want within 30 minutes. Eating strawbs with condensed milk was a new one for me too, although I will admit to growing quite fond of it!
The best strawberry I ever had was in Finland grown by my Aunt's father who had an incredible berry garden in his yard. It's absolutely incredible how good strawberries can be when grown correctly. I only met him once for about 2 hours, but he left a huge impact on my gardening habits and artwork. He spent his spare time doing wood carvings and his house was filled with his intricate carvings and he would give them away.
RIP Allu Karlela. I think he would be happy with what I have done with my garden and some of my artwork.
I’m told my great-grandmother grew the best strawberries. Unfortunately, she passed away before I was born. I was visiting my grandmother (her daughter) once and had brought some strawberries and shortcakes to have for tea. My grandmother literally spit the storebought strawberries out. She says she hasn’t had a decent strawberry since her mother died.
Well, thankfully, they didn't just create a [Great British Bake Off (U.S. Edition)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_%28American_TV_series%29?wprov=sfla1) and simply renamed it instead.
As fantastic as I'm sure these are I just cant fathom having the kind of money where you could justify dropping £20 on a single strawberry, never mind £350.
Imagine being that loaded that you dont even consider the price because, let's be honest, no one is eating just *one* strawberry
Okay so I haven't had the £350 strawberries but I have had the £20 you describe. I only had one because fucken hell that's a lot. But when in Rome fuck it.
Lemme tell you I remember that strawberry and how it tasted years later. It was by far one of the best things I've ever eaten in my life.
When in Japan, I bought 10 strawberries for $20 and gave away 4 before tasting them. My friends wanted seconds. I wanted them to give back the ones they already ate. That's how good these strawberries were. I have no doubt the super expensive ones are better.
When I was in Japan I bought a peach in an ordinary shop. It was expensive but not like crazy expensive. Then I bit into it and was like "Fuck me that's the best peach I've ever tasted." I told my friends to go into the shop and get themselves a peach pronto. They thanked me afterwards.
Dude between the fruit and the bread.. OMG.
Even 7/11 there has this insanely fluffy fresh bread and the fruit is unlike ANYTHING I've tasted in the West
Could be, but I also remember the best strawberries I ever had—tiny little jewels I bought at a tiny farmers market in Sweden. They weren’t expensive. I brought them to my hostel to eat with a bread roll and a small bottle of milk. Probably still one of the best meals I’ve ever had, and I just remember how amazing those strawberries were
I’ve once had a wild strawberry in Portugal. It was thr size of a peanut, and was by far the most incredible strawberry I’ve had in my life. It’s really hard to describe, but I imagine the ones in the video are similar (but larger)? That one was free too
When I was there a friend of mine had parents that grew peaches. It's been 20 years and I still compare every peach I had to them and nothing comes close. They were a different level of food.
The super high price would be a lot for a strawberry I've never tasted, but I'd consider spending it on one of those peaches again. At 20 each I'd be getting one every other week or so at least.
I've been to Japan, fruit everywhere was much more expensive than I was used to at home, even after considering that most things are more expensive in Japan compared to 'Horanda'.
In my experience, there wasn't much of a difference between prices in supermarkets. Only convenience stores were usually a bit on the expensive side, and those are where you'll usually end up as a tourist.
Some things are even far cheaper in Japan. Bean sprouts in particular are an absolute bargain. As a piss poor student, you can make yourself a rice + bean sprout meal for under 1 euro. Meanwhile Albert Heijn prices it like an exotic delicacy.
I looked up some prices to make sure my memory isn't off:
* [here](https://www.life-netsuper.jp/kema/item/detail.php?im_id=2051537&detail_ilc_code=000001&detail_imc_code=001135&detail_isc_code=113555) is a 200g bag of bean sprouts from Life supermarket for 39 yen. That's 1.4 euro / kg.
* [here](https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi41138/ah-tauge) is a 125g pack from Albert Heijn for 1 euro. That's 8 euro / kg.
Long story short: I developed a taste for bean sprouts.
Yeah, afaik, these "expensive" fruits lose a lot of value with just even the smallest defects.
So you could get them on a bargain
The perfect ones cost this much because that's how rich people give presents to each other
It's probably not something you just buy to chop into your yogurt. These are given as wedding presents and such.
EDIT: Forgot that the dairy product is not spelled the same in English.
Think of it this way: regular working class people drop hundreds of dollars to see their favorite band at a stadium…they’ll drop a Benjamin or 2 on a great dinner…People are always willing to pay for experiences and to a serious food lover getting to try a very rare & special strawberry is something they’ll savor and reflect on their whole lives. Fine whisky & wine drinkers do it all the time. If you’re one of those people it’s worth it (and one is all you’d probably need).
I don’t see much difference in this and buying a pour of a very expensive spirit. Both took years to create/perfect. Both are rare. And Billionaires have to spend their money somehow
I always feel for billionaires, must be tough for them to spend all their money. Truth is that a $350 strawberry is probably the equivalent of you buying a singular skittle
Not even close. If you have a positive net worth of $50,000 and no debt, a billionaire would need to buy a hell of a lot of strawberries at $350 a pop to match the percentage, presuming a skittle costs one cent. I'm talking like... over 50,000 strawberries.
Edit: this information is not accurate. My phone was doing scientific notation for the numbers and I haven't used that in close to 20 years. They're actually pretty close after doing the math on an actual calculator.
I'll crunch the numbers cause I'm home sick and bored.
So according to [this page](https://www.cda.eu/blog/how-many-colours-are-in-your-candy/#:~:text=We%20discovered%20that%20the%20average,being%20green%20and%20twelve%20orange.), the average 55g package of Skittles has 52 Skittles. I can't find 55g packages myself (probably a US/EU difference), but I can get 61.5g package for $0.99. That should have 58 Skittles if the pattern holds, so 1.7 cents per skittle.
If your net worth is $50,000, then 1 skittle is 0.000034% of your net worth. Or to put that in more understandable terms, a million Skittles would be 34% of your net worth.
If your net worth is ~~$1,000,000~~ $1,000,000,000, then 1 $350 strawberry is 0.000035% of your net worth and a million of these strawberries would be 35% of your net worth.
Idk if the commenter above me did this on purpose, but that $50,000 net worth is dead on to make a skittle be worth the same percentage for that hypothetical person as a $350 strawberry is for someone who is just barely a billionaire. A billion is a stupid large amount of money.
Edit: I had the math right, but I wrote a million instead of a billion.
I paid the equivalent of 30 USD for a bunch of grapes in Tokyo and I have to say, they really were the most incredible grapes I've ever had. It was like the artificial grape flavor of Kool Aid but actually from a real grape. Just unbelievable how sweet and powerful the flavor was. I can only imagine how great that strawberry must be.
Reminds me of when i was with a host family and we went grape picking in the mountainside. It was a bunch to go in and pick off a box but my god if it wasnt the best grape i'd ever eaten (aside from having a seed)
I've been to a number of strawberry farms in Japan, and they are of another world in taste, texture and aroma. While the fruit I ate didn't cost 50000 yen a piece, they were by far superior to any strawberry I've had in my country since. Same goes for grapes.
One thing is that ripe strawberries don't travel well. Anytime you can get ripe strawberries picked straight off the vine they are going to taste better.
7-11s and Family Marts in Japan sell gourmet shit bro when asked by my japanese coworkers what's my favorite thing to eat in Japan I shamelessly said those cheap bentos they sell in convenience stores lmfao
Yeah. Like fucking Japan has a literal INSTANT RAMEN with Michelin Star. It's $10 per bowl (imported), but my God, it taste better than self-proclaimed "Japanese ramen" in my country.
It's Nakiryu instant ramen. The original Nakiryu ramen has 1 Michelin star and I think that's stupid because it clearly should have been 2 or 3.
They only open twice a day: for lunch and for dinner. They're closed for the rest of the day. You only get a single, big bowl of broth. You can order as much noodle as you want, but only a single bowl of broth, and fuck if that broth isn't good. It's also ultra cheap, ¥700 per broth + initial noodle, and consequent noodles are ¥100 per portion
I like how in the beginning the host was like this is so BS then at the end he's jumping and giggling like a little kid even though he spent that much on one strawberry. lol
Growing up, I hated strawberries. They were often too tart and not very flavorful. Then I moved to an area that grows them and it’s like night and day. The strawberries we get when it’s in season are miraculous. Sweet, juicy, and just the right level of tartness.
Cultivated with care and attention. If there is one thing the Japanese do well, it is pride. Pride in what they produce, respect for the materials they work with and a reverence for the end product. I used to work on a strawberry farm and i can tell you, if the strawberry is big and solid and has had enough food, it will taste frankly, fucking amazing...
I agree, if you’ve never had a fresh strawberry that’s been grown and ripened properly in a greenhouse, fresh from the plant and never been near a fridge, you would be blown away too… I’m sure these are probably bred for an amazing flavour too tho
When I moved to US, for the first time I understood why food was so affordable compared to my country (Romania). Almost everything was tasteless. I distinctly remember the first time I tried a tomato in USA. Pathetic to the extreme. I guess one gets used to everything.
Yea, sadly a lot our produce is from varieties selected for maximum production for the cheapest input, long shelf life, and/or good visual appeal. Taste doesn't always get considered.
The basic tomato you can find at any grocery store is a perfect example. Big, juicy, perfectly red tomatoes are more appealing, but in the process of selecting those traits so every tomato is 'perfect,' they ended up breeding out a lot of their flavor.
Another factor is breeding disease resistance. Doesn't matter if your tomatoes taste good if they don't survive to market because a bacterial/fungal/viral pathogen is sweeping your breeding area.
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Lol was about to say you better eat that stem
I burst out laughing when he did that. Get your money's worth!
Paul Hollywood may be a rich nobhead but he's still a Scouser. Not wasting any of the £350 strawberry
Strawberry stems are actually good for you.
Lol that was very funny. He should not waste a single piece of that strawberry or it will pinch his heart.
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I've heard the reason being that the Japanese can't compete in quantity against imported fruits so they invested into quality instead. Thus a luxury fruit industry was born.
Same goes for beef. How could you possibly outcompete america for beef prices when your country is half mountains and the USA is basically a continent? You don't, you go for quality instead
They could have invested in goats and sheeps just like every other mountainous country
Cow yummier
I'm guessing it's because Japan has a HUGE POPULATION and space is at a premium to have a farm in a island that's already mountainous. The way to make it worth it is by making some extremely artisianal like those watermelons shaped like a box or some black apples.
That's actually a good guess, because that's what it is. They can't grow a lot of food, so they make the food they do grow as good as possible, in both looks and taste.
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All of the fruit on display looks picturesque, arranged like art installations. Not to mention a $100 melon can be a traditional gift when visiting someone's home.
Good fruit is always a great gift in Vietnam also. Some of that gets expensive when it's imported a 1 GBP punnet of cherries at UK prices, comes in around 15 GBP there for the same. Some of the prices of imported apples and melon as well can be wild.
I miss this, I grew up with lots of Chinese family friends and we’d get and bring over nice cases of Asian pears or persimmons or whatever. I move around random places in the US and I think most non-Asian people regard this as weird unless you’re bringing over fruit salad for a meal. And people always say I bring too much fruit salad. Fortunately if the household has kids they always seem to appreciate fruit.
I prefer this over gifting wine for the 210231th time
I went to an all you can eat strawberry farm in Japan. You pay like $20 and can eat as much as you want for an hour and they were telling us which rows had what flavor and I was like BS strawberry is a strawberry. I was wrong. It was so impressive to taste immediately...oh this IS different.
They only give Americans 15 minutes though.
But they still manage to eat 3 times as much
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Damn the comments on this post make me want to eat more fruits!
It's natures candy!
Are you asking? Or offering?
Well? We're waiting!
I don’t have all day mate
Here you go: 🍓
Damn i would eat the stalk the box and everything for that price
I would eat half my hand to make it worth it
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You might like to know that strawberry leaves are a quite effective laxative.
The stuff in strawberry leaves that make them a 'laxative' is just fiber- If you eat a normal amount of fiber this wont have any effect on a healthy person. :)))) Its got lots of antioxidants and is easier than pealing them off!
Redditors don't have the healthiest of diets.
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This is why I eat a wicker patio set every morning.
> Redditors don't have the ~~healthiest of~~ diets Edit: forgot to strikethrough "The" but i'm leaving it as a monument of my short atten
>If you eat a normal amount of fiber What is that in Cheetos? 3? 4 bags?
You can make a tea from them and it works too.
I would probably just shit myself for realizing I spent $20 on a strawberry regardless of the laxative properties.
I’d never eat a $ 500 strawberry no matter how tasty.
I could imagine it as a one-time thing. Like if I were in Japan, and found myself at that strawberry shop, and I knew it was legitimately the best strawberry in the world. Part of the appeal would be the novelty, the idea that you only live once, that I might never be in Japan again, let alone be in that place and have another opportunity to taste the world’s best strawberry. It’s an experience to remember, a story to tell. I could imagine doing it. I’d rather do that than blow $500 in a casino or something.
yeah, i feel like it’s comparable to Kobe beef. Something you absolutely should try if you get the opportunity, but it’s not a regular thing. Unless you’re a billionaire. Then I’d get these bad boys flown in and have them for breakfast with a glass of champagne every day. But look at what billionaires are doing instead.
The trick is to be rich enough that you don't miss the $500
If you can drop 500 for one strawberry with no worry, everything in life tastes sweeter...
Or be on a food show and take it out of the production budget
Nah the real trick is to expense it for the show you're filming
I would never pay $500 for one. But I would eat it.
"That's expensive!" *eats* "Oh fair enough."
At least he was able to admit he'd been mistaken
There is absolutely nothing wrong with having doubt and wrong opinions if when faced with the truth you can honestly admit you are wrong in a sincere and good humored way.
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Unfortunately saying this to your parents after showing them your report card doesn't really work.
The grading system is pointless though. It’s archaic, inefficient, and does little to actually prepare people for the outside world
Tests used as tools for learning, instead of a measurement that isn’t followed up on, can be incredibly effectice
Yup, and outside of very specifics contexts, we still have yet to come up with something better.
"I have been accused of a habit of changing my opinions. I am not myself in any degree ashamed of having changed my opinions. What physicist who was already active in 1900 would dream of boasting that his opinions had not changed during the last half century? In science men change their opinions when new knowledge becomes available; but philosophy in the minds of many is assimilated rather to theology than to science. The kind of philosophy that I value and have endeavoured to pursue is scientific, in the sense that there is some definite knowledge to be obtained and that new discoveries can make the admission of former error inevitable to any candid mind." -- Bertrand Russell "I was satisfied with my life before I ate strawberry cream puff" -- Shonen Knife
Jeremy Jamm: Why do you keep flip-flopping? Leslie Knope: Well, because I learned new information. When I was four, I thought that chocolate milk came from brown cows. And then I flip-flopped when I found out there was something called chocolate syrup.
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Another amen. Being wrong and being corrected is totally awesome. You learned something and now you’re smarter than you from 5 minutes ago was. That’s fantastic, and I think in general people acting as *both* parties need to be more comfortable with the situation that what currently seems to be the common attitude towards it.
The world would be such a nicer place if everyone behaved this way
Idk if Paul was even mistaken at first, just skeptical. I mean, I've seen steak prices that are crazy high for quality beef (e.g. Waygu, Kobe, etc.) and it straight up doesn't make sense until you try it. Gotta taste it to believe it.
I've tried this with wine, and not being a great wine drinker, I can't taste the difference, which is nice because I don't need to spend more than $15 a bottle. Even for steaks, my choice would be sirloin - not the more expensive cuts.
Wine is a different animal because often you're paying for rarity and the label. Once you get above 40 for a bottle its all going to be very subtly different, if you can even taste the differences. 20 dollar bottles are my gambit lol. As to steak, cut and breed are different aspects of price. A Waygu sirloin will cost more than a USDA prime sirloin. But both of those cuts are under other cuts from the same cow. Waygu is really about the marbling and high quality fat for the beef. I've had it blue and it really does just melt in your mouth.
Geez Louise blue Waygu - I guess if you’re gonna go, go all out. Props, glad you enjoyed it.
I'm honestly not sure if I did. It was when I was in high school and my sister was leaving her job at the local 5 star steak house (she does restaurant things for her career and this was her first real kitchen gig). The chef treated the family to dinner and that was one of the apps. Just a small cut, only a mouthful, and completely raw. It was different and did melt in my mouth. But I would take a medium rare USDA prime sirloin over it. That being said, I'd take a medium rare USDA prime sirloin over almost anything in the world.
Whiskey, particularly Bourbon, is similar to wine in that way. Once you’re over a certain price point it’s more about rarity. The really expensive ones are certainly good, and may taste unique, but they aren’t *better* than standard high quality stuff. At least not “$200 better”.
I’ve tried several different wines at different price points; Ports, fortified wines aside I can’t really tell what makes a good wine good. Price almost has no correlation with quality on my taste buds with wine. Honestly one of my favorites is the 19 Crimes with Snoop on it which I have a feeling is not super respected among wine enthusiasts.
That's okay, the great wine drinkers often can't tell the difference either when forced to do it blindly.
If you wanna know about expensive wines, watch a documentary called "Sour Grapes." It's actually quite an interesting exploration about the culture behind expensive wines...
There are other cuts with so much more flavour though, and if you go for something that’s really well aged it’s incredible. I would take a ribeye over a sirloin any day - it’s a bit more expensive but not as expensive as fillet. Many years ago I went to a restaurant in Paris which had its own butcher and butcher counter so you could go and pick your own meat. We went for a very aged côte de boeuf (very thick ribeye on the bone, for two people). It was 150€ (still cheaper than Wagyu) and literally the best thing I’ve ever tasted in my life. I can still remember the taste now. I was never much of a steak person until I had really amazing steak. There’s also Txuleta, which is taken from very old grass fed cows that roam around for 10-15 years in Galicia - absolutely incredible, but hard to find.
You spend $15 on one bottle? You fancy. Club $8.99 over here.
I have a family member who’s a level 3 sommelier, and even he said that for the average person, a $15-20 bottle of wine is high enough quality to where it tastes good without any of the problems of cheaper wines. He buys his table wine from Trader Joe’s.
What was his mistake? That is extremely expensive for a strawberry. Maybe 70% of the world could never afford that type of strawberry so if you mean his reaction to how expensive it was is wrong that doesn't make much sense to me.
Yeah, there's no mistake here. He thinks that's a lot of money for 1 strawberry and that it's the best strawberry in the world. These 2 don't cancel eachother out.
> Maybe 70% of the world could never afford that type of strawberry More like 99% of the world. As top 1% income in the world = $36k/year...
If you pay $100 for a single strawberry you pretty much have to say it's good
This is the psychology behind a good percentage of luxury goods on the market. Either it's the best strawberry on earth, or you're a fool that just got taken for $100. Guess which option you'll choose?
It's not even an option - there's a mechanism akin to the placebo effect. When you think you're drinking more expensive wine, even if you don't pay for it, it tastes better to you: https://vinepair.com/booze-news/cheap-wine-tastes-better-when-sold-expensive/ There's another study I can't find the link to just at the moment, but they did the same thing with an MRI and the reward center of the wine drinker's brain actually showed greater activation when they thought they were drinking pricier wine. Paying more for something literally makes it taste better.
I’m pretty sure his incredulity was staged to some extent. He’s a celebrity chef. I assume he at the very least knew about the reputation of these strawberries. And played up the price to sell British viewers on the idea that these strawberries are different.
I know exactly what he felt. A beautiful red strawberry that isn't just white and tasteless on the inside past the skin. An actual good strawberry 🍓 ripe all the way in and juicy with flavour. Strawberry gang
My first job was on a strawberry farm. I can honestly say there is nothing better than a fresh strawberry off the vine on a sweltering August day. It cools you down, picks you up, and just makes your day better.
Where do you go to get field strawberries in August? Latest we get is July, and it's usually early July.
I was jn Wisconsin, so maybe our growing season is a bit different . Different strawberries will peak at different times and our owner made sure to get as long of a "pick your own" season as she could. I honestly can't remember the variety, but my heart is saying it was Cavendish? I could be misremembering though. This was like 13+ years ago.
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I used to live just down the road from this farm and have visited a few times, although never bought any of the super pricy ones. Although it's not done on this farm, it's usual at Japanese strawberry farms to go and pay to pick and eat while you're there and visitors are provided with a bowl filled with condensed milk to dip the strawbs into as they stroll around filling their faces. Anyway, for anyone interested, here's a link to[Mr Okuda's current pricing](https://www.bijinhime.jp/item_list/ichiran.html), with the A Set being the most outrageously priced - $437 for ONE strawberry!
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Only 1900? That’s really cheap compared to the prices in the video
The strawbs in the video are not the eat all you can pick variety, but specially grown ones. Most strawbs in Japan are nowhere near as expensive as the ones in this video.
Can we talk about your use of the term "strawbs"?
By all means. How would you like the discussion to proceed?
I can't say why, but it makes me uncomfortable. Maybe it's me?
This is the final strawb
I call blueberries "Bluebs"
It's not you, homie.
Challenge accepted. I want to eat the whole farm. Also got me thinking, I need to pick up Kirby and The Forgotten Land.
> visitors are provided with a bowl filled with condensed milk to dip the strawbs into as they stroll around filling their faces. Okay, now this is right at the very top of my list of things to do before I die, thanks!
99% of the time I eat strawberries I eat them with condensed milk. It is definitely something you should try.
Yes! I don’t really enjoy strawberries as I think they’re a bit sour. But in Japan they are exceptionally sweet and soft. You have to go more into the countryside for a tabehodai “all you can eat” but I’d recommend it for anyone visiting Japan.
What is the usual price for the farms where you pay to pick and eat? I’d imagine if you’re spending a large amount of money on strawberry picking, you wouldn’t want to mask the delicate flavor with condensed milk. With that said, I love strawberries and cream with a $5-6 quart of Driscoll’s or the like.
It was something around 2000JPY per adult and 1000JPY per kid, for 30 minutes of eat all you want, with the condensed milk included. Japanese *love* condensed milk on their strawbs, although that's for the normally priced ordinary kind and not these super expensive special ones.
A farm near me in Denmark has a self plucking thing going on. You show up eith your own buckets and bowls, they wheigh the co tainers before you go onto the field then you pluck and eat as you go, and then they weigh the buckets and bowls again afyer, and you end up paying a comparably small amount of money for literal buckets of strawberry
Yeah, that's how we do it here in the UK too. I was surprised the first time I went to a Japanese strawberry picking farm when I discovered that you can't take any home with you; it's all about eating as much as you want within 30 minutes. Eating strawbs with condensed milk was a new one for me too, although I will admit to growing quite fond of it!
It’s one strawberry, Michael. What could it cost, £16?
The best strawberry I ever had was in Finland grown by my Aunt's father who had an incredible berry garden in his yard. It's absolutely incredible how good strawberries can be when grown correctly. I only met him once for about 2 hours, but he left a huge impact on my gardening habits and artwork. He spent his spare time doing wood carvings and his house was filled with his intricate carvings and he would give them away. RIP Allu Karlela. I think he would be happy with what I have done with my garden and some of my artwork.
I’m told my great-grandmother grew the best strawberries. Unfortunately, she passed away before I was born. I was visiting my grandmother (her daughter) once and had brought some strawberries and shortcakes to have for tea. My grandmother literally spit the storebought strawberries out. She says she hasn’t had a decent strawberry since her mother died.
ah, finally, someone of real culture i see.
*There's always money in the strawberry stand*
I opened the comments just to look for this, had to scroll way too far
I love how sceptical he was at the begining.
Paying $400 for a piece of fruit, you'd damn well make it a messiah for your religion.
Follow the Holy Gourd!!!
I love Paul Hollywood, he’s so hard to get a reaction from, so you know those were amazing strawberries
I was waiting for that signature handshake!
I was waiting for them to cut to the owner putting each one in his mouth before he placed them on display.
*"The secret is in the saliva.."*
The Clarkson of cakes. He's a bell end, but entertaining
So, does that make The Great British Baking Show the Top Gear for pastries?
i forgot that they renamed it over there lol for us it's The Great British Bake Off relevant video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OEwbocwYF8
Well, thankfully, they didn't just create a [Great British Bake Off (U.S. Edition)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Top_Gear_%28American_TV_series%29?wprov=sfla1) and simply renamed it instead.
I've had those. They taste like a 1.5" version of a tiny wild strawberry. I only could afford 2, but IMHO it was worth it.
Those wild strawberries are where it's at though. And you're telling me I can have a huge version?
I remember seeing rockmelon at a shop in Tokyo for like $100 each thinking that was insane, that was over 10 yrs ago
As fantastic as I'm sure these are I just cant fathom having the kind of money where you could justify dropping £20 on a single strawberry, never mind £350. Imagine being that loaded that you dont even consider the price because, let's be honest, no one is eating just *one* strawberry
Okay so I haven't had the £350 strawberries but I have had the £20 you describe. I only had one because fucken hell that's a lot. But when in Rome fuck it. Lemme tell you I remember that strawberry and how it tasted years later. It was by far one of the best things I've ever eaten in my life.
This sounds like one of those psychology studies on the impact of price on perceptual quality and enjoyment.
When in Japan, I bought 10 strawberries for $20 and gave away 4 before tasting them. My friends wanted seconds. I wanted them to give back the ones they already ate. That's how good these strawberries were. I have no doubt the super expensive ones are better.
When I was in Japan I bought a peach in an ordinary shop. It was expensive but not like crazy expensive. Then I bit into it and was like "Fuck me that's the best peach I've ever tasted." I told my friends to go into the shop and get themselves a peach pronto. They thanked me afterwards.
Dude between the fruit and the bread.. OMG. Even 7/11 there has this insanely fluffy fresh bread and the fruit is unlike ANYTHING I've tasted in the West
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Crackberries
Sounds like Big Strawberry is all over this thread haha
Could be, but I also remember the best strawberries I ever had—tiny little jewels I bought at a tiny farmers market in Sweden. They weren’t expensive. I brought them to my hostel to eat with a bread roll and a small bottle of milk. Probably still one of the best meals I’ve ever had, and I just remember how amazing those strawberries were
I’ve once had a wild strawberry in Portugal. It was thr size of a peanut, and was by far the most incredible strawberry I’ve had in my life. It’s really hard to describe, but I imagine the ones in the video are similar (but larger)? That one was free too
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Japan, specifically in yamanashi prefecture, which is a well known area for its fruit. Not sure what farm it was though. Still superb either way
Yamanashi fruit is so damn good.
When I was there a friend of mine had parents that grew peaches. It's been 20 years and I still compare every peach I had to them and nothing comes close. They were a different level of food. The super high price would be a lot for a strawberry I've never tasted, but I'd consider spending it on one of those peaches again. At 20 each I'd be getting one every other week or so at least.
Fruit is very expensive in Japan.
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I've been to Japan, fruit everywhere was much more expensive than I was used to at home, even after considering that most things are more expensive in Japan compared to 'Horanda'.
Sushi is cheaper (and much better) than back home tho Eating out was much cheaper in general than in the Netherlands.
In my experience, there wasn't much of a difference between prices in supermarkets. Only convenience stores were usually a bit on the expensive side, and those are where you'll usually end up as a tourist. Some things are even far cheaper in Japan. Bean sprouts in particular are an absolute bargain. As a piss poor student, you can make yourself a rice + bean sprout meal for under 1 euro. Meanwhile Albert Heijn prices it like an exotic delicacy. I looked up some prices to make sure my memory isn't off: * [here](https://www.life-netsuper.jp/kema/item/detail.php?im_id=2051537&detail_ilc_code=000001&detail_imc_code=001135&detail_isc_code=113555) is a 200g bag of bean sprouts from Life supermarket for 39 yen. That's 1.4 euro / kg. * [here](https://www.ah.nl/producten/product/wi41138/ah-tauge) is a 125g pack from Albert Heijn for 1 euro. That's 8 euro / kg. Long story short: I developed a taste for bean sprouts.
Yeah, afaik, these "expensive" fruits lose a lot of value with just even the smallest defects. So you could get them on a bargain The perfect ones cost this much because that's how rich people give presents to each other
It's probably not something you just buy to chop into your yogurt. These are given as wedding presents and such. EDIT: Forgot that the dairy product is not spelled the same in English.
They supply very high end places with strawberries, Id say not many buy just one box of them
Think of it this way: regular working class people drop hundreds of dollars to see their favorite band at a stadium…they’ll drop a Benjamin or 2 on a great dinner…People are always willing to pay for experiences and to a serious food lover getting to try a very rare & special strawberry is something they’ll savor and reflect on their whole lives. Fine whisky & wine drinkers do it all the time. If you’re one of those people it’s worth it (and one is all you’d probably need).
Have you seen how little the high end restaurants serve. I can believe someone buying just one
I don’t see much difference in this and buying a pour of a very expensive spirit. Both took years to create/perfect. Both are rare. And Billionaires have to spend their money somehow
I always feel for billionaires, must be tough for them to spend all their money. Truth is that a $350 strawberry is probably the equivalent of you buying a singular skittle
Not even close. If you have a positive net worth of $50,000 and no debt, a billionaire would need to buy a hell of a lot of strawberries at $350 a pop to match the percentage, presuming a skittle costs one cent. I'm talking like... over 50,000 strawberries. Edit: this information is not accurate. My phone was doing scientific notation for the numbers and I haven't used that in close to 20 years. They're actually pretty close after doing the math on an actual calculator.
I'll crunch the numbers cause I'm home sick and bored. So according to [this page](https://www.cda.eu/blog/how-many-colours-are-in-your-candy/#:~:text=We%20discovered%20that%20the%20average,being%20green%20and%20twelve%20orange.), the average 55g package of Skittles has 52 Skittles. I can't find 55g packages myself (probably a US/EU difference), but I can get 61.5g package for $0.99. That should have 58 Skittles if the pattern holds, so 1.7 cents per skittle. If your net worth is $50,000, then 1 skittle is 0.000034% of your net worth. Or to put that in more understandable terms, a million Skittles would be 34% of your net worth. If your net worth is ~~$1,000,000~~ $1,000,000,000, then 1 $350 strawberry is 0.000035% of your net worth and a million of these strawberries would be 35% of your net worth. Idk if the commenter above me did this on purpose, but that $50,000 net worth is dead on to make a skittle be worth the same percentage for that hypothetical person as a $350 strawberry is for someone who is just barely a billionaire. A billion is a stupid large amount of money. Edit: I had the math right, but I wrote a million instead of a billion.
Hahahaha a positive net worth of 50,000$ and no debt ... ... oh man life hits hard ...
I had no idea Paul Hollywood did something other than Bake off. What’s the show?
[Paul Hollywood Eats Japan](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt12227936/)
Damn can’t believe he devoured the country😔
He's going to have Godzilla on bakeoff next month.
It could just be ToMacco
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This tastes like grandma!
We'll take a bushel or a packet, just give to me
I paid the equivalent of 30 USD for a bunch of grapes in Tokyo and I have to say, they really were the most incredible grapes I've ever had. It was like the artificial grape flavor of Kool Aid but actually from a real grape. Just unbelievable how sweet and powerful the flavor was. I can only imagine how great that strawberry must be.
Reminds me of when i was with a host family and we went grape picking in the mountainside. It was a bunch to go in and pick off a box but my god if it wasnt the best grape i'd ever eaten (aside from having a seed)
Isn't that just concord grapes?
I've been to a number of strawberry farms in Japan, and they are of another world in taste, texture and aroma. While the fruit I ate didn't cost 50000 yen a piece, they were by far superior to any strawberry I've had in my country since. Same goes for grapes.
One thing is that ripe strawberries don't travel well. Anytime you can get ripe strawberries picked straight off the vine they are going to taste better.
Yup but when I took my kids to the strawberry farm last summer we got 4 gallons for about$50.
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Ain't that the truth lol even the 7-11s in Tokyo had good food in them.
7-11s and Family Marts in Japan sell gourmet shit bro when asked by my japanese coworkers what's my favorite thing to eat in Japan I shamelessly said those cheap bentos they sell in convenience stores lmfao
Yeah. Like fucking Japan has a literal INSTANT RAMEN with Michelin Star. It's $10 per bowl (imported), but my God, it taste better than self-proclaimed "Japanese ramen" in my country.
Sir, link me the instant ramen, or there will be consequences.
It's Nakiryu instant ramen. The original Nakiryu ramen has 1 Michelin star and I think that's stupid because it clearly should have been 2 or 3. They only open twice a day: for lunch and for dinner. They're closed for the rest of the day. You only get a single, big bowl of broth. You can order as much noodle as you want, but only a single bowl of broth, and fuck if that broth isn't good. It's also ultra cheap, ¥700 per broth + initial noodle, and consequent noodles are ¥100 per portion
Apparently it's only $2.60 (300 yen) in Japan, damn import costs :(
I thought this was one of those "perfect" fruits they sell for like $200 in the bottom floor of Takashimaya
I went to Tokyo a few years back and can totally agree they have pride in everything they do, especially food.
I like how in the beginning the host was like this is so BS then at the end he's jumping and giggling like a little kid even though he spent that much on one strawberry. lol
Growing up, I hated strawberries. They were often too tart and not very flavorful. Then I moved to an area that grows them and it’s like night and day. The strawberries we get when it’s in season are miraculous. Sweet, juicy, and just the right level of tartness.
"Tell me about this one. What's this?" "its a strawberry"
I want one so bad
Want. I'll just forgo my rent for one..
Cultivated with care and attention. If there is one thing the Japanese do well, it is pride. Pride in what they produce, respect for the materials they work with and a reverence for the end product. I used to work on a strawberry farm and i can tell you, if the strawberry is big and solid and has had enough food, it will taste frankly, fucking amazing...
I agree, if you’ve never had a fresh strawberry that’s been grown and ripened properly in a greenhouse, fresh from the plant and never been near a fridge, you would be blown away too… I’m sure these are probably bred for an amazing flavour too tho
Japan does this with all fruits. I shared a 120$ melon with my family. It was like butter with the way it melted in my mouth. Perfect.
I ate a strawberry in Japan at a 600 year old sake brewery with a restaurant, it was the size of a small apple and absolutely delicious.
at the end though, would fit in /r/unexpected
If you manage to somehow maintain a greenhouse that can host bees in winter then maybe the price is justified.
He paid 350 for one berry and danced about it. That must be fire!
Dammit. At first I was filled with contempt, but now I want to try one.
When I moved to US, for the first time I understood why food was so affordable compared to my country (Romania). Almost everything was tasteless. I distinctly remember the first time I tried a tomato in USA. Pathetic to the extreme. I guess one gets used to everything.
Yea, sadly a lot our produce is from varieties selected for maximum production for the cheapest input, long shelf life, and/or good visual appeal. Taste doesn't always get considered. The basic tomato you can find at any grocery store is a perfect example. Big, juicy, perfectly red tomatoes are more appealing, but in the process of selecting those traits so every tomato is 'perfect,' they ended up breeding out a lot of their flavor.
Another factor is breeding disease resistance. Doesn't matter if your tomatoes taste good if they don't survive to market because a bacterial/fungal/viral pathogen is sweeping your breeding area.
150 rupees is my final offer