I tried some melons in Hokkaido. They weren't as expensive as the ones shown here, but the stands sold melons by the slices, ranging from $7 to $12 a slice. I went with one in the middle and it was incredibly good. I don't even like melons but it tasted like healthy Hi-Chew candy. It's difficult to express how good it was but Japanese fruit is just different.
@Notorious 885 You think Democrats are the ones having all the kids? Who's growing all the soy corn and wheat that's lead to this massive global population boom, you think farmers are mostly Democrats these days? You have absolutely no clue about anything if you believe this.
Narrator: and they grow the melon like their sons or daughters. The actual son and daughter: my dad left to take care of the melons when I was born, and I havent seen him since.
@@mahdyfouad Well in some countries like mine too ' the price is twice (due to government taxes) for non-native brands ' I assume you suffer the same ' still the reliability paysoff though (for now atleast !
@@NordeggSonya Well in some countries like mine too ' the price is twice (due to government taxes) for non-native brands ' I assume you suffer the same ' still the reliability paysoff though (for now atleast !
I want to see a comparison between Melons that are cared for like in the video and like 50% less cared for and 90% cared less for. And then a blindfolded taste comparision haha
That would be fun. A lot of comments claim the Japanese melons taste better. I question if that's because they spent a lot of money, so they savored the melon more than they would have if it was cheap.
A lot of the effort seems to be to preserve the external appearance. It’s fair to assume that the same taste could be achieved with much less effort if this were disregarded
I bet them to try Afghan melon vs tvis over drama art japanese melon blindfolded. I feel Afghan melon will b king or they might get confuse which one is better than the other😂😂.
😂😂 How can all of India smell like dog shit? do we have more dogs than humans? or are you a very big idiot! it's simple we have different areas, rural and urban and standard of living differs too but the diversity is what makes us beautiful!
I received a Melon for some celebration from colleagues. I told my French husband that the price of melon was more than 10,000 yen ($ 85) after he made melon juice. He was astonished and asked me to do not tell my colleagues he made juice.
For my 18th birthday (years back) my mum and I took a trip to Japan and instead of having birthday cake, I bought a 5200 yen melon and carried it like a baby all the way back to Singapore. It was great, the best fruit I've had in my life and I still think about it from time to time. I've had other cheaper Japanese melons after and they were good, but didn't come close to the first one. Its hard to imagine a melon that can taste better than that. There is a point though where quality hits its max and the price you pay just isn't worth it anymore but it is difficult to find that point.
So basically in Japan these melons are status symbols and a monopoly controls the market to keep prices high. The Japanese are doing with melons, what the De Beers Group did with diamonds 130 years ago. Control the supply, use marketing to create high demand, profit.
@Nick F I've seen people put more effort into growing weed than these melons. Their price reflects the supply that's artificially limited, but lets not pretend a melon is really worth 25k.
@Nick F Art appreciates, has historical and cultural value. It's seen as a investment in many cases. Melons just rot. These melons are sold at a huge markup because the ultra rich like the pattern on the skin. It's just rich people trying to impress other rich people and the vast majority of consumers around the world would say these melons aren't worth what they're being sold for.
Picked up a Higo Green melon at one of the Reganet grocery stores where I live near in Japan. I’m from Canada and didn’t think a 700 yen melon would be that great.. boy was I wrong. It was single-handedly the best piece of fruit I have ever tasted.. And that was a cheap melon from these standards! I was blown away
I live in Chile and during summer, I can pay around 0.5 dolar x 1 melon, or even 3 melons for 2 dolars, depending on the size. I can even pay 0.2 dolar for a old one (not rotten) so I can make juice. Sometimes they gone bad and we just throw them away. Same with grapes, they are super cheap. I love my country 🇨🇱😄
Buying fruit is a lottery. Sometimes u get average fruit, but sometimes u eat a really really good fruit. And I am ok with it. To know the sweet fruit u need to taste the average fruit first. Also the not so good fruit is still healthy
I think you’re missing the point, this is fruit that is nurtured to perfection. We get unbelievably cheap mangos here in Australia when they are in season but they will never come close to what these growers in Japan can achieve.
@@happyhuman7555 wait one piece of normal Musk Melon costs 75 rs in the Market and it's not even Organic. 1 $ is like 73 rs so how did you get a Melon for 0.1 dollar.
@@MGM_Think having a farm to do money laundry leaves traces and cannot get the estate property away easily when being discovered. A better way is transferring ownerships of animals, like dogs -- a method that in at least one country has been applied for quite a long time... how can law officials question if the buyers' affection to the dogs isn't worth the money?
we have a saying here in greece that fits perfectly. "its like selling you sea weed like they were silk ribbons". but i bet the japanese will find a way to price sea weed more than diamonds.
activelink activdisc apple sells good technology for our entertainment but $200 dollars for a fruit ,that’s crazy,so 6 melons 🍈 have the same price as the last iPhone 😂
Yep - spread enough bullshit and suckers will virtually leap up out of the ground to eat it. I've grown those melons and it's as simply as just throwing some seeds on the ground and giving them a bit of water. The weirdest thing , however, is this: Japanese tourists have come here to Australian and been offered exactly the same melons and they knock it back because they don't like the taste of them! All of this polishing and wrapping and pruning is all bullshit - they have created a false market for a product that is virtually as cheap as chips Just like the false diamond market.
Everything in Japan is much more affordable than in the US lol. You can get a nice healthy bento meal for $5 there, you can only get shitty fast food here. Housing is much cheaper too. Nobody in Japan's eatin $25,000 melons on the regular lmaooo
@Despacito? Ka-chow RUclips deleted my comment because it doesn't like me linking to the website directly, but Hotto Motto has bentos that have rice, veggies, fish & meat for $5. They're a pretty popular chain around Japan. Not to mention you can buy a good combination of healthy foods from a Japanese convenience store for ~$6. In America you're severely limited, even Whole Foods "make your salad bar" things that are few and far-between are easily $10+. Having lived 7+ years in both countries I think it's inarguable that it's much easier to eat healthier in Japan than in America. And that's reflected on the obesity rates too.
This is not a watermelon this is from melon family and is commonly called muskmelon some species of muskmelons are very cheap you can buy bunch of em in 50 dollars
@@ncgpheonix8974 japan produces high quality shits and overrated at the same time I tasted these expensive melons twice and they are damn good but not 300x the price good.
@@percyjcksson9401 I am a nerd actually lol. Proud graduate with master degree in Computer science. I could probably buy you and your family a better house than you’re living in right now. What about you?
It most likely doesn't taste much different than the regular ones. And you'd be shocked to know that some end up tasting worse. It's mostly made for its looks. ruclips.net/video/QF695hR5ysc/видео.html
Not mentioned in this video but ordinary Japanese melons are sold 3 dollars in supermarket. 99% of Japanese have never experienced such expensive melons. However some luxury fruit shops are selling expensive products which tastes far more sweet than ordinary ones. I never buy luxury fruits for myself but consider as a gift coz its miracle sweet will surprize you. These days Chinese tourists come to get the luxury ones for souvenir.
"pouring water on the melons by hand makes these melons expensive" Me: *looks at the giant climate-controlled greenhouse, super low yield due to one melon per plant, and all the hand care combined* Yep, sure, it's the hand watering of the melons making it expensive lol
its expensive because they probably have to hire people to do that, so that means you gotta pay them hourly then pay their health insurance and then pay taxes for employing them... so yeah thats probably why its the most expensive process.
Still not reasonable. This melon we can eat and we can memorized how good it taste in entire life. Apple's stand just a piece of steel/aloy, unnecessary product.
the whole point is demenad and supply... the supplier can make some number and the one who buy is for business propose. which also can be add to company expense.... so basicity it not a commercial good.
@@tlahuicolexiii2844 You should eat one first before calling people idiots. They're extremely sweet and flavorful unlike the cheap melons we buy at the markets. If you have money to spend and had one of these you'll never eat regular ones again.
@@richardphillips-ludwigwell3337 wow what a way to describes people taste. When people got too much money they start to wonder how to spend their money and this people capitalize on the rich pride and wealth by making these stuff looks extraordinary when its not. Iam fully aware that such difference in quality will be present but to make it that expensive ? Seems like an unnecessary "Pride Tax" there.
After watching this channel I realized anything that costs dearly is because there are people willing to pay for it not that it's worth it or something
If you think about it you aren’t buying one melon, you’re buying ALL the melons that one vine would EVER have produced because they cut them all off except the best one.
This looks a lot like the diamond industry, a regulating authority artificially inflating value though control and convincing people to spend huge amounts of money on things which would be otherwise low value.
I think that’s half of it but u most definitely have to consider the growing process, the time it takes to grow, and cost of production. They definitely shouldn’t be as mush as they are tho that’s obvious
it isn't really an apples to apples comparison, regular people still buy generic melons (though having to import them from south america and else do still make them expensive), this kind of luxury melons are usually just given as present for ceremonial occasions, such as closing a hefty business deal with another company president etc, or for the rich stuff such as having moved into a very expensive condo, etc. it isn't that different from gifting very old whiskey or other such expensive drinks in America, if you think about it why would anyone pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for a bottle of decomposed grain juice? it is just a ceremonial gift for those that can afford it
I mean you don’t have to buy them but in this instance there’s a turn around to your idea it’s technically speaking cheap to get diamonds it’s the amount that’s controlled however this becomes expensive based on what the judges and test think, the sheer amount of work put in it (which if you’ve ever ran a business you know a lot of the time salaries are the most expensive part but a really necessary one) and the rate of failure as well makes it quite expensive along with the actual rarity of getting a perfect melon which is way harder than cutting diamonds into the perfect shape. Not everything is the same in some ways yes it’s the same but this also has different factors which you can argue can justify the price tag
@@katatat2030 ; if you could honestly describe the taste. Do they both taste like melons, i mean one could be sweeter, have a beautiful fragrance etc. How big a difference do you see and if you care to explain to someone who hasn't tasted one.
Haha when we were kids before fruit was shipped freely Interstate, we would visit my grandparents in Queensland and there are photos of us on the back steps near the canals, the kids gorging on watermelon and my Dad literally covered in mango juice. Am old enough to remember when you only ate local season fruits and vegetables because the shipping costs were so high to get anything off season or from other parts of the country.
@@adrienneclarke3953 Same here, In my childhood, no way our child have to spend money on fruit like mango, guava... we only eat every wild fruit available like guava or simply stole some mangoes or corn from our neighbor
BoxStudioExecutive no, it’s actually because the bank zombies that appeared after the mid 1990s housing bubble collapsed. Basically debt ridden banks that are kept afloat by the Government plus investors confidence that the Government will bail them out.
This really explains the concept of KODAWARI.Or this whole series by Insider is really about Kodawari. The general meaning is a relentless pursuit of precision, quality, attention to detail and craftsmanship in one’s work, craft, or endeavor.
For me.. Even if they are literally licking them every single day in order to make them clean and shiny.. That's will never be enough to justify the crazy price.. That's in my humble opinion.
These melons are grown to near perfection and used as gifts. I think it is good since it is these small scale farmers who can profit from their hard work and dedication to their craft. I rather get a perfect melon than a diamond ring lol.
Me : I should study.
RUclips : why are melons so expensive?
Me : Good Question
Japanese melons. Not just melons!
Maybe that's why you can't study. You don't pay attention!
Women have expensive melons too!
Omg ...this is exactly what happend to me ... I have microbiology exam tomorrow, it's already after midnight, and here I AM
shko ata goodluck mate
The price of a Musk Melon is so expensive even a billionare can't buy it
Yeah it's a joke
these melons grew up in a more loving home than I did
Michelle K 😂 ikr
that's exactly what i was thinking lol
That's life
You know why? Because you are a not money.
Ikr
Last night my family bought a melon and now we're living on the streets
#normiejokes
lol
But hey ... atleast now you can show off to all the hobos with that nice melon
😂😂😂😂😂
you are soo lucky i wish i could get one and starve for the rest of my life
Japan has perfected the art of making unimportant things extremely important and expensive
iT tAkeS YearS tO MAstEr
yes, accurate.
maybe they see melon as art 😂😂
I mean, if you can sell a melon for $45,000 why tf not, lol 😂
Yea and downside is our food are super expensive. Upside is one of the best national healthcare with very little tax
A wonderful dilemma if you’re trying to paint this as some sort of issue. Japanese culture >
Thief breaks into house
Me: protects melon at all cost
Lol good one 😂😂 its true it will be the must expensive thing In the house.. Maybe 😂😂😂
Just eat it to ensure the protection
Oh lol, I dint see that One Coming.
🤣🤣::))... oui ... at all cost
Oh no, the thief brought knife! Form human shields for the melons!!
Air conditioning??? Melons living better than me
Daily care + hand massages living better than all of us
He was massaging melons😃
😂😂😂😂 live better than everyone
Cause you are not worth 5 million yen....lol
Game1 mail kidneys are
Mom: study hard in school kids!
Kids: why?
Mom: so you can buy a $45,000 melon when you’re older
Or just study to become a melon farmer in school and sell $45,000 melons.
LOL!
XD
@@dav2300 shut up kid
@@nativetube What about you to shut up, don‘t tell someone to shut up♻️
I tried some melons in Hokkaido. They weren't as expensive as the ones shown here, but the stands sold melons by the slices, ranging from $7 to $12 a slice. I went with one in the middle and it was incredibly good. I don't even like melons but it tasted like healthy Hi-Chew candy. It's difficult to express how good it was but Japanese fruit is just different.
American fruit tastes like medicine
In inidya we schit on the road
@@conjurorofcheaptricks8944 you probably have store bought fruit then
@@conjurorofcheaptricks8944 American fruit is the most bland fruit I’ve ever eaten! Looks amazing though!
@Notorious 885 You think Democrats are the ones having all the kids? Who's growing all the soy corn and wheat that's lead to this massive global population boom, you think farmers are mostly Democrats these days? You have absolutely no clue about anything if you believe this.
Narrator: and they grow the melon like their sons or daughters.
The actual son and daughter: my dad left to take care of the melons when I was born, and I havent seen him since.
lol... this comment is underrated
im so jealous of my melon sister!
@@ffirstcomment have you met her?
;-;
@@ffirstcomment does she have melons
Shiit these melons better be giving me super powers
Iryoku the only thing you’ll get is debt
devil fruits??
lol lol
@@elma4980 student loans will take care of that.
It'll cure your Erectile Dysfunction you've been chatting about on reddit.
So this is why Doraemon and Nobita were so happy when their dad brought a melon home from work.
That is exactly what I was thinking 😂
😂i was thinking the same
Even i was thinking the same😂
Meee too!
i didnt see that episode
Toyota so far seems the only Japanese thing with a reasonable price !!
Not in Canada! (how I wish!)
not in egypt
@@mahdyfouad Well in some countries like mine too ' the price is twice (due to government taxes) for non-native brands ' I assume you suffer the same ' still the reliability paysoff though (for now atleast !
@@NordeggSonya Well in some countries like mine too ' the price is twice (due to government taxes) for non-native brands ' I assume you suffer the same ' still the reliability paysoff though (for now atleast !
Toyotas are hugely overpriced! I dont understand were you get reasonable price from... Doing drugs much?
They grow melons like their sons and daughters
And sell them
( 5:34 )
meanwhile them messicans laughin their way to market mwhahah, love me some 2$ melons ill eat the hell outta them
ur devil 😈
Wtf on the bottom text 😂
But ya it's really true, very expensive fruits on here
Tnx god that im not near those stupid farmers. If not their melon will end in their ass 😏
Devils Souls yea, those farmers would sh!t themselves when they see a keyboard warrior
Narrator: "The melons are grown and cared for entirely by hand."
Photosynthesis: "am I a joke to you?"
Underrated comment award
*yes*
LMAO
Hahahahahhahaa
🤣🤣🤣
Everywhere else: food
Japan: ✨aesthetics✨
Nothing wrong with sourcing the finest genetics for food.
aesthetics for 5 minutes then you eat it and throw out the "polished exterior that made them expensive". Insanity at its finest xDDDDD
I'm more into Japanese Female Melons... 😎🔥
@@lgbm777 You do know fruits are plant ovaries
I want to see a comparison between Melons that are cared for like in the video and like 50% less cared for and 90% cared less for. And then a blindfolded taste comparision haha
That would be fun. A lot of comments claim the Japanese melons taste better. I question if that's because they spent a lot of money, so they savored the melon more than they would have if it was cheap.
A lot of the effort seems to be to preserve the external appearance. It’s fair to assume that the same taste could be achieved with much less effort if this were disregarded
I bet them to try Afghan melon vs tvis over drama art japanese melon blindfolded. I feel Afghan melon will b king or they might get confuse which one is better than the other😂😂.
Imagine working so hard for the whole year and you still can't afford a melon.
Wow that's actually true for most people lol
imagine being a poor
Apple
That the economic price buy seeds and grow them at home.
@@alipetuniashow their hard to grow it's not like were native americans
America: Gucci Gang Gucci Gang Gucci Gang/ Spent three racks on a new chain
Japan: Fuji Gang Fuji Gang Fuji Gang/ Spent forty five racks on a melon
Piano Roots Music *on two melons
@@fmga A GREAT PRICE
👌
Piano Roots Music HAHAHAHAH TRUE. JAPAN FLEXES BETTER AND HARDER THAN AMERICANS 😂😂👌🏼👌🏼👌🏼
I HAVE TWO....MELONS!!
In India, 🍈 Melons cost at just $ 1 per Kg and those are extremely delicious too!
💪🇮🇳
@Tastor*STFU*
@Tastor oof buuuuuurn
@Tastor that's y u funky good for nothing foreigners come here ...
😂😂 How can all of India smell like dog shit? do we have more dogs than humans? or are you a very big idiot! it's simple we have different areas, rural and urban and standard of living differs too but the diversity is what makes us beautiful!
I received a Melon for some celebration from colleagues. I told my French husband that the price of melon was more than 10,000 yen ($ 85) after he made melon juice. He was astonished and asked me to do not tell my colleagues he made juice.
Yeah you're not supposed to make juice out of those fruit gifts.
As a latin american that sounds kind of funny to me considering almost everyday I drink melon juice or any other natural fruit juice
When life gives you melon, pray that you're in Japan.
Lol
Or you could just be dyslexic
Just do all of this in order to sell it in high price ! Very common strategy of Japanese !
@@leejang2311 Actually Japanese make EVERYTHING into art form. Even growing fruit.
@burn woods “I’d rather get a 1$ melon for free than one over 1000$; For free.”
RUclips : Why are melons so expensive?
Me at 2:30 am : Why
are they so expensive? I must know. I need to know.
Now we all know, fuji 0.1% this will be important later.
Ashli Reneé 😂
me rn
Ashli Reneé 5 am. Work in two hours. Zero minutes of sleep....
It’s 4:33. And I started looking for a comment about how I’m watching this so late. Piss on the video.
$45,000.00?!!!
Are they watered with unicorn tears and fertilized with fairy crap?!!
no, they use fairy tears and unicorn crap
Nah it’s just a publicity stunt
Juan M. Diaz epic & lovely!
That's someone yearly income. Crazy😳
Juan M. Diaz try it and the taste is different than any melons
For my 18th birthday (years back) my mum and I took a trip to Japan and instead of having birthday cake, I bought a 5200 yen melon and carried it like a baby all the way back to Singapore. It was great, the best fruit I've had in my life and I still think about it from time to time. I've had other cheaper Japanese melons after and they were good, but didn't come close to the first one. Its hard to imagine a melon that can taste better than that. There is a point though where quality hits its max and the price you pay just isn't worth it anymore but it is difficult to find that point.
You could have saved the seeds
"Hi, yes, I'll get the fruit salad."
"Fantastic choice! That'll be $114,000! How will you be paying?"
ill be paying my entire soul and il also pay for the 20% tip for your waiter service with my entire family
Of course, gimme your kidney then sell it
Cancel it and get a glass of water
So you’re saying, that you will use more than two whole melons?
"with my anus, please"
Me: sees it
Me: likes it
Me: checks price
Me: puts it back
Clash Smashing 😂
Getting '7 rings' vibes😂😂😂
im definitely not even touching it, let alone pick it you
😆
Fruit fall off shelf.
Pay $45,000.
Eat melon in tears.
So basically in Japan these melons are status symbols and a monopoly controls the market to keep prices high. The Japanese are doing with melons, what the De Beers Group did with diamonds 130 years ago. Control the supply, use marketing to create high demand, profit.
Glad I'm not the only person that immediately thought of De Beers
@Nick F I've seen people put more effort into growing weed than these melons. Their price reflects the supply that's artificially limited, but lets not pretend a melon is really worth 25k.
@Nick F Lots of time goes into mining and cutting diamonds as well, but that doesn't mean the price is not inflated.
mangos are 500 a piece too. so if u vegetarian ur dead
@Nick F Art appreciates, has historical and cultural value. It's seen as a investment in many cases. Melons just rot. These melons are sold at a huge markup because the ultra rich like the pattern on the skin. It's just rich people trying to impress other rich people and the vast majority of consumers around the world would say these melons aren't worth what they're being sold for.
Picked up a Higo Green melon at one of the Reganet grocery stores where I live near in Japan. I’m from Canada and didn’t think a 700 yen melon would be that great.. boy was I wrong.
It was single-handedly the best piece of fruit I have ever tasted..
And that was a cheap melon from these standards! I was blown away
These melons need so much careful attention
4:37 almost slaps melon
Tygo Erprath Farmer: This melon can feed so many millionares.
He was trying to play it off, but I saw him acknowledge it
I think $3 for a melon is outrageous... $45,000 that’s a whole college tuition for a fruit
Edelyn N i feel you
Exactly and you still have a lot of money left
You have big lips
broke ass
You're lucky to live in a time that fruit is cheap. 100 years ago pineapple was $50.
Why don't Melons get married?
They just Cantaloupe
Kevin Mai this comment needs more recognition. 10/10
ba dum tss! 🥁
Kevin Mai stfu lol 😂
😂🤦♀️😂this fruit get treated like royalty how flattering for the melons.
面白い!
I live in Chile and during summer, I can pay around 0.5 dolar x 1 melon, or even 3 melons for 2 dolars, depending on the size. I can even pay 0.2 dolar for a old one (not rotten) so I can make juice. Sometimes they gone bad and we just throw them away. Same with grapes, they are super cheap.
I love my country 🇨🇱😄
Buying fruit is a lottery. Sometimes u get average fruit, but sometimes u eat a really really good fruit.
And I am ok with it. To know the sweet fruit u need to taste the average fruit first. Also the not so good fruit is still healthy
Yea my thoughts exactly
I think you’re missing the point, this is fruit that is nurtured to perfection. We get unbelievably cheap mangos here in Australia when they are in season but they will never come close to what these growers in Japan can achieve.
choose wisely:
1 22k melon
22 1k screen stand
Lmao apple screen stand!!
I'd rather take the melon then the overpriced apple rubbish lol
Bruh if u decide to buy either seek help and buy some brain cells
Or 100 pocophone
Screen stand
I grow melons at home and after watching this i only look at them with disgust
I grow too and was thinking I’d love to buy one just for the seeds and start growing some myself
@@quinn9310 that means that you are going to sell your house or a kidney?
poor melon lol
🤣 Don't do that!
Lmfao
5:46 This sentence is pretty much the entire industry summed up. "They ensure the price stays high"
Sounds like some yakuza shit to me
This kind of detailing and presentation makes a product exotic and priceless💎
5:18 look they even give the melons newspaper to read!
Lmao bro good job buddy😂
😂😂😂😂
This is probably a joke, if it is don’t woosh me, but I’m positive they wrap it with newspaper to protect it from flies or other bugs
@@oaverage_bird r/woooosh
Sorry I couldn't contain myself-
@@Autchoiiy *I just said don’t whoosh me.*
And here i am purchasing 2 melons for 1.50$
Yeah and you made the right decision
Here in india organically grown melon cost 0.1$ per melon
@@happyhuman7555 nice
Here 0.49cents🤣🤣🤣
@@happyhuman7555 wait one piece of normal Musk Melon costs 75 rs in the Market and it's not even Organic. 1 $ is like 73 rs so how did you get a Melon for 0.1 dollar.
People: money has value because we give it value
Japan: allowed us to introduce ourselves
Everything from Japan is perfect and excellent.They make anything so nice and with care so they are expensive 🎌🎌🇯🇵🇯🇵
"So what is it, that makes this fruit so expensive?" = Humans!
Riight
Money laundry.
Farmers footsteps
@@MGM_Think having a farm to do money laundry leaves traces and cannot get the estate property away easily when being discovered. A better way is transferring ownerships of animals, like dogs -- a method that in at least one country has been applied for quite a long time... how can law officials question if the buyers' affection to the dogs isn't worth the money?
Everything is worth what you are willing to pay for it!
Apple:Our products are very expensive and ridiculous
Japan melons: Finally a worthy opponent
Japan will launch its very first Musk Melon products on Laptop, Mobile Phones
Japan grapes... and I took that personal.
Lol
$45,000 could feed me for many years. Or I could spend on one melon. The stress of decision is real. 🙂
Lol
lovemoviesful2 😂
Bro, it's two melons, now that is an enticing deal
ding dong someone’s tilted
@activelink activdisc I can't eat a monitor sir. I'd go for the melon instead. 😋
we have a saying here in greece that fits perfectly.
"its like selling you sea weed like they were silk ribbons".
but i bet the japanese will find a way to price sea weed more than diamonds.
0:16 "So what is it that makes this fruit so expensive?" My first thought was ridiculous stupidity then I saw the video, and I realized I was correct.
@activelink activdisc More stupidity? Doesnt make his comment invalid you are just giving more examples.
activelink activdisc lol stupid
activelink activdisc apple sells good technology for our entertainment but $200 dollars for a fruit ,that’s crazy,so 6 melons 🍈 have the same price as the last iPhone 😂
@@maxali5320 apple sells overpriced junk
Yep - spread enough bullshit and suckers will virtually leap up out of the ground to eat it. I've grown those melons and it's as simply as just throwing some seeds on the ground and giving them a bit of water. The weirdest thing , however, is this: Japanese tourists have come here to Australian and been offered exactly the same melons and they knock it back because they don't like the taste of them! All of this polishing and wrapping and pruning is all bullshit - they have created a false market for a product that is virtually as cheap as chips Just like the false diamond market.
There should be a sub series called “Why everything in Japan are so expensive”!!!
well, living there costs a lot, its normal for them but expensive for tourist
Because everything is Japan is run by the "MAFIA".
Everything in Japan is much more affordable than in the US lol. You can get a nice healthy bento meal for $5 there, you can only get shitty fast food here. Housing is much cheaper too.
Nobody in Japan's eatin $25,000 melons on the regular lmaooo
@Despacito? Ka-chow a $5 Big Mac isn't that healthy is it?
@Despacito? Ka-chow RUclips deleted my comment because it doesn't like me linking to the website directly, but Hotto Motto has bentos that have rice, veggies, fish & meat for $5. They're a pretty popular chain around Japan. Not to mention you can buy a good combination of healthy foods from a Japanese convenience store for ~$6. In America you're severely limited, even Whole Foods "make your salad bar" things that are few and far-between are easily $10+. Having lived 7+ years in both countries I think it's inarguable that it's much easier to eat healthier in Japan than in America. And that's reflected on the obesity rates too.
Japan: "Our watermelons cost more than your rent."
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It ain't a watermelon homie
Weird flex but ok.
This is not a watermelon this is from melon family and is commonly called muskmelon some species of muskmelons are very cheap you can buy bunch of em in 50 dollars
@@ncgpheonix8974 japan produces high quality shits and overrated at the same time
I tasted these expensive melons twice and they are damn good but not 300x the price good.
I’ve never been so jealous of a fruit before.
Wow and I thought the canteloupe I bought at the market yesterday was expensive for $3.49 :)
It is :))) Here in Central Europe , I bought 3 pieces for 1.5 Euros :)))
@Hakim Smailliw Is the ''European Dollar'' , EURO is our currency in Europe and biggest reserve currency on planet after USD .
@Rev limits I thought the brits used the pound? Or am i dumb
@@paolocruz2578 you re not. He is
@Rev limits brits use pound. Which is worth more than the dollar and Euro
Crown Melon really sounds like a business cartel, even more so than is usual in Japan.
Exactly. Crooks.
I can understand waygu beef and caviar, but this is a whole new level of nonsense.
Spelled cartel wrong
@@juanjr3917 I'm used to the Dutch spelling, whoops.
Excellent analogy
My wife: what name we will give to our newborn boy?
Me: fujiyama shiroyuki
My wife: japanese name, eh? But why?
Me: idk, but it sounds expensive
69 likes and as the assh ole I am Imma destroy it 😂😂
Nuh had second thoughts. 😢Be happy amigo. Someone else will destroy this priced thing
Anybody that has tasted one of these understands why its so amazing. If money is nothing, I would be eating these everyday.
Imagine your toddler accidentally dropping a Fuji on a floor.
Straight to an orphanage you go!
Deserved😂😂😂😂
Seppuku
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Skank Hunt88 take it easy it was a joke. Only a horrible parent would actually prioritize a fruit over their child
Me enjoying my 4$ melon 🍈 laughing at people eating 200$ just got a slice
When you’re a millionaire, 200$ for them is like your 4$ to you. Lol
Me laughing at you while I enjoying my 50 cent melon 🍈
@@PickledSteak what about you nerd
@@percyjcksson9401 I am a nerd actually lol. Proud graduate with master degree in Computer science. I could probably buy you and your family a better house than you’re living in right now. What about you?
We get 2 for a $ here in india
And now I have to live knowing I will never taste that kind of melons, I didn't even know existed 10 min before, And miss it.
It's literally just a sweeter melon, most of the price is in the looks.
We have the exact same thing in my country. You can get them for less than $1.
belive me when i say it tastes the same as an odinary melon.
It most likely doesn't taste much different than the regular ones. And you'd be shocked to know that some end up tasting worse. It's mostly made for its looks. ruclips.net/video/QF695hR5ysc/видео.html
@@salimahmedali9249 He tested a different one in this video, not the ones shows here
Not mentioned in this video but ordinary Japanese melons are sold 3 dollars in supermarket.
99% of Japanese have never experienced such expensive melons. However some luxury fruit shops are selling expensive products which tastes far more sweet than ordinary ones. I never buy luxury fruits for myself but consider as a gift coz its miracle sweet will surprize you. These days Chinese tourists come to get the luxury ones for souvenir.
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Whenever I hear about "most expensive", there's always Japan in the sentence...
In the 70s anything Made in Japan was crap. Like Made in China is now. The media and proper coverage will do this.
Fuchumo but... everything that is made in china still sucks their either has very vas quality or will burn up soon after buying
@@lumi5056 no just no
@@EckRD in china, you get what you payed
oh they have great quality products in China, just very expensive... you get what you pay for.
Wow I never knew OCD could pay this much
Does anyone here know what ocd actually is, apart from the 9gagish "patterns!!1!"
@@whataboutthis10 OCD is "Ultra Instinct"
It’s all about tradition in Japan, as tradition becomes older the more important the event becomes
the way they pronounce melon is the sole reason im staying to watch
Suddenly headline news
"A man loaded 10 suitcases with melons on a trip to Japan"
Ha ha .... 🤣
roppoqi 😂
All men load their suitcases with melons to Japan
"pouring water on the melons by hand makes these melons expensive"
Me: *looks at the giant climate-controlled greenhouse, super low yield due to one melon per plant, and all the hand care combined* Yep, sure, it's the hand watering of the melons making it expensive lol
its expensive because they probably have to hire people to do that, so that means you gotta pay them hourly then pay their health insurance and then pay taxes for employing them... so yeah thats probably why its the most expensive process.
suddenly $999 Apple "Pro" monitor stand sounds reasonable.
Nah cause what can you do with just the stand alone? Nothing it’ll just be there... and the melon you can enjoy it
Still not reasonable. This melon we can eat and we can memorized how good it taste in entire life. Apple's stand just a piece of steel/aloy, unnecessary product.
Apple monitor stand should be priced around 100$
@@idreeslonne9990 more like less than 50$
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No because you can eat the melon
Massaging the melon with white glove is the secret 😂😂
so this is where quarantine has led me today...
Same
Japan: "Our watermelons cost more than your rent."
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Same 🤣
Ight i know i’m not the only one who thought for a sec that this was a devilfruit
Dayum... if a melon can be priced more then 15 grands... bet a piece mango can make 10K+
yeah they have a separate auction for perfect mangoes
@@huntress44 lmao
There video about $5000 for a pair of mango
the whole point is demenad and supply... the supplier can make some number and the one who buy is for business propose. which also can be add to company expense.... so basicity it not a commercial good.
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Insanity is a process. I think the Japanese have nearly perfected it.
Stephen Nee what do you mean by ‘perfect?’
To me a $5 melon that tastes decent is MORE than perfect
😀😀😀😀
The insanity to do things perfectly is an obsession. Hard works always pay off
@@ktnwood21 it's, the obsession to do things perfect that is insanity.
@@bulltron8926 Too right buddy
these melons have been receiving more love by their farmers compare to average human being 🙃
The only country in the entire world that would price melons in the thousands 🍈 🇯🇵
And unfortunately there is IDIOTS who pay that 🤦🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
Buy the seeds instead.
@@tlahuicolexiii2844 You should eat one first before calling people idiots. They're extremely sweet and flavorful unlike the cheap melons we buy at the markets. If you have money to spend and had one of these you'll never eat regular ones again.
almost every other products lol Japan things
@@tlahuicolexiii2844 It's their money
I wish my parents loved me as much as he loves his melons
Melon: i'm so perfectly sweet and all
Owner: such beautiful net pattern
[Weeks later]
Melon: *rotting inside*
No one:
Japan @ 5:30: grow melon like sons and daughters
I still can't find a single reason that makes these so special enough to justify their excessively high price tag.
well for them, it would seem like only a hundred bucks, but for tourists its expensive since japan has higher exchange costs
That’s because you are too poor to understand the best quality
@@richardphillips-ludwigwell3337 wow what a way to describes people taste. When people got too much money they start to wonder how to spend their money and this people capitalize on the rich pride and wealth by making these stuff looks extraordinary when its not. Iam fully aware that such difference in quality will be present but to make it that expensive ? Seems like an unnecessary "Pride Tax" there.
@@richardphillips-ludwigwell3337 go drink your rabbish english tea and dont act like you are super rish
@@richardphillips-ludwigwell3337 thats a bullshit comment. That shit grows like a weed in my country dumbass
After watching this channel I realized anything that costs dearly is because there are people willing to pay for it not that it's worth it or something
ABSO-FREAKING-LUTELY.
Correct mate
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Mighty subjective take
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I started with the expensive Strawberry video, then Mango, and now I'm here.
Lol
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Which is mango link?
Saffron!
If you think about it you aren’t buying one melon, you’re buying ALL the melons that one vine would EVER have produced because they cut them all off except the best one.
This looks a lot like the diamond industry, a regulating authority artificially inflating value though control and convincing people to spend huge amounts of money on things which would be otherwise low value.
It is, where I live this sh*t costs around $1 up to $4 depending on the weight of it.
I think that’s half of it but u most definitely have to consider the growing process, the time it takes to grow, and cost of production. They definitely shouldn’t be as mush as they are tho that’s obvious
it isn't really an apples to apples comparison, regular people still buy generic melons (though having to import them from south america and else do still make them expensive), this kind of luxury melons are usually just given as present for ceremonial occasions, such as closing a hefty business deal with another company president etc, or for the rich stuff such as having moved into a very expensive condo, etc. it isn't that different from gifting very old whiskey or other such expensive drinks in America, if you think about it why would anyone pay hundreds or thousands of dollars for a bottle of decomposed grain juice? it is just a ceremonial gift for those that can afford it
I mean you don’t have to buy them but in this instance there’s a turn around to your idea it’s technically speaking cheap to get diamonds it’s the amount that’s controlled however this becomes expensive based on what the judges and test think, the sheer amount of work put in it (which if you’ve ever ran a business you know a lot of the time salaries are the most expensive part but a really necessary one) and the rate of failure as well makes it quite expensive along with the actual rarity of getting a perfect melon which is way harder than cutting diamonds into the perfect shape.
Not everything is the same in some ways yes it’s the same but this also has different factors which you can argue can justify the price tag
Noone is convincing very wealthy people to spend their money. They choose to do so for various reasons, most of which stem from ego.
Me: why would anyone buy this
Also me: looking if i could get it shiped to the US
just buy a cantaloupe at Walmart
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Mom : What do you want for your birthday?
Me : A melon
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I prefer the money that can buy the melon
Me watching this appreciating our 2$ melon.
2 dollars is five melons where I'm from
Mate in Sweden one of these green melons is like $7 USD. where you live?
@@AG-en5y In Indonesia u only need 2$ for 3 melon
@@AG-en5y In the California bay area, the green ones are around $5 and cantaloupes are 2.50
@@katatat2030 ; if you could honestly describe the taste. Do they both taste like melons, i mean one could be sweeter, have a beautiful fragrance etc. How big a difference do you see and if you care to explain to someone who hasn't tasted one.
Actually, Hollywood has the most expensive melons.
Hehehehe...you sly joker😂😂😂🤣
Yes especially the Kardashian melon variety...
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It is a wonderful and beautifully shaped fruit❤️🙂I am marroccian🇲🇦😘
I actually ate one of those expensive melons...and then went through a series of bankruptcies and mortgage foreclosures.
When I was in Japan we saw a 1,250 dollar mango.
Lost my fuckin mind
Haha when we were kids before fruit was shipped freely Interstate, we would visit my grandparents in Queensland and there are photos of us on the back steps near the canals, the kids gorging on watermelon and my Dad literally covered in mango juice. Am old enough to remember when you only ate local season fruits and vegetables because the shipping costs were so high to get anything off season or from other parts of the country.
@@adrienneclarke3953 Same here, In my childhood, no way our child have to spend money on fruit like mango, guava... we only eat every wild fruit available like guava or simply stole some mangoes or corn from our neighbor
So "agricultural cooperatives" ensure that prices are artificially high. Ok.
Cooporatives are how Japan's society runs, eventually the system will collapse.
@@Bradgilliswhammyman It's working great for now, atleast better than the US and Indian economy.
@@sanskaarkulkarni1036 maybe, but forming a cartel and fixing prices is very illegal in the US.
@@sanskaarkulkarni1036 ah so thats why Japan's economy was in a recession since the 90's.
BoxStudioExecutive no, it’s actually because the bank zombies that appeared after the mid 1990s housing bubble collapsed. Basically debt ridden banks that are kept afloat by the Government plus investors confidence that the Government will bail them out.
when it come to fruits in Japan it was another level.. No other country can even come close..
0:40 there's a fly on the melon
lmao
Ugh... disgawsting! Off to the trash with you.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It is sticker lmaoo
Me: I'm rich baby! I can afford a $200 steak
Some Japanese Melon: *I'm going to end this man's whole career*
They actually taste bomb but damn it’s expensive
@No Comps kinda in between Nagasaki and Hiroshima.
Bomb like 9-11?
Like the bomb I’m Rainbow Six?
Bomb like we need to bomb the entire Middle East?
@@NAWFSIDE_SLIM cause your dad lives there
So why these melons are so expensive
Melon harvesters : yes
They make it sound like using raised beds is some exclusive nippon technology... except greenhouses use raised benches all the time
i whorely agreed with your saiyng
Sounds like Apple...
Me : how much for this melon
Vendor : $22000
me : *Would you take kidneys as payment...*
One Kidney and one of your testicole
Vendor : $22000
me : hmm..well...Mia Khalifa's melons might b cheaper than that..😂😂
LMAO 😂😂😂
woww, so bloody expensive!! Im glad I live in the Philippines melons here are sweet and importantly AFFORDABLE!
1 melon P50-60 enough for whole family!
This really explains the concept of KODAWARI.Or this whole series by Insider is really about Kodawari. The general meaning is a relentless pursuit of precision, quality, attention to detail and craftsmanship in one’s work, craft, or endeavor.
5:30
Me is confusion
“So they sell their sons and daughters?”
It means they care a lot about the melon.
They send their melons to school
nuhh you cant sell sons or daughters if you ain't have one
Lol 😂
Yup
For me.. Even if they are literally licking them every single day in order to make them clean and shiny.. That's will never be enough to justify the crazy price.. That's in my humble opinion.
I would never pay that much for a fruit, no matter how good. I'm ok with mass produced cheap fruit
Here in India, one can buy exactly similar melons for less than $1 per kilogram. They are superb in taste. Ranging from mildly sweet to supersweet.
Not exactly similar. Not at all
my exact thought... ye to school ke bahar 5Rs mein milte the
Ok
Yes
Atleast Japanese people don't poo on the streets
These melons are grown to near perfection and used as gifts. I think it is good since it is these small scale farmers who can profit from their hard work and dedication to their craft.
I rather get a perfect melon than a diamond ring lol.
This is a nice thought! Most farmers in my country live in poverty line, but this practice in Japan showed how they value the works of their farmers.