Yubari melons
Have you ever considered melons to be luxury items? Perhaps you should have. After all, a pair of cantaloupes just sold for quite a hefty sum in Japan’s Sapporo City Central Wholesale Markets.
The world’s most expensive cantaloupes are a pair of Yubari melons and were the first auction of the 2008 season. They had previously been judged the best pair and were purchased by the owner of a nearby seafood lunchbox and souvenir business. It had some competition—100 melons grown by farmers from Yubari were also judged.
Yubari, while famous for its sweet and high-quality melons, used to be a coal-mining town. Unfortunately for the 12,500 inhabitants, it went bankrupt last year.
The ¥2.5 million (US $22,872.5) fetched by the most expensive cantaloupes in the world will surely be a help in Yubari’s rehabilitation.
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