Posted on 07/08/2016 6:14:06 PM PDT by Daffynition
A bunch of grapes has fetched a record price at an auction in Japan, where the fruit is considered a status symbol.
The bunch of about 30 grapes of the Ruby Roman variety sold for 1.1m yen (£8,350) – about £270 a grape. Each grape is roughly the size of a ping pong ball.
The grapes are grown in Ishikawa prefecture, and to qualify for the Ruby Roman designation, each grape must weigh at least 20g and have a sugar content of at least 18%.
Even w/out a coupon, grapes are 99¢/# this week.
You’re such a Prince of a guy!
Start saving them and eating the:
Whole grape seeds are naturally rich in flavonoids including gallic acid, catechin, epicatechin, gallocatechin, epigallocatechin, epicatechin 3-O-gallate, and perhaps most importantly, oligomeric proanthocyanidins. According to research, the antioxidant capacity of proanthocyanidins is 20 times greater than vitamin E and 50 times greater than vitamin C.
Source: http://www.healwithfood.org/health-benefits/whole-grape-seeds-edible.php#ixzz4DsGjeNuf
Proanthocyanidins
An easy way to convert Yen to Dollars is to realize that 1 yen is roughly equal to 1 US. CENT
Japan may be crazy, but they are NOT as CRAZy as us, because in Japan, they are not letting Muslims into their country.
Great.
I’ll still ask for my senior discount on Tuesday. ;)
Ding-ding-ding-ding-ding!
Winner! We have a winner!
Bwaaaa-haaa-haa-ha!
Thanks.
I remember when 1 dollar was worth 360 yen. Late ‘50s early 60s.
Uh huh. Just think about this. The Marion Berry is native to the northwest. Washington State. It does well in its native environment.
You take one seed and plant it on the east coast. Washington D.C.. And it turns out to be one bad Marion Barry.
I’ve always thought that if there are any cultures on Earth that may have been planted here by ‘extraterrestrial aliens’, they’d be the Japanese, and the ancient Egyptians.
(I bought a bowl of fruit for lunch yesterday that was full of grapes, for about $4.00 US.....)
-JT
That pic kind of explains it all, or maybe it’s doesn’t explain anything.
“I was here in Washington when my brother went through his great trial and a reporter from one of the Washington newspapers came to me with a question. But before she asked her question she was building me up as some moral giant, somebody who was married and had a good life, and didn’t use drugs. And what do you think, she said, of a man who broke his marital vows and used drugs? And, I said: 'Who are you talking about? John Fitzgerald Kennedy?'"
Grapes, split crotch panties
And credulous chinamen:
Best haiku EVAH
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