That is damn expensive

Yep, about $2.75 per apple.

When we lived in Japan, the exchange rate was at least double what it is today. There was a place that had an all you can eat buffet. Every table had a grill plate, and then they had a cooler full of ingredients. You'd get the ingredients, take them to your table and cook them. It was 1000¥ per person. We loved going there because that was $4.00 per person.

Most of the years that we lived there (late 70s and again mid 80s) the exchange rate ranged between ~200¥ to a peak of almost 280¥ to the dollar. I think we came back right before it dropped to almost equal (100¥ ~ $1.00).

When we lived in Waipahu, Hawaii we had 7 or 8 papaya trees, a mango tree, guava tree, and two banana trees. Guavas really stink when they hit the ground and rot.

I would go pick the papayas and load them in a little red wagon and sell them door to door. I never made much money, but it got rid of a few dozen papayas per week. We ate all we could, but we got sick of them after a while. At the time a fresh picked pineapple from the miles of fields behind our house was a dime. So sweet all our guest thought mom had soaked them in sugar water.

My grandparents had a apricot tree in their back yard. One day when they were perfectly ripe my brother went out there and ate a lot of them. Then grandma called us in for dinner. I had to stuff myself to keep her from being mad I had ruined my dinner on apricots.

oh man. a perfectly tree ripened apricot is the best thing on the planet fruit-wise. the perfect window is so short. everything, squirrels, birds are waiting for the perfect timing.

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I used to love Seinfeld. They were all great, but Kramer was absolutely the best part of the whole show.