I don’t know why, but I constantly want to eat stuff. Maybe cus everything is new and exciting and cus there’s so much to choose from. Buying groceries is fucking expensive tho. And some fruits are insaaanely expensive! The other day we bought 3 apples for 500 yen/ 4 EUR/ 42 SEK/6 dollars! _Three_! Okay, the apples were huge.. but..

I now know WHY they cost so much and the story behind it is kinda neat. Apparently there’s some restriction on the import of apples, meaning they want to keep “the foreign apples” at a minimum and protect their own. The japanese apples go through some pretty insane processes in order to achieve the right quality. Farmers wrap the apples in different kind of colored papers in order for them to get the exact right color. And this is all done while the apples are still ON THE TREES. The paper protects the apples from getting too much sun and getting “too red” (among other things). And yea, that does sound like a lot of work, so I understand why they’re expensive.

“Nihon no ringo” — “Japanese apple” in japanese :D