Japan has strawberries that can be $500+ each.
I saw a cooking or travel show that featured the guy who grows those a while back. Apparently they taste absolutely amazing, but I can’t imagine justifying spending that much money on a strawberry.
Yeah I remember that.
For the amount of work the grower does you’re getting a steal but for what you’re getting … it’s a tall order.
I grow strawberries and have a container I try to baby and ill be honest you’d have to pay me more than 500 bucks to care for them that much 😂
Individually packaged strawberries… Some people just want to get fucked by the environment, don’t they?
We have reached peak Marie Antoinette stages of US opulence.
In most respects, most of us probably have a considerably higher standard of living than Marie Antoniette, simply because of what technological advancement has provided us with.
e.g.
https://www.pressreader.com/new-zealand/the-timaru-herald/20160530/281784218342032
Versailles stank. Not just the bodily tang one might expect 200 years before the invention of deodorant (that was 1888: a paste applied to the underarms), but a rank stench that permeated every room, every corridor, and wafted over the gardens.
‘‘I shall never get over the dirt of this country,’’ sniffed Horace Walpole on a visit to France.
Versailles, the centre of French political power from 1682, had more than 700 rooms but no functioning loos until 1768. By the time of the revolution, there were still only nine bathrooms, all in the private royal apartments. The contents of chamber pots were often simply flung out of the windows.
The royal dogs were not housetrained but nor were the courtiers and their servants who crammed into the building. The result was a lavatorial free-for-all, from which no corner of the palace was spared.
‘‘Versailles was a vast cesspool,’’ wrote one historian. ‘‘The odour clung to clothes, wigs, even undergarments. Beggars, servants, and aristocratic visitors alike used the stairs, the corridors, any out-of-the-way place, to relieve themselves.’’
For Louis XIV and his later imitators, architecture was politics, a way to overawe rivals for power - nobility, princes and lawyers - and focus attention exclusively on the ruler. But while Versailles looked magnificent from the outside, on the inside it was overcrowded, smelly and infested with vermin.
Most of us probably wouldn’t readily tolerate living like that.
French royalty could, no doubt, have live musicians or actors performing works that they want. But on the other hand, we have a vast digital library of video and audio of such scope and content…they could only comprehend them as dreams brought to life, created with resources well beyond what they could afford, because we have spread the costs over many and provided the output to many.
We can eat food from around the world in any season.
If I want the air in my living space to be chilly in summer, I can do so.
There are definitely some services that I’m sure that French royalty could avail themselves of that we cannot. But I think that it’s easy to lose perspective of how staggering the increases of standard-of-living have been over a couple of centuries.
The flying fuck is a erewhan?? Who is this for??
Think Whole Foods but even more expensive.
$19 strawberry is insane…
The fact that it’s imported from Japan at that price is just dumbfounding.
Like, there’s no way it can be better than the same variety grown locally and eaten fresh.
They’re probably flying these fucking these over to still be “fresh”.
Just setting their money and our planet on literal fire for social media flexes.
