In The Evenings,

when we are both watching television,

we both nibble at some fresh fruit, grapes, apples, melons you name it, but I guess we would pay more attention to the melons if we chose a couple of Yubari melons, a local fruit wholesaler at the Japanese Sapporo Central Wholesale Market, snapped up the 3.7-kilogramme Yubari melons at the high-end fruit and vegetable sale which took place on the first day of the season for the prestigious melons, it was the third-highest price ever paid for the luxury melon brand and cost the equivalent of splashing out on a small car, yes you read that correctly, the equivalent of splashing out on a small car! the price of the pair of melons? 1.6 million yen, (at today's rate £10,480 or $16,000),


the official name of this melon variety is Yubari King, it was created in 1961 by crossbreeding a Spicy Cantaloupe and an Earl’s Favourite, the name Yubari Melon is a registered trademark owned by the Yubari City Agricultural Cooperative, this means that only Yubari Kings that are shipped by them can bear the name of Yubari Melon, since Yubari Melons ripen in only a few days after being harvested, up until a few years ago they were only available in Hokkaido, because of this, they used to be called “dream melons,” I think we will just carry on dreaming about them and continue with the local ones!