why is fruit expensive in japan
is very expensive
>>14880998
Aren't those organic or hard to grow in their climate?
If so, that usually answers the question.
>>14880988
Because Japanese people are poor
>>14881012
The more expensive ones in the pictures look more like they're fruit baskets type things too, so you're paying even more for the presentation of it as well.
Since I'm no longer able to NEET it up, I've worked in a produce department in a super market. They carried fruit platters that had maybe $15 worth of fruit in it, put it in a cheap plastic basket added some ribbon etc. and priced it at $35 and they sold pretty well.
How dont japs have heart disease on a scale worse than America?
Arent their foods all filled with sodium and shit too?
I cant imagine life where fruit is so fucking expensive.
>>14881065
They make up for it with cheap & common vegetables. Fruits are a costly thing to propagate compared to other crap when you take into account pesticides, irrigation, monitoring, pollination & handling.
>>14880988
Isn't that "premium" fruit?
>>14881115
how can fruit be premium
is it cultivated using idol faeces?
>>14881126
>cultivated using idol faeces
I think you're onto something here.
>>14881126
Long harvest cycle and species are just a few factors that can make fruit "premium". Non-indigenous fruits aren't much of an issue these days.
The price of strawberries in Japan is a fucking crime.
That god strawberries are not on the list of imported fruit prohibited in importation in Japan: apple, pear, quince, nectarine, peach, plum, apricot, cherry.
>>14881259
thank god*
>>14881259
>peaches and plums aren't allowed
These people aren't truly living
>>14881278
Beat having your entire domestic fruit crops buttfuckked by some australian/south american fungus like fireblight and having to move on up to heavy artillery fungicides.
>>14881259
>peach
why do they hate the best fruit in the world
>>14881328
>>14881278
Those fruits are native to Asia and are probably prohibited to protect native growers
>>14881259
>prohibition
wait what?
can they not import any of those fruits at all? or is it just very expensive?
i can't imagine living without eating an apple
>>14881278
>>14881328
>>14881560
protectionism
you know
the same thing us govt do for their own farming industry?
>>14881328
Peach is shit
I always thought it was due to them having no fucking space for any decent orchards and importing shit is too expensive or w/e
>>14882014
Everyone lives in Tokyo, why wouldn't they have space for orchards?
>>14882014
when all the old farts die they'll have space to plant some watermelons?
>>14881129
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ttongsul
I wonder how much money they could make from idol otaku.
>>14881259
Fucking hell, I feel sorry for Japanese people. On one hand they dont have feminism and give no fucks about the UN whining about loli, rape and other fictional stuff.
But thaat's some amazing fruit.
>>14881596
Why dont they just have their own guys farm something else that allows fruit to be affordable?
It's wrong as fuck to extort people so a few guys can keep getting rich of something unprofitable.
>>14882014
They have lots of space. They even have houses left to rot in the countryside becuase everyone dreams of moving to the city to become a salaryman, send their kids to school, to become salarymen and pay for their kids education to become salarymen.
I dont get why more people dont just farm and hunt.
http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/hunting-the-newest-growing-hobby-of-japanese-women
Japs and Slavs have the best women. There is jsut something I like about women who know how to use guns. I also really like how they are learning to live without relying on others. Shame /pol/ convinced me racemixing is bad, because thats 10/10 wife material.
/jp/ - Food & Cooking
![lucuma[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/RhdLbqp.jpg "lucuma[1].jpg")
>>14880988
>Kiwi around 9 dollarydoos
Man, i guess living in a third world country with tons of fruits available for almost anyone it's nice.
Pic related, fruit of the gods. We have cakes and ice creams of based Lucuma.
>>14883109
/ck/ threads are the always the best threads anywhere outside of /ck/
>>14880988
because they waste 70% of arable land on golf
>>14881061
>Since I'm no longer able to NEET it up, I've worked in a produce department in a super market. They carried fruit platters that had maybe $15 worth of fruit in it, put it in a cheap plastic basket added some ribbon etc. and priced it at $35 and they sold pretty well.
This...this is...!
The secret of American capitalism...!
>>14883313
also, the countryside is not well protected
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Environmental_issues_in_Japan#Urban_planning
you can build a big ass industry wherever you want and nobody can say anything, exceptyakuzaof course
>>14883129
I visited /ck/ once expecting cookery recipes, discussions, etc.
All I got was junkfood threads.
>>14880988
Because it has to be imported
From what I understand, Japanese fruit are ludicrously expensive but most is locally grown and is exceptional in quality.
Most of us live in a world where we can eat strawberries, peaches ect. any time of year, since Pablo or Mufasa is picking and importing it for you. But the chances are, some of the best produce you can get are when it's local and in season, meaning that they don't have to be picked unripened and or frozen.
It's difficult to adjust to life without constant supply and demand, but it's something you get used to. Used to be a time where a clementine on Christmas Day was a special gift, now you get it whenever.
Funny how yuzu is so abundant in Japan that it's used for so many things like it's nothing.
Here it's almost $10 CAD for a small fruit.
I bit the bullet and bought one to try it out, now I am growing the seeds. Maybe in 18 years time I'll have some fruit ready for me.
>>14883024
>http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/hunting-the-newest-growing-hobby-of-japanese-women
I want to go hunting with a cute loli and have bro-adventures!
>>14881596
It's not because of protectionism, these are importation prohibitions for personal consumption.
It's probably more because of >>14881293, to prevent contaminants from coming in.
>>14883024
In fairness, you got anything better to do in Hokkaido?
>>14883024
>Why dont they just have their own guys farm something else that allows fruit to be affordable?
But they already are? Imagine all the fruit farmers switch to farming rice, what would they do with the surplus of rice production? Force the average consumer to eat twice as much? Export, against other competitively priced rice from other parts of asia? Or just throw them away, which is what certain european countries are doing with their milk.
Also the farmers aren't getting rich from this. In fact, because they would barely make enough to feed themselves otherwise that they need protectionism.
>It's wrong as fuck to extort people so a few guys can keep getting rich of something unprofitable.
This requires a rather comprehensive and long explanation on economics, so let's just say that the japanese govt make some policies that we don't agree with, even though they have their own logical reasoning for their decisions.
But oh hey, that's just like any other govts!
>>14885701
>In fact, because they would barely make enough to feed themselves otherwise that they need protectionism.
Crops are government subsidized. They make money whether the food gets eaten or not as long as they grow it.
>>14885726
Whether the food gets sold or not, I meant.
>>14880988
there are some extraordinary measures growers go to to cultivate the fruits.They are so insane that in an apple tree, they take care of each apple, they put some paper protection and other shit, in EACH APPLE. So in the end it takes a lot of stupid time to grow the stuff, because "muh perfect fruit", perfect apple, perfect oranges, perfect grape, perfect watermelon. So, it's not like, let's say, my country, where the fruit is not fucking perfect, but is still good and great to eat, it's just the ¿farmers? don't go insane trying to take care of EACH fucking apple from the tree.
>>14885726
>>14885733
protectionism includes subsidy
subsidies, quotas, tariffs - they are not mutually exclusive
>>14885781
I will never understand this. Mainly because IT'S JUST A FUCKING APPLE. It's a good source of fiber, but not much else honestly (they're a very low source of daily nutrients) aside to keep you from starving. Them being tasty is more of just a subjective value.
Granted my team has an orchard nearby where you can pick your own to buy, and they're tasty. but at the end of the day it's just an apple. It shouldn't be a luxury item, they grow in most earth environments.
>>14885829
hit submit too soon. Was going to say, as I say while eating an apple.
>>14885829
Luxury products don't need to make sense in price.
>>14885871
I remember checking the fish market, next to it there is the fruit market and guess what, a 300.000 yens watermelon, I think they are for weddings or some shit like that, but 300.000 fucking yens, fucking seriously? Also, it was really fucking big, but still stupidly expensive.
>>14885871
The problem is that the perfect/luxury watermelon comes from only the 3% of all the watermelons the guy is growing.
>>14885964
>The problem is that the perfect/luxury watermelon comes from only the 3% of all the watermelons the guy is growing.
I was actually talking about melons there, not watermelons.
>>14885681
Quarantine law is usually just a sneaky method of protectionism.
Like what russia did/does with meat from europe
"Oh hey sorry you can't sell these poultry in our country, they don't meet standards xyz".
But of course, this is just speculation and I don't know these things for certain as I'm not japanese, so I'll stop on this subject.
>>14885871
I'm struggling to see what the difference between the two is for such a price difference.
>>14885977
Japan is an island, quarantine laws make a lot more sense because it's a naturally enclosed econsystem.
>>14885981
There is no difference, pretty sure the more expensive is the price of 2.
>>14885984
england is also an island
yet their import restrictions target those "from outside the EU"
>>14885981
is just how they evolve/grown up, like >>14885964
said, the perfect melon represents only the 3% of the farmers production. I remember eating a 10.000 yens melon while on a business trip, it was a gift from one of the companies we where working with, but fuck if I'm ever paying that kind of money for fruit. But hey, it had a great taste.
I can't speak for Europe, but American crop strains are refined for hardiness and productivity and not taste or nutrition. Couple it with absurd subsidies and there is a very peculiar culture here that demands and expects crops to be available at all times and to all people.
This situation has resulted in a secondary industry of "organic" food that is aimed at the remnants of our middle class. Predictably, this niche has expanded to the mainstream consciousness and to meet consumer demands it has rescinded the restrictions it placed on itself and has grown to resemble the abyssal monster it was created to fight.
I think Japan's situation is closer to rationality than ours, although the pics in this thread are more about conspicuous consumption than the quality and worth of the goods themselves.
>>14886064
America also produces its crops for a lot more than itself. We're the third highest in the world in production of wheat alone.
We kinda need to gear towards productivity because of population numbers.
>>14885781
This.
Blemished fruit isn't sold, and if you want to buy a tomato, it will be immaculately presentable and packaged singularly, whereas we'd just buy a punnet of tomatoes.
Just a cultural thing where they place a high value on the appearance, cosmetic or otherwise, of foodstuffs.
>>14886376
So it is much cheaper to just grow the damn veggies yourself. Perhaps even healthier.
>>14885981
The cheaper one is a single melon, the other one is a box with two melons
>>14883313
Wait, is golfing big in Japan? Why didn't anyone tell me?
>>14886443
It's for office politics shit and stuff i'm guessing. Like, if you can't golf and accompany the higher ups old men to golf, you'll get stuck being lowly salaryman forever.
>>14886443
They love it more than we do.
Vegetables are cheap in Japan. Fruit is non essential and more of a treat than part of a healthy diet. Its just since the price of fruit started falling in America in the 50s that the 5 a day food pyramid shit was introduced.
>>14885693
Ho/k/kaido seems like the best part of Japan, all that nature, they hunt and enjoy guns and probably have less cancerous gaijin moving there than Tokyo.
I want to visit Hokkaido, I think it's the place in Japan with the msot lakes right? I would rather mountains, but lakes are nice too. Cities are shit.
>>14885701
>what would they do with the surplus of rice production
Sake.
>>14886376
It's dumb becuase the stuff will just end up cut up anyway. I never got obsession with food presentation.
>>14886381
>Perhaps even healthier.
Depends on where you live. I live in the UK and we had lots of mines and steel mills in the area, and the ground is toxic from all the pollution. In one area we have seen lots of dead rabbits from eating grass grown on a patch of land that used to be a steelworks.
It's fine for some places, but I wouldnt grow my own food in this area.
>>14883360
>except yakuza
It would be hilarious if the Yakuza became the guys defending the environment.
>>14886443
I wish rugby was bigger in Japan. Mainly becuase it's the only sport my country is good at. They probably dont even know we exist.
>>14888578
Are you in Wales? In all the years I've been here I think I've seen like one other Welsh person post here.
>>14888099
>fruits are nonessential
You say that now, but once you come down with scurvy we'll see who's right.
>>14888564
Having been there, hokkaido is rather boring. Yeah nature is nice, but other regions of Japan have that too.
>>14880988
>Go to Japan
>Plant kiwi tree
>become millionaire
>>14888622
Except every other soda in Japan has like 300% DV Vitamin C.
>>14888637
They'll find a way to cut it down through bureacratic red tape.
>>14888643
And where do you think that vitamin c came from, Peg Leg Pete?
>>14888612
Yes.
>>14888624
What was the landscape like?
Most places have nature, but some places have more interesting features than others.
>>14888743
Where are you from man? I'm pretty sure I remember where the anon I was talking to years ago was from, so it'd be pretty funny if it was you. I used to live in Pembrokeshire but had to move due to reasons.I kinda miss it ;_; The water in my area is godawful and haven't had a nice cup of tea in ages.
>>14888784
I'm from the valleys. My town is a shitty place and I cant get a job here, so I may end up moving too.
I have some family in Pembrokeshire and have stayed there, it was a pretty nice place. I wouldnt want to stay there however.
We havent met, never saw a Welsh person on /jp/. Maybe I will see more if Japan ever gets really into rugby.
>>14888798
No way, are you inBridgend?I only meant talking once in some thread and not like on MSN or whatever, but damn it would be crazy if you're the same person.
Moving sounds like a good idea though, it feels so nice being in a city and actually having options when it comes to just about anything.
>>14888743
>what was the landscape like
Mostly forests and mountains.
There's a bunch of fields like pic related, but that is man-made since nature doesn't know how to create perfect flower rows. Gotta go in the summer for that though.
>>14888917
Nah, Blaenau Gwent (Tredegar).
I dont like cities, too many people. I just need a job, I am not too picky at this point I just want more money. Enough to buyfag and have enough left for booze.
>>14888928
I thought Hokkaido was for lakes.
Mountains and forests are fine too.
>>14889009
Ahh alrighty. Now that I think about it, I think I've seen someone here from Pontypridd too. If easymodo was still around I'd go and check. Who would have thought /jp/ would have so many Welsh people though.
But good luck with everything man.
>>14889155
You take it easy too anon.
>>14880988
>>14880998
>>14881126
If I remember correctly, an exchange student studying horticulture told me that those are fruits grown specifically as really nice gifts (hence the $140 price tag for the musk melon, or $46 for the box of tangerines).
A huge contributing factor to the price is that these fruits cannot have any aesthetic defects (no blemishes, bumps, scaling, cat facing), and are specially grown to be a perfect shape, color, and have a perfectly styled stem (if applicable). Which usually results in a ton of labor to keep the fruit looking pristine, and they only get a few fruits that make the cut with each batch.
>>14889490
What do they do with the rest, sell for normal prices? Waste of fruit otherwise
>>14880988
it's really funny that square watermelons aren't edible at all.
>>14889490
Yeah when I went to Japan in September I was able to buy a bag of like 6 mandarins for a couple bucks
Fruit isn't any more expensive than anywhere else
>>14889963
>>14889986
Mushrooms? I don't remember.
>>14889997
A really big watermelon
>>14890004
I bought one of these, it was great.
>>14890015
some grapes?
>>14890028
>>14890015
ñam ñam, it was great.
>>14889963
How so? It's a watermelon isn't it?
>>14890064
yeah, but they take it off before it's edible, so they use it only as an ornament.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JNSpMhJLvg
>>14890074
Now I understand someone who said you shouldn't use a pie as a projectile when there's hungry people all around you.
>>14889896
She didn't go into much more detail than that, but I would like to think the growers wouldn't be so daft as to throw out otherwise salable produce.
Of course, a lot of produce that is grown (at least in the US) doesn't make it to a grocery store as fresh produce, either. Growers and distributors do their best to weed out any unappealing fruits and vegetables, since consumers tend to not buy them (frumpy-looking apples tend to wind up being used for cider, juice, applesauce, or used as an ingredient in other products, for example).
>>14890081
well, at least the heart shaped watermelon is edible.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5tydgE3RQxg
>>14890081
In fairness clowns and such have used just shaving cream in pie pans for decades now. They stopped using real pies when the realized "oh shit, pies are actually kinda heavy. You could hurt someone with one of these if you hit them in the face"
Source:my grandfather was a clown
>>14888928
I didn't know Hokkaido was in Holland.
>>14891264
Japan has a history with the Dutch. Dutch traders were given a special exemption during the isolationist days so that Japan could stay afloat of Western advancements in science and medicine.
The black boats of Commadore Perry were not the first contact Japan had with the West.
>>14880988
A lot of food is expensive there because of huge import tariffs meant to protect local agriculture.
>>14885681
That's the bullshit official reason the government uses to justify their protectionism policies. A lot of countries do that.
With proper regulations in place there is almost no chance of accidental contamination.
>>14891349
Yes I'm aware of Dejima.
But even the Dutch had gotten over tulip mania at that point.
>>14888928
>>14891264
Looks a lot like some parts of California too.
>>14890004
They don't taste as good when they get that big.
>>14891349
>holding the cup at the base
>>14891424
I wouldn't be surprised.
They do have a theme park modeled on Holland, after all.
>>14891442
That's because Nagasaki is where Dejima was located.
>>14891349
lmao huge noses
>>14881091
Mostly it's the handling. Fruits spoil in like a week and have to be shipped from the other side of the world most of the year.
>>14897395
China must really like kiwis. They can't all be exports
>>14899013
They do have 1.3 billion people.
If you go by per-capita I think most of those countries beat China, excluding the US.
>>14890035
>>14890015
chinese pear?
Ok, if fruits are so fucking expensive, would someone tell me how the devil the japanese get a proper nutrition?
nutrition can come from veggies instead
same stuff less sugar
>>14900745
Which I assume are also expensive as hell and are all about looks and not nutrition.
>>14900721
To some extent they don't from just food.
>>14900754
Vegetables are cheap everywhere. Mainly because they're used in cooking more than eaten on their own.
This thread is fascinating! I love farming culture!
>>14888578
>I live in the UK
I am truely sorry for your lots
A lot of commodities that are common in the west are expensive in Asia. My parents are sending American brand clothes and nuts (almonds, macadamias, peanuts) to relatives inKorea.
>>14900671
it's called Asian pear in my country.
>>14904328
And in mine it's called Japanese Pear.
Huh.
>>14904328
In my city they were normally called "Ya Pears".
>>14880988
What is google?
Most rich countries aren't exactly known for abundance of fruit while poor countries do hence the term "banana republic" came to be.
>>14905114
That's not why they're called banana republics. They're a catch-all term for any nation that is overly dependent on a single resource for export, like bananas or coffee beans, and usually has a very powerful ruling party that exploits the people for economic gain.
They're called banana republic because the first nation put under this term, Jamaica, had bananas brought into the US and sold at a 1000% markup.
>>14905144
Okay, but it still doesn't change the fact that shitty countries are associated with being deep in their necks in fruit.
>>14905158
Yes but only because we forced that to happen through companies like United Food something or other that controlled the countries through economics.
>Go shopping
>Meat and Cheese in small portions
>Expensive as fuck
Fish was regular, but Eel was insanely high.
>>14905165
Or perhaps being ruled by military juntas that won't hesitate to pump lead at whole villages because they didn't meet the quota being the bigger problem. Either way, they live day to day not knowing if they'll stay alive to pick fruit tomorrow while we get to happily ingest dirt cheap bananas and mangoes. Ah, capitalism.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idGvS0pKiC4
>>14904338
>"Ya Pears"
why "Ya"? what's "ya" supposed to mean in your country?
>>14908051
I don't know, but it's not an uncommon thing to call them. Look it up.
>>14886064
This. The daily intake of fruits for humans isn't much. A fruit here and a fruit there is more than enough. Humans actually just piss away a shit ton of their excess vitamins and minerals.
>>14886297
But I don't think it should affect prices so much.
>>14897395
>kiwi's like kiwi's
>makes sense
kidholdingthumbsup.jpeg
>>14904197
You Korean? And Korea actually lets edibles through the customs?
>>14904328
>>14904338
>>14904336
This just points that it's all a marketing move. Trying to allure the ignorant consumer that it's an exotic "Japanese","Asian" or "Ya Pears".
>>14880988
>>14880998
It's the same as buying Harry and David in the states, it's an expensive gift fruit, not a normal grocery store fruit.
>>14888578
Do not fret, anon. I am sure they are aware of rugby's existence.
>>14905174
Huh. And to think I can have meat for an entire week for only 6$ in my third world country.
>>14903884
I'm even sorrier for your spelling.
>>14897395
Kiwifruits originated from China, so it is reasonable.
>>14881065
What? No.
The worst thing Japan has is strokes.
And even then, that is mostly not until older age, which is to be expected.
Hell, even strokes are generally lower these days.
The whole "salt is bad" thing is the absolute worst scapegoat in food science when there are TWO BILLION+ people with high salt diets that are perfectly fine.
Same goes with fat. There are people that have high fat diets and have some of the best health on the planet.
Salt is only bad for a small number of people that are sensitive to it. The fact it has been covered up in lies for all this time is even shiitier. The fact there has been one or more diseases completely unnamed that causes sensitivity to salt is annoying.
Just like all those morons whining about MSG, the salt isn't the problem, it is the G part, the glutamic acid, some people are sensitive to it. But nooo, obviously it is MSG.
The worst thing you can eat is refined, simple sugars, "diet" foods and use cheap vegetable oils like palm seed and all that other shit. Only use things like olive oil, coconut oil or even animal fats and oils to cook with, nothing else ever.
These are all the reason people are fat and dying 10 different ways a second.
Diet foods are the worst lie in food science. They are toxic and just as bad as smoking.
Shit filled with fructose out the ass. The body might use fructose, but it does so in little amounts and where it is needed. That shit floating around freely is horribly bad for health.
The liver attempts to deal with it, but it does so just as well as it tries to deal with alcohol: Horribly.
The natural amounts in some fruits is even bad for you. But it isn't instantly toxic or life-threatening, so that is why it is fine for sale.
A little protip when you read anything about food science: if the source is any American company, instantly close the tab and ignore it.
It is paid, biased and outright lies 90% of the time, or was already known by THE REST OF THE WORLD in the remaining 10%.
Christ, America only just recently re-classified eggs as being healthy after decades of being called bad.
How embarrassing.
>>14888578
Aquaponics.
Why would you grow on the ground? Are you high?
Shits all kinds of toxic no matter where you go in terms of cities or nearby cities, or near any reasonably busy roads.
Sealed aquaponics beds, delicious foods.
>>14908309
Yes
I see no reason why it wouldn't. We get Korean stuff from my relatives occasionally.
>>14905174
It's illegal to fish for eel in parts of Asia so supply has gone down. They're endangered now but most people don't care.
>>14883024
>I dont get why more people dont just farm and hunt.
>http://www.japantoday.com/category/lifestyle/view/hunting-the-newest-growing-hobby-of-japanese-women
>tfw no jap qt to hunt with
Still, it's pretty interesting - men are becoming 'herbivore men', domesticated pacifists who don't leave their room while the women are out hunting and shit
>>14918760
The only problem I have with MSG is how it completely overpowers the taste of anything it's used with, so that whenever you eat something that has MSG in it you always end up getting this samey taste on your tongue.
>>14918760
>America only just recently re-classified eggs as being healthy after decades of being called bad.
They are healthy again?
I kept on hearing about "muh cholesterol".
Fucking hell.
I hate this.
First fat was bad, then it wasnt, then it was.
All I know at this point is simple carbs are bad, so only eat brown rice, brown pasta, brown bread, etc.
>>14919023
You will never live in Japan and hunt boar with your Japanese wife, before returning home, butchering the animal and having some pork based dinner. You then spend the rest of the winter evening cuddling under the kotatsu drinking warm sake and watching anime with her.
>>14919095
>You will never live in Japan and hunt boar with your Japanese wife, before returning home, butchering the animal and having some pork based dinner. You then spend the rest of the winter evening cuddling under the kotatsu drinking warm sake and watching anime with her.
>>14919033
Use less :^)
I hate it too when some enhancers or flavours are overpowering. Usually done to hide [bland main ingredient] like some dehydrated off-cut of chicken or whatever.
If only they added some variety in their flavourings.
I can't wait for the 3D food printing age, maybe then we will get some artificial foods filled with different tastes.
Like, imagine a chocolate pea-like "veg", would be great in a red meat dish.
>>14919058
Pretty much. It was absolute lies and spin by companies trying to sell diet foods, which made a much bigger problem than even bad cheap fats did.
When that crap happened, obesity levels exploded.
This is what happens when your regulatory group gets paid to turn their heads 360 and moonwalk away.
But yeah, stay away from simple carbs and refined sugars. They are so awful.
They are "fine" in small quantities, but they aren't a good source of energy for the day and leave you dry within a few hours, devoid of energy, lifeless.
About the only good time to consume them is the mornings where you need most energy to get about your day.
Them combined with tasty complex carbs make the day great.
>>14918877
Well, certain countries don't allow certain edibles. For contamination reasons.
>>14918887
Why not just open an eel farm? They don't have to swim a lot like tuna.
>>14921876
>not knowing eel do humongous migrations
>>14921890
I thought they were like worms and don't swim much. Can't you just create some kind of artificial place for them so they think they are migrating?
>>14922054
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eel_life_history
Artificial place? They swim a long long distance.
>>14925611
what if we make a canal the length of the country, so the eelses can swim to the slaughter house?
Why do Japs and asians in general buy so much fucking fruit in the US?
I work at a gricery stire and thise fuckers buy like 20lbs of bananas and a bunch of other fruit all the time. The only other people who sometimes do this are mexicans, health concious white people tend to buy half fruit half veggies.
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>>14937350
Age ;)
>>14918760
we actually had one of our state senators pass out from sodium deficiency. his physician had put him on a strict low salt diet for his heart.
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>>14880988
One thing my girl loved when she visited the states was the orange juice. I guess because its sweeter or possibly more fresh?
>>14881065
All the fucking walking. Every time I'm in Japan, Its a cardio game. 10k of walking every day.
>>14883313
Holy fuck.
>>14883313
Golf courses are literally some of the worst, most inefficient and shameless things for the environment as a whole.
They're actually disgusting wastes of space, regardless of the country.
>>14942104
Agreed. Disc golf is a much more ecological sport.
>>14908283
>But I don't think it should affect prices so much.
True it shouldn't, and really it doesn't. I'm just saying it's why we produce purely in sheer bulk.
>>14938105
>cardio game
>10k of walking
Oh boy, we have an American here.
