Some places take their fruit way too seriously....

SWOHFAL · March 17, 2012, 17:27

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-17352173

randy762ak · March 18, 2012, 08:33

When I was In China The Fruit was Individually wrapped in expanded Foam cages.. Looked Nice!
Friends brought Fruit baskets over and My wife hands me an apple-- A red Delicious and says for you to eat--On the side the sticker said -Product of the USA!!! Go figure Must have been one of those Un -Obtainable Exotic apples ...

**xtremerange** · March 18, 2012, 08:35

There is a crazy amount of man hours that go into those fruit. With the amount of work I put into my garden each green bean I produce probably costs $2 - unfortunately nobody would pay that to me.

catmguy445 · March 18, 2012, 12:05

Ya gotta remember that these are the same people who grow miniature Bonsai trees and massage cows every day to make the beef tender. It doesn't surprise me very much that they also have a thing about perfect fruit.

**308bolt** · March 18, 2012, 13:12

The U.S. takes its fruits to seriously too.
Some even thing they should be able to marry each other.

**martin35** · March 18, 2012, 15:43

The average American will feel starved eating what the average Japanese eats, back in the day when going on sea trails of a Japan Built drilling vessel I learned to carry a lunch on subsequent voyages, a couple of dozen lunches in fact because all hands ate what the Japanese ate and only three times a day as long as the vessel belonged to the builders.
My first meal after my first Japanese sea trial cost my employer almost $300 dollars, Kobe steak and steamed vegetables,,, lots of them when I got ashore,,, and that was over 35 years ago.
Rice and sea food are Japanese staples and the priority of all local production in Japan where they can't grow enough food to feed them selves and must import or go banzai.

March 17, 2012, 17:27	#1
SWOHFAL Registered FALaholic #: 34346 Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: Obamunist-occupied America Posts: 8,377	Some places take their fruit way too seriously.... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-radio-and-tv-17352173 __________________ Man is tormented by no greater anxiety than to find someone quickly to whom he can hand over that great gift of freedom with which the ill-fated creature is born. - Fyodor Dostoevsky

March 18, 2012, 08:35	#3
xtremerange Curio & Relic Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 4305 Join Date: Sep 2001 Location: Oklahoma Posts: 2,342	There is a crazy amount of man hours that go into those fruit. With the amount of work I put into my garden each green bean I produce probably costs $2 - unfortunately nobody would pay that to me. __________________ --David

March 18, 2012, 12:05	#4
catmguy445 Registered FALaholic #: 50311 Join Date: Oct 2009 Location: Boise, ID Posts: 1,202	Ya gotta remember that these are the same people who grow miniature Bonsai trees and massage cows every day to make the beef tender. It doesn't surprise me very much that they also have a thing about perfect fruit. __________________ Zeke the CATM guy (MSGT, USAF, ret.) "The only easy day was yesterday" - US NAVY SEALs

March 18, 2012, 13:12	#5
308bolt Heathen Silver Contributor FALaholic #: 19255 Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 19,981	The U.S. takes its fruits to seriously too. Some even thing they should be able to marry each other. __________________ "The bandwagons rumble past. I sit here on the curb," ~ John Hartford ~ "Nil desperandum, -- Never Despair. That is a motto for you and me. All are not dead; and where there is a spark of patriotic fire, we will rekindle it." ~ Samuel Adams ~

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March 18, 2012, 08:33	#2
randy762ak Registered FALaholic #: 25888 Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: From the commie state of stinking NY Posts: 1,486	When I was In China The Fruit was Individually wrapped in expanded Foam cages.. Looked Nice! Friends brought Fruit baskets over and My wife hands me an apple-- A red Delicious and says for you to eat--On the side the sticker said -Product of the USA!!! Go figure Must have been one of those Un -Obtainable Exotic apples ...

March 18, 2012, 15:43	#6
martin35 when legend becomes fact Contributor Bronze Contributor FALaholic #: 2939 Join Date: Mar 2001 Location: Texas Posts: 16,829	The average American will feel starved eating what the average Japanese eats, back in the day when going on sea trails of a Japan Built drilling vessel I learned to carry a lunch on subsequent voyages, a couple of dozen lunches in fact because all hands ate what the Japanese ate and only three times a day as long as the vessel belonged to the builders. My first meal after my first Japanese sea trial cost my employer almost $300 dollars, Kobe steak and steamed vegetables,,, lots of them when I got ashore,,, and that was over 35 years ago. Rice and sea food are Japanese staples and the priority of all local production in Japan where they can't grow enough food to feed them selves and must import or go banzai.