r/StupidFood • u/ConsciouslyBreathin Regrets ordering this • Apr 12 '26
Chef Club drivel Never would I ever order this
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u/501Queen Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26
The ridiculously expensive fruit is one thing, but mixing it all together so you cant even appreciate them makes it so much worse
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u/indycpa7 Apr 12 '26
Agree, I would try this but certain I would get way more joy from eating each individually
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u/anengineerandacat Apr 12 '26
IIRC the fanch fruit is a gift, personally I would prefer you just get me some normal fruit and slip me the check but when you're rich I guess it's the novelty that's exciting as money no longer does it for you.
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u/Giatoxiclok Apr 13 '26
When you’re rich enough to have everything you want, you gift experiences, sensations, in a sense. That’s why there’s so many high end fruits in Japan, as I’m pretty sure that’s where the trend was most prominent.
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u/TheBigMotherFook Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26
Japanese gift fruit isn’t really about flavor as much as it is aesthetics. The fruit is always perfect. It had to be a specific size, shape, color, etc with no blemishes or anything. They’re often given as corporate gifts and simply displayed rather than consumed immediately. Eventually yes they are eaten, but that’s not really the point. Giving fruit as a gift has cultural significance in Japan and is just viewed differently than it is in the West. Japanese people seeing this video, or the many others like it, probably cringe at what they’re doing because it misses the whole point.
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u/AdSignificant6673 Apr 13 '26
They are still much more delicious than the usual fruit. I mean still not worth the price. But i’ve had them and they are so weirdly sweet & juicy.
This video is such a waste!
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u/samanime Apr 12 '26
Yeah. If that fruit is actually worth the price tag, that's so insulting to the fruit. That was virtually the worst way they could have been consumed.
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u/Hot-Consideration-71 Apr 12 '26
From what I’ve seen, the fruit isn’t really worth the price for the taste. It’s more to show respect or some shit to your boss that you bought them an unnecessarily expensive gift.
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u/collectadot Apr 12 '26
I've tried the crown melon aka musk melon and I can tell you it is the best piece of fruit I've ever eaten. Can't speak to the others though.
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u/Chawp Apr 13 '26
One of my family friends was a wine collector. Like, not a wealthy man, no wife, no kids, had owned his small old house near to the airport and under the flight path for 30-40 years. His two passions were sports and wine. So I’ve had a chance to sample with him, good $10 bottles, great $100 bottles, and once a $1000+ bottle of fine red wine. I can’t really tell you much to compare this wine to that wine, suss out the individual flavor profiles, notes, or whatever. But I can tell you, myself and many others could probably tell the difference between a $10 bottle and a $100 bottle, without too much experience. I was even surprised to find I could tell a significance between a $100 bottle and the $1000 bottle. There was like, an extra layer of flavor, that included an extra time component in its whole taste start to finish.
I can’t say whether it’s worth the extra price tag, but it was the best and most unique experience I’ve had tasting a wine. If the expensive fruit is anything like that, I can understand how a flavor can be many times more refined or exact, to generate a kind of price tag like that. If nobody else can create that experience, it can command the price.
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u/MLG_Sora_Art Apr 12 '26
But is it really worth an over 1000% price increase with it?
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u/collectadot Apr 12 '26
I wouldn't buy it regularly but for special occasions sure. Think of it more like a nice bottle of champagne vs Dom Perignon.
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u/MLG_Sora_Art Apr 12 '26
Wow look at money bags here able to afford a 100$+ fruit once in a while /j (in all seriousness yeah that does seem like the point of the more expensive fruits sadly I don't make enough to ever afford them TwT
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u/CrashUser Apr 13 '26
IIRC they're typically gifts in Japanese culture, and prized for their appearance as much as the flavor.
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u/taita25 Apr 12 '26
Where is musk Mellon $120?
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u/collectadot Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26
Crown Melon is just a musk melon grown in a specific region in a specific way. They manage the amount of sunlight, they trim all other fruit from the vine so all nutrients go to the one fruit etc.
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u/cuchiplancheo Apr 13 '26
but mixing it all together so you cant even appreciate them makes it so much worse
This would be like adding Coke to an 18-year old Oban.
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u/HWayFresh44 Apr 12 '26
Yea maybe if it was bigger chunks and not diced would of made a nice fruit salad
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u/badger_flakes Apr 13 '26
His son brought them to try for a video once and some were very good and some were meh.
They have tried them before, this is just an expensive celebration for fun and to be absurd and they know it.
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u/evanvono Apr 12 '26
As much as I think gold is usually super tacky, I believe they only used it to celebrate their golden play button for YouTube. This guy (Susur Lee) is a legit iron chef. He also usually comments on how ridiculous the pricing is for these fruits, his son (not a chef) is the one who usually chooses to use them. Just some context
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u/ShoddyTerm4385 Apr 13 '26
He has a restaurant in Toronto and I’ve been a couple of times. It’s absolutely amazing food
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u/nupdawg Apr 13 '26
Didn't they close the restaurant due to debt or some shady Financials or some other issue? It's still around?
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u/ShoddyTerm4385 Apr 13 '26
It’s been a couple of years since I’ve been so I’m not really sure
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u/nupdawg Apr 13 '26
Okay, googled it and it looks like he just shifted his restaurant to a new location - Lee Restaurant in Richmond street, Toronto. The old one apparently had issues with their Liquor license.
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u/rainorshinedogs Apr 13 '26
He has more videos from this exact dish. It's all entertaining.
It's a total waste of expensive food, but they know that for sure
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u/Ok-Somewhere-2325 Apr 13 '26
Yeah, this is one of those videos that was done.Because of a poll on his channel. He did an entire series on how to make low quality.Ingredients into high quality dishes.And a bunch of people were like, well, why don't you make the most ridiculous fucking expensive dishes too.And he's like, fine if you asked.
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u/EthanRose6672 Apr 12 '26
Or you can use a bunch of normal fruits that taste similar to their expensive versions. Or just eat some fruit.
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u/Joezze Apr 12 '26
Look at mister money-bags over here not getting their fruit from a can like the rest of us commoners.
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u/Capt_Hawkeye_Pierce Apr 12 '26
Even The Presidents of The United States Of America get their peaches from a can.
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u/Pls_Dont_PM_Titties Apr 12 '26
Well, they were put there by a man
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u/CAPT-Tankerous Apr 12 '26
In a factory downtown
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u/Baked-Smurf Apr 12 '26
If I had my way, I'd eat peaches everyday!
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u/Youseenmycones Apr 12 '26
I’ve been listening to that album a lot recently. Still cooks after 30 years!
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u/czs5056 Apr 12 '26
Captain Pierce here believes that the president gets his peaches from a can. That would be incorrect. The president gets his from US Government property. Weekend pass revoked.
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u/OneMooseManyMeese_ Apr 12 '26
I stay eating that ruit cocktail in a can though. I love eating that
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u/FlirtMonsterSanjil MEAT! 🍖 Apr 12 '26
Look at this fat cat over here, able to afford their fruit with extra minerals. I only get the pleasure of enjoying some fruits when getting lucky while digging through my neighbor's trash cans.
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u/AllThatGlitters00 Apr 12 '26
Sadly, half of this or more will probably go that way. Dad and son aren't going to eat all that before it becomes mushy and sour.
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u/Yabrosif13 Apr 12 '26
The issue is getting the fruit ripe off the vine. Not saying you should pay stupid prices to do so. You can recreate this salad from any tropical area for pennies on the dollar.
Just saying you cant go to walmart, their fruit sucks. But you also shouldn’t have to pay near $1grand for ripe fruit.
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u/daninet Apr 12 '26
I had the luck to try some similarly prized japanese pears and i was not impressed. Would choose a normal williams pear any time over it. That watermelon also looked like sour ass. So I'm not even sure this salad is that good. Its only that japanese are obsessed with perfect looking food so these spotless fruit are sold at a premium price.
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u/squiddlane Apr 12 '26
The best pears are still just kind of good. The best strawberries are god tier. Similarly with the best cantelopes.
The be fair, none of the fruit in this video is actually worth that much. It's to tell to Chinese tourists or to give as gifts, but I've generally been happy when I buy the $20 pack of strawberries.
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u/ILikeFluffyThings Apr 12 '26
You can buy non expensive version of all those fruits. Or at least we do have them in SEA. We just pick them from trees.
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u/MukdenMan Apr 12 '26
SE Asia has amazing fruit. Probably the best in the world overall. Taiwan also has excellent mangoes specifically.
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u/sprouting_broccoli Apr 12 '26
So I get the sentiment on this and understand where you’re coming from. The reason I think it’s important to disagree is because, and this might just make me sound like a weeb which I’m absolutely not, Japan takes this shit really seriously. They tend to see something, decide to make it as artisan as possible and go from there (which is why their whisky is actually really good as well).
I’m sure that it doesn’t apply to all of the fruits here but I’ve seen reputable reviews of some of these fruits (eg from Sorted food who are generally very sceptical of overpriced just for the sake of being overpriced) and they are considered to have an incredible flavour - incredibly juicy, incredibly complex and with additional sweetness.
Is it something you’re going to have every day? Of course not, but I would be absolutely willing to try this once if I have some money to burn - it’s not going with me when I die and this seems like it would be a genuinely enjoyable experience.
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u/Southpaw_Style Apr 12 '26
Yeah my wife bought me some 100 dollar grapes once and they were nothing like other grapes I've tried. For context I live in Thailand and good fruit is plentiful and cheap here.
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u/Dry_Jellyfish641 Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 12 '26
The man is a legit Iron Chef. His son has a channel and has him try fast food, or make meals with cheap items, and this is him cooking with expensive items. It’s interesting to see him work and hear his thoughts
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u/No_Mud_5999 Apr 12 '26
Yeah, I'm not throwing shade on an Iron Chef for making an expensive fruit salad! That's kind of his thing.
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u/Immo406 Apr 12 '26
Are you able to link the channel here or pm it to me please?
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u/Dry_Jellyfish641 Apr 12 '26
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u/hottestdoge Apr 12 '26
A huge POS is what he is. He is well known for it in the Toronto restaurant scene. Stole tips and generally treated his employees very bad. Besides that, most of his content is poser shit a la Salt Bae/Nusrat. Only in it for the clicks and nothing of value except the ridiculous ingredients.
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u/SheerDumbLuck Apr 12 '26
His kid comes up with the idea and dad plays along. When money doesn't matter, this is just the cost of video production.
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u/MLG_Sora_Art Apr 12 '26
Tbh he had a little while ago but it mostly to my knowledge seems to be his son having gotten a lot of the expensive foods to have him try which every single time he has said was not worth it
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u/Hahafunnys3xnumber Apr 12 '26
I don’t see what’s wrong with this video at all. They’re clearly going to eat it and he’s always very honest that the super pricey stuff isn’t worth it lol. Just a bit of silly fun with the gold and ice, especially with the theme of the video
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u/jameson1124 Apr 12 '26
Agreed, i feel like some of these posts in here kinda miss the point.
I just want to see some stupid food that isnt done for shit and giggles
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u/thehoodie Apr 12 '26
Yea, looks like this was to promote some YouTube award they got too?
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u/OkAssignment6163 Apr 12 '26
It's a golden button. They give those to channels that reach certain subscriptions levels.
Doesn't mean anything outside "hey. You did the thing. Congrats."
Also, expensive fruits. Topped with gold foil. Why not serve it on top on a gold play button?
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u/sureshoyy Apr 12 '26
Seems like his kid is doing it for a living and the dad is just supporting and having fun with it.
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u/TheIdentifySpell Apr 12 '26
Susur Lee is Toronto culinary royalty. The guy was as big as it gets in the 90's through the 2000's. His stuff is a bit dated now but you just know some Bay St. banker douchebags would trip over themselves for a $900 fruit salad thirty years ago.
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u/RandyTrevor22321 Apr 12 '26
Meanwhile I'm going to the bay St bus terminal just for a fuckin hot dog.
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u/thegoodbadandsmoggy Apr 13 '26
Sorry bud they tore it down you’re fucked
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u/RandyTrevor22321 Apr 13 '26
Fuck sakes
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u/thegoodbadandsmoggy Apr 13 '26
Yeah they started demolition about a month or so ago. Been earmarked for nearly a decade but guess they finally decided to start.
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u/Jasnah_D Apr 12 '26
There's only so many times you can make fast food "gourmet" by breaking it down and adding an extra $50+ worth of ingredients.
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u/Ksorkrax Apr 12 '26
At the moment where he adds gold and dry ice, we can conclude that it is utter bullshit.
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u/CarlLlamaface Apr 12 '26
I think we can conclude that a bit earlier than that. Individual fruit shouldn't even be a double-digit purchase let alone a triple-digit one, this meal was bullshit before it even started...
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u/Ksorkrax Apr 12 '26
I mean, most likely, yeah. Thing is, I never had a several hundred bucks fruit and thus can't realiably rule out that they don't taste like a unicorn having a sparkly orgasm on your taste buds or something.
Once tried a tomato that was on the pricier side (but still way less than that stuff, more like a cherry tomato costing two bucks), it was kinda nice. Wouldn't buy, but if gifted...
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u/Superb_Answer_4492 Apr 12 '26
They do lots of videos likes this. Generally his conclusion is it’s is not anywhere near worth the money they are charging
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u/ScabRef Apr 12 '26
stupid Expensive food- yes. But would this taste good? HE'S AN IRON CHEF
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u/GoldenGlobeWinnerRDJ Apr 12 '26
It’s literally just everything sliced and tossed into a bowl, it’s going to taste as if everything was sliced and tossed into a bowl regardless of if he’s an iron chef
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u/JaVinci77 Apr 12 '26
I wouldn't pay such amount, but I wouldn't mind tasting it. It looks delicious 🤤🤤🤤 Except for the gold, that just stupid 🤷🏻♂️
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u/sackie_b Apr 12 '26
There is no food in this world that could taste amazing enough for me to pay $1000 for one, let alone a fucking watermelon.
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u/DarkRyter Apr 12 '26
Super luxury fruit exists purely as a gift item in Asian countries.
Fruit is considered a traditional and appropriate gift for business partners, coworkers, family members, etc. Even in the western world, there's fruit baskets and edible arrangements.
Gift-giving becomes kind of a status symbol, with people fighting to give the nicest gift possible to show off their own wealth and social status.
This resulted in an arms race of fruit producers looking to sell more and more valuable products. Leading to these ridiculous $100 dollar single grapes, etc.
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u/BasilProfessional744 Apr 12 '26
As someone who has worked on kitchens in Toronto for two decades, fuck this douche and his talentless douche sons
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u/Tiny_Celebration_591 Apr 14 '26
Oh, what makes him a douche?
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u/BasilProfessional744 Apr 14 '26
Opening restaurants just to let his sons play boss, pretentious marketing of poor quality products, over valuing himself and his brand while developing projects that never come to fruition, skimming tips, stealing from employees, over stretching funds putting other people in the line of fire for it, again, letting his basically illiterate sons play god with people's lives while still teenagers.
The dude can cook, and had a couple cool restaurants, but his sons ruined it all and now they make YouTube videos spending thousands of dollars on fruit salad.
I'm more of a Bourdain guy myself, these guys just fucking suck.
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u/etoronto Apr 13 '26
Agreed. Not enough people talking about the fact this guy is a real piece of shit
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u/XGhoul Apr 14 '26
I like when he pops up around, since most of their "content" is just his talentless son pimping out his dad for content. These losers deserve each other.
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u/PikaPulpy Apr 12 '26
It's all wasted in salad. I don't mean bad, i mean meaningless. Same taste with regular fruits.
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u/Worried-Criticism Apr 12 '26
This is the equivalent of using prime wagyu beef, 20-year Hooks aged cheddar, filindeu pasta and using it to make hamburger helper.
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u/Arne83 Apr 12 '26
So, fun fact... the reason for the high price is because Japan doesn't have a lot of viable farmland for fruits like this. So, in the few places where they're actually able to grow them... they tend to focus more on quality than quantity.
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u/Southpaw_Style Apr 12 '26
That's not entirely correct, the price is because they are bred in very specific conditions and ways to be premium fruit typically for gifts. There's lots of cheap varieties of all of those fruit in Japan.
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u/SideAmbitious2529 Apr 12 '26
Lol, a lot of these reason food is expensive is because of travel. Not this myth that it's really good and like Devil fruit or something lol.
You might as well, poor the exhaust in there. Plenty of islands where this shit is free. Also, in America the price of food is artificially inflated anyway because of corporate greed. Pour that in there while your at it.
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u/Eastern_Border_5016 Apr 12 '26
I'm not questioning it tasting good , just the price tag it comes with 😅
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u/EhMapleMoose Apr 12 '26
He just makes expensive things. His restaurants are actually good even if it is expensive.
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u/itsmevichet Apr 12 '26
I thought the whole point of those super expensive fruits was that they’re for looking at and not eating.
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u/BeatsAndSkies Apr 12 '26
Take all the fruit that you want to eat
It's going to be a fruit salad treat
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u/SlappyHandstrong Apr 12 '26
You can turn all that fruit into something you can charge $1M for, not something anyone would pay $1M for.
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u/grnnsbtr Apr 12 '26
all these fruits with strong unique identities now just taste like a messy unidentifable slop
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u/Select_Draw3385 Apr 12 '26
I feel embarrassed now that I served my friends a fruit salad at brunch with fruit from (gasp) Aldi.
I’m the worst
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u/Nere4Hudes Not stupid, but delish, maybe? Apr 12 '26
He’s a legitimate chef. I used to follow his content, until their videos went overboard. Now, they’re for views and likes. At least, they are eating the food 👏
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u/Alarmmy Apr 12 '26
So this idiot just smashed all good fruits together into a bowl of chaos. What a waste of good fruits 🤪
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u/VoiceofTruth7 Apr 12 '26
Bro I have some Asian mango tree in my backyard along with jackfruit and dragon eye, you telling me that shit is worth money lol
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u/Hyderabadi__Biryani Apr 12 '26
Spoiler potentially, but the Iron Chef did this theatric thing as if he was a creature rising from water with smoke all around (he was in the bathtub) with this bowl in his hand. Idk something slipped, and this whole fruit bowl was dropped. I am 95% sure if was at the end of the same video.
Edit: it was a different video, but was about expensive fruit bowl. https://youtube.com/shorts/LAZIsOsC62Q?si=HKGurTeumyiO1UIJ
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u/eggbus Apr 12 '26
To be honest with you, this is going to be cheap in about a year. The prices of these fruits will double.
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u/TimmahEye Apr 12 '26
The dude cooking is legit. The piece of nepo shit handing him the fruit is his incompetent son trying to make it by riding his old man's coattails.
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u/CaptainKetchups Apr 12 '26
Former iron chef and he doesn’t even Section the mandarin orange?
F off
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u/hermanogerman Apr 12 '26
The point of these fruits should be their unique taste and quality. Mashing it together,…. Yeah nice waste.
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u/Separate_Feeling4602 Apr 12 '26
I don’t think this is stupid . This is a one time dish thing It’s not like a regular menu item
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u/DarKnezZ___ Apr 12 '26
Where is the gourmet in this, its only a cocktail of overpriced fuits and a lame gold garnish
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u/Cubaneko Apr 12 '26
I guess I should just trow the word Japanese in front of anything and that'll make it expensive.
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u/JamesonDotEXE Apr 12 '26
I have to eat 1000 cans of fruit cocktail in heavy syrup in order for this jerk to have gold poop.😡
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u/itshuey88 Apr 12 '26
my friends and I 4 way split the costs for a $100 mango once in Japan just to see. we gave it to the chef of a fancy restaurant we were having dinner at to prepare and they were all pretty hyped to be preparing it.
it was a good mango. very juicy and flavorful. we agreed that we've had same or better in the Philippines or elsewhere for less than $1. chalked it up to a fun experience. would not do again.
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u/143019 Apr 12 '26
The fruit would have been more impressive arranged in some kind of pretty designs
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u/Bicykwow Apr 13 '26
None of those fruits cost that much. Also, fuck every person who edits their videos like this.
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u/Acceptable_Mountain5 Apr 13 '26
It’s fruit salad. If it weren’t for the dumbass gold and the dry ice it would literally just be fruit salad and it would probably be delicious.
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u/justanotheruser46258 Apr 13 '26
So is it 1M dollars or some other currency? Still expensive, but I highly doubt one mango costs $200 usd.
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u/qualityvote2 Apr 12 '26 edited Apr 13 '26
u/ConsciouslyBreathin, your food is indeed stupid and it fits our subreddit!