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Originally Posted by red-beard

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).