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Oh yes, it is that time of year again
for super expensive fruit!!!
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thank you very much
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I-You know what? I blame you all for encouraging him
look you've been asking for this for a while now you want us
to explore the range of expensive fruit
yes
So today we are going to be doing super expensive cherries
I gotta be honest. I knew that we were getting cherries today, which is why I'm wearing cherry earrings
Yep
I don't know the price.
I had a new strategy as you might have seen in this little video that I did
What do you mean? Roll the footage (laugh)
Hello, everybody and welcome back to another edition of "Simon bought very expensive fruit, is he gonna get in trouble for it?"
I've got a trick up my sleeve this time. Are you ready? Let me pause and show you
I got flowers as well. You can't be angry if your husband buys you flowers. It's a general rule as old as time
They're really nice flowers. I'll be honest. -Thanks.
I'll tell you what's gonna make this video extra good.
What?
Meemers
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Dont be distracted by the Meems.
Red cherries in Japan are very expensive, these also are cherries from Yamagata.
Now they're sometimes called red jewellery. -Ooh
And usually... -Oh Oh -Yes
Usually, they go for like a buck a cherry. But for this one we didn't spend a buck a cherry we lucked out.
This is a cheaper one. It's 11 cherries for 10 bucks
This is the cheap pack. -This is the cheap pack, right here.
And it costs you 10 bucks for 11 cherries.
But this one right here. -No we're done, no this is already enough.
Well. Yeah, I guess you can't return it. -You can't return it
No returns on fruit. -Like, this is enough super expensive fruit for one video.
Are you ready? Happy birthday, girl.
It was Martina's birthday a couple days ago, so happy birthday to you
Don't use this as an excuse. -I do this because I love you. girl.
If you guys are watching this for the first time...
... fruit in Japan is often given as a gift... -Yes
...so that's why this has been wrapped. -Right
Ooh dang. Okay. -Look at this sexy box
So we have this very lovely gift box of cherries from Hiashi fruits...
... which is a farm that's been around in Japan for over 80 years.
This is the nicest packaging we've ever seen so far. -What?!
You see this? With the gold. -For fruit?! Look at this crazy...
And it actually sticks out differently from the rest.
-Oh son!
Oh wow -Look at this beautiful...
...row of cherries. Do you see that? -These are pretty deep looking.
So there are 35 cherries here. Look at that!
Those are some gorgeous looking fat plump boys.
Smells like nothing.
Smells like a box. Give it to me, how much were these?
So for 11 cherries this was 10 bucks. -Yes
And for 35 of these cherries. -Yeah -It was a 100 bucks
No! -So not our most expensive fruit ever.
But still, they're so small! -They're so small!
Three bucks a cherry versus like, 90-something cents a cherry.
You could see the difference between these two. Your expensive one is bigger. It's a heftier boy. -It feels heavier.
Okay so... -Foreplay is over.
What is your theory-? What? What foreplay is happening here exactly? -Foreplay is over.
Time to pop some cherries
Were you waiting all... Just waiting -No I literally thought of that on the spot.
Well how would you pop a cherry here? -In your mouth. -Okay. Yes.
Yes, yes, sir. Yes. -Thank you. -Good joke.
Take the garbage cherry first. -I can't believe you're calling this a garbage cherry.
You know it is gonna be delicious. -I know it's gonna be amazing. All Japanese cherries, I love em.
Oh wow. -That's a super soft cherry.
I mean, that's a delicious cherry.
You bite into it like this..
Skin is a little bit tougher than the rest of the body like a thicker grape. -Exactly. -Yeah.
Except it's got like a beautiful cherry taste. There's no tartness to this at all. Just a smooth, sweetness
I think that I'm used to growing up with black cherry
That's this ubiquitous black cherry that we get in Toronto
It has a vague apple taste.
It does! A little bit minty. A little, a little...
like, fresh apple-ly, but no acidity to this at all. -There was like a little minty-apple-ly taste to it.
but if you look on the inside--
it's all white (let me see) these are all white on the inside -whoa that's so interesting. It looks like a grape
I know it's a plum meets a grape (mm-hmm little hint of apple) a little bit of Apple and mint
It's a great cherry. It is $11. Which is very expensive. Yeah, but if you have two drinks at Starbucks
That would be the price of this container, okay?
Meemers is eating the box packaging you didn't buy these
Now that we've tried -Do we need to wash our mouths -No no no no no no we need to keep this in our
Mouths so we can remember
Let's see how already the stems look a lot bigger actually yeah
I feel like this is gonna taste a lot different.
Wow
That's totally different that tastes like a peach much more honey this I think the thing that we've learned about expensive
Fruit is a taste honey in regular Japanese cherries
You can get the sugar content up like 14%, but in like the higher end ones
They go up to like 20%, and I think this might be it
And that's why you taste all the honey flavor in here
this is so sugary when I eat this and I actually started chewing it the back of my tongue has a
Remaining sugar flavor do you have it from this oh?
Yeah, now try one of these these tastes a lot more sour compared to that. Uh uh well go back
Ya know like you'll see what the contrast Wow these taste so sour now
They didn't taste sour before -These ones remind me a lot more of the North American style cherry it has that kind of like deep
Cherry taste -Yeah
But it does have like a super sugary taste in the back of your tongue
This tastes like when you're finishing off a freezie--
Have you ever had those long freezies and you finish it
And you got that like a little syrupiness at the end
This tastes like that. -The texture is different as well because this one has more of that crunchy bite
Then you get normally from a cherry. Yes, while these other ones have a jelly texture
This is a stronger flesh when I would get cherries back in North America
I would scoop up like a scoop and put it in a bag
I'll let you touch them you'd eat them
And you'd be like no flavor, no flavor, no flavor--
then you'd be like well that on was really good, (right) and then you kind of be like mushy, rotten,--
Every single one of these tastes perfect
So it's like you're guaranteeing that you're gonna get these 35 perfect cherries, right?
-I've not had one bad cherry -No, right
From what I read about these the reason why they're so expensive is because it's just so
Expensive to take care of them all year round -Of course, look at how little
This doesn't have any blemishes on it like they get rid of the
Leaves that block any sunlight on the cherries, and they also do some hand pollination
I have no idea if they like milk little bee nipples I
Didn't read the full science of it, but I think there's be nipple milk ish well to begin with
These don't use their nipples to actually pollinate. I think they do no
See, these are great cherries, but I just don't think you can eat that many of them in one sitting like I feel like
Huh, I'm about to that-- - Challenge accepted!
While you can sit down and hoover all of these cheapies
"Cheapies" Can you please (look) stop calling a cheapy -these are for the commoners. (Oh my god)
This is not for the commoners.
We don't buy fruit like this regularly. It's just for videos. Honestly.
So if you guys are living in Europe, or you're living in North America wherever it is you may be Australia
I'm curious as to what kind of the basic cherry you have like we're used to that black cherry that (yeah)
It comes imported from the state. -Yeah, they sell those here also as well
The super dark cherries, but maybe in Europe they're quite different, maybe Australia, New Zealand
So I'd love to know are your cherries mostly, sweet? Are they usually tart?
Are they sour? Are they like just totally inedible? (right) and how much do they cost cuz it's gonna be cheaper than these--
See, now I have a theory. Because like when I was there buying the fruit yesterday
Yes, I also saw $100 mango
And we got to see like what if the hundred dollar mango has the same honey thing
Is the secret to all expensive fruit -- Honey flavor?
Let's try that out tomorrow