Identify if you can!

Runningwolf · Jun 9, 2010

Can you identify this fruit. Not just the type but also the name?

AlFulchino · Jun 9, 2010

looks like it was in styrofoam..was that to keep it chilled or just from being crushed?

19 questions to go.....

Runningwolf · Jun 9, 2010

This is another look at it...

ibglowin · Jun 9, 2010

Ruby Roman grapes.

$26 per grape ($600 per pound) in Japan.

What do I win?

Wade E · Jun 9, 2010

Plouts?

Runningwolf · Jun 9, 2010

ibglowin said:
Ruby Roman grapes.

$26 per grape ($600 per pound) in Japan.

What do I win?

Dang mike you're no fun to play with. I'll have to dig deeper next time!

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This perhaps goes some way to explaining how a single bunch of grapes yesterday fetched a record £465 - the equivalent of £13 per grape.<O

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A hotel manager paid that amount for a 1.5lb of Ruby Roman grapes to serve guests.<O

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"We believe the price was probably a record high," said local agricultural official Hirofumi Isu. <O

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Fruitcake? A handful of new Ruby Roman grapes which sold for £460 in Japan
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The tomato-coloured grapes made their debut at an auction in Japan's northwestern Ishikawa prefecture, where they have been under development since 1994 in a state-led project.<O

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The bunch that fetched the top price had about 35 grapes, each slightly smaller than a pingpong ball, Isu said.<O

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The average price for the Ruby Roman grapes at Monday's auction was about £120 a bunch.<O

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Isu said local farmers hope to sell 1,500 bunches, or 1 ton, of the grapes by mid-September.<O

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Japanese are often willing to pay top prices for high-end fruits, especially for the prestige of owning the very first ones of the year.<O

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Monday's prices far exceeded those for the most popular premium variety, Muscat of Alexandria, which sell for as much as £45 a bunch at Tokyo's Ota fruit market, the country's largest, according to Koichi Kato, an official at fruit wholesaler Tokyo Seika Co.<O

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"It could be a congratulatory price for its debut," Kato said of Monday's auction in Ishikawa. <O

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