![]() ![]() ![]() As BuzzFeed puts it, “These apples were presumably watered with honey, angel piss, and the tears of Donald Trump.” (Photo: ) The orchards where they’re grown are pollinated by hand using a tiny wand-treatments not uncommon in Japan’s fruit-obsessed culture. Translating to “the best in the world,” Sekai-ichi are washed with honey and branded by hand to ensure they’re blemish free. The most expensive one ever sold was a whopping 17 pounds and went for $6,100 at an auction in 2008, making it the priciest watermelon in the world. Grown exclusively on Japan’s northernmost island, Hokkaido, only 100 Densuke are farmed each year. Why so expensive?: Sold at Sembikiya flagship store in Tokyo and throughout Japan, the black-skinned, stripeless Densuke watermelon is reported to have a special type of sweetness. ![]() Here are eight fruits around the world that make a $6 banana look like, well, just a banana. But Sembikiya and the Gokusen banana are only the tip of the absurdly-expensive-fruit iceberg. In Tokyo, the luxury fruit boutique Sembikiya sells everything from $3-a-piece strawberries to $212 square watermelons. In fact, the country has an long history of luxe fruit. When Dole Japan announced it would be sell its Gokusen banana for $6 each for one day only (May 9) at the Takashimaya Department Store in Shinjuku, everybody’s reaction pretty much was, “OMG, those are some fancy-ass bananas.” The fruit, developed using the best characteristics from more than 100 bananas and grown 500 meters above sea level, came in special boxes and equipped with serial numbers.īut this isn’t the first time Japan’s gone fruit crazy. ![]()
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