IN Los Angeles, a strawberry – Yes, an individual berry – sold for $ 19.99. The berries are from Japan, a luxury grocery store and Erwhon are so popular, it is difficult to keep them in stock.
The $ 20 strawberry, which labeled “Dystopian” and “Social Practice”, went viral after affecting tiktok eat and saying “wow”. O Video – manufactured by an impact on occurring a part of the family who owns eere– quickly broke out of a copy: from Emin reviews for parodies and franks and even one Camera taste test By ABC News Anchos. A tiktok video in a A blonde comedian in a glow “Poors” eats the video to Poors “Poors”: “It’s something you can never pay … I’ll taste it since you will never.”
Strawberries – Absurdly Priced, What should be with astonishing individual carbon footprints – It seemed like an example of an elite decadensiya, it can only be an empire product of an empire.
When I sent an outstanding scientist of one of the Roman Empire on Strawberry, Nouveau-Riche’s Satrika’s Satrika referred to TrimalChio serves Rome guests Dormice rolling in a roasting boat full of appetites, puppets and live birds organized in the form of signs.
At the moment, my job as a journalist was clear: strawberries had to taste myself, and the $ 20 strawberry, I should ask for more scientists.
Luxury fruit
High-ended fruit has long been famous in Japan Unusual melon regularly costs hundreds of dollars and sometimes sold tens of thousands. In 2016, a bunch of ramut novel grapes sold more than a million – a vintage of about 270 pounds.
Erwhon, the only grocery store that inspires both Louis Vuitton Perfume and a Balenciaga CollectionThis is not the first to introduce luxury fruit tendency to Americans. OISHII, a company that grows in Japanese strawberries in the United States, Headings made six years ago Fashion with American chefs who like to use them up to a perfect minimalist omakase dinner, because of a 50 dollar strawberry with American chefs.
Suli fruit company Elyly Amai, $ 20 berries require a lot of skill and special methods to grow, and the United States said in the phrase “quality and taste is tracked for quality and taste.”
“Strawberries, who do not meet the qualifications, are not accumulated by farmers,” said Elly Amai, each berry, at least the “two checkpoints” for one’s perfection and the berries reached the United States.
Other companies also went to send luxury fruit from Japan to American consumers. The IKIGAI fruits, which began in 2023, selling “Pearl white” Japanese strawberries $ 128 a boxand Additional great “bijinhime” strawberries This cost cost $ 258.
Takeru Saito, a sales assistant in the IKIGAI fruits, was given to Japanese farmers who fought young people interested in the company’s employment and relatively weak work. “The number of farmers decreases – and this is the population of the aging,” said Saito. One government report was found last year 80% of Japanese farmers were over 60. Saito said, “More farmer can earn money,” by selling the international market to the international market.
The appeal of a luxury fruit in Japan is aimed at tradition: delicate products are a traditional gift for weddings, job promotions and other ceremonies. Expensive fruits in the United States are more innovation. In the statement, Erwhon, 20 dollars of Ely Amai strawberries in Japan and described in their heads “and” Broccoli in Brokcoli in New York, “said Erwhon,” he said.
The berries fly fast enough to protect the freshness of the “fruits up to the cost of the cost” until the fruits. This did not respond immediately to a question about the carbon footprint of strawberries.
Eerile perfect berries
The California, which produces 90% of the grown strawberries in the United States, according to the California Strawberry Commission, was selling about 10 to 14 kopecks. This flew from Japan as much as 200 times as local berries. Can it be 200 times delicious?
I finally called a few days to find someone with strawberries in stock. On Thursday, an employee said he could come to the berry afternoon. I ran to the store at 1 pm and was awarded about 50 single berries on a shelf.
Each strawberry rested on an individual pedestrian that resembles a small domed jewelry or similar to a scene like a striker. An explanation board from Elly Amazia “The usual strawberries promised to remove the extraordinary heights.
I faced myself the task of choosing a strawberry from a crowded shelf. Given the price label, it felt as a purchase of a supermarket less than the beginning of a relationship. Was this eerili perfect berry to be the right to bring it into my life?
Onions just published a satirical title about Erwhon $ 19 to demand strawberries “designed to be divided“But I took this opinion seriously. As a man who had to consume Eewhon products for my work, it was to be divided between at least three.
I allowed the berry room to reach the temperature, as Elly Amai recommended, the cheapest supermarket, which cost $ 4.99 from 16 to 4.99, conveyed him to a friend’s house with the management group.
Closed, the contradiction between the berries was amazing. The $ 20 strawberry was not greater than cheap strawberries, but it seemed very different. The color was a single light red and the skin was bright. Every pore around each of their seeds seemed smooth and strong, as if there was a high-level fruit area.
In Los Angeles, I had a long time to know that such beauty was not natural: this berry looked as if there was a team of individual coaches, facilities and special stylists. Ordinary strawberries, on the contrary, the spotted, the uneven and pores seemed to be swollen. The leaves were long and food.
We cut the US $ eight slices like a miniature cake. I threw a slice into my mouth. It was neither sweet, sturdy nor stingy nor abdomen. “This is a platonic strawberries,” he said.
We tried the next ordinary strawberries, but we can not worry: Despite the deep red color, it tasted crisp and immature without the essence of very strawberries.
We went back to riffing each other to describe how luxury strawberries sliding our minuskulu. “This is a type of sex – it was cultivated to be perfect over hundreds of generations,” he said.
The more we eat, we felt more. There was something about the taste of $ 20 strawberries, as if the process of perfection of natural things passed through the point of pleasure. As I mentioned my friend, it was not possible to taste this perfect strawberry without thinking about hundreds of or thousands of flawless strawberries thrown along the way.
In the past, at all, we ate at least one handful of strawberries at a time, and the flavored changes were part of the experience. As children, each berry surprise was angry and even enjoyed some nostalgia as adults.
A little sad, eating only one strawberry and knew each bite will be the same and perfect. Experience, my friend said, “A piece of fruit felt like a smell of Le Labo perfume than eating.
What about Rome?
Now I have to taste a $ 20 strawberry, but in fact, I need to understand that it is as an extreme cultural decadensiya sign that an empire can lead to fall.
Michael Kulikowski, Penn State University Classic Prof. There is a good news: Many people’s fall of the Roman Empire’s fall with cultural decadiation, most people have been a few things about Roma, including many decadents, he said. In fact, the most famous decadent periods of the novel, in an unusual era, the landfill, in an unhappy period, “300 years ago”, the imperial power came to the “300 years ago.”
Bryan Ward-Perkins, an Oxford historian and the end of the autumn and civilization, made a similar point: “Great literary expression in the Roman extravagant destadent”, “When things go very well”, “When things go very well”.
Unfortunately, Kulikowski said there were other signs that the American Empire could approach the fall.
Kulikowski claims that the West is 476 to fall, the body or the East Roman Empire was so strong because he needed a state to work “1%” of the West Roman Empire.
“They can retain their taxes. When it comes to pushing Push, they can raise their own armies,” he said. In the East Roman Empire, on the contrary, the aristocracy was weak, and still found value to support the bureaucracy of the state.
This was a bad news for the present American Empire: “We have reached 1% of the late Roman West, said,” Kulikowski said. “If the US government stops most of the thing, he stops the importance of it. The real parallel.”
The $ 20 strawberry was not interested in him, but a better sign of the trump’s tariffs: “The collapse of the American empire is a better sign of the fall (in two years or two years in the middle market supermarket,” Kulikowski said.
Like someone who doesn’t think much about the Roman Empire, I swam this analysis. I could only hope that future historians will be properly: the empire did not accuse the $ 20 strawberry in the wreckage of the empire.
