Paul Hollywood Buys a £350 Strawberry
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- Опубліковано 26 чер 2020
- You wouldn’t wanna be asked to bring these to a picnic.
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"tell me about this one"
"bro it's a strawberry"
"yeah"
Lol he went yeaaaah? Lol
To anyone watching, this is inherited selection. This guy has been picking out the best strawberry out of 1 plant for 45 years and regrew it every plant cycle, and now has managed to perfect it. All he does now is regrow thousands of strawberry plants out of that perfect strawberry. What a legend!
Is there that much variation between strawberries on one plant and does that variation correspond to the dna in the seeds of that fruit, and only that fruit?
I always thought the strawberry flavour would be determined by the plant and the dna in its seeds determined by the plant and the plant it pollenated with.
What a pathetic greedy miserly old man. Most countries such as the Middle East or Pakistan would offer something that was as such high value to them for free as a guest (check vloggers all over youtube who frequent these places showing and proclaiming how hospitable the people are) they maybe poor in material terms but they are rich in the heart and contentment which makes all the difference, this miserly old bitter man couldn't even offer one from the farm he grows for the camera! This is what happens when wealth and money become your god till you almost worship them and you have no contentment and all you see is poverty.
@@basilbrush9075if you were to grow from seed, but he isn’t doing that. Avocados are also not grown from seed because it’s so rare to find a good one from seed (1/10000). Which is why all avocados you purchase are originally grafted from a rare growth.
Yup, this is the old way we created genetically modified organisms or GMOs. Now we have CRISPR tech and things like that. But it's still remarkable to take the time and make a product the "old school way."
Patience at best
I worked on a strawberry farm in the 80’s. They had this crazy variety that was just amazing! They were huge and honestly tasted of nothing I’d had before or since….I still think about them to this day. Farm stopped growing them because the supermarkets hated them because you couldn’t get many in a punnet and it buggered up their weights.
Yeah, when I was a kid we used to drive far to a farm where you could pick your own strawberries. I still think of them to this day. They were much tastier than the ones sold at the store. Sad that many people will never experience how delicious a lot of fruit can be.
Oh yeah, I remember those. They were huge and mutant and tasted amazing. I have wondered what happened to them...
If Paul was smart he would have saved some of the seeds.....🤣🤣🤣🤣
I don't think you understand how strawberry are grown.....
@@nntflow7058 They can be grown by seed depending on the hybridization characteristics of the cultivar in addition to bare-root/tissue culture
@@toyotadriver8101 he means you shit them out
He still can💩😅
If you plant the seeds, the strawberry that will grow will not be the same as the "mother".
It'd be pretty awkward if he said hmmm it tastes pretty normal.
its really good tho
Anyone get anxiety thinking "oh, he's going to drop it on the floor."
I like how he was making such a fuss in the beginning and then ended up being the biggest fan
2:02
What's this?
.......it's a strawberry 🍓 😄 😆 😋
This is quintessential Japan, a man who has dedicated his life to crafting the perfect specimen of his specialty
It would have been typically British to Jeremy Clarkson this but he didn't, I'm so glad he showed respect for this man's life's work and gave him the respect he deserved. Well done to him.
It would appear he's earned it, as well.
Exactly.
The 350 pound’s strawberry is the man’s life work. May be even going back generations. Careful selective breeding.
So its fair enough to say that I won’t spend 350 pounds on a strawberry but it’s unfairly denigrating to say that the strawberry isn’t even a strawberry bla bla bla 🙄
People pay a huge amount for caviar or truffles. And in the case of truffles, they aren’t even cultivated.
So what i hope is that this horticulturalist allows people to use his “seed/cuttings” etc and gets a license fee for life from it.
Hopefully it brings the price of the strawberries down while he makes the money he deserves for cultivating the strawberry
I saw some $50 plums the other day, but that strawberry is off the charts! The main purpose of high quality expensive fruit like that is to impress someone as a gift, which is why they also come in fancy boxes...
Yes. Japanese often treat these fruits as flex gifts to new people they meet.
@@meowarfmoodamn I need to find some Japanese friends then 😂
They weren’t my plums!
....my plums are worth about £2.50.....old and wrinkled....
@@mkace2198Sugoi rich Japanese only buy.
For 50,000 Yen i would have eaten the stalk and even the box it usually comes in
Made my mouth water just watching him eat it, maybe I could justify £20 for one but I think my wife would kill me if I spent £350 on a strawberry 🤣🤣
@Jogger Crimewave my wife would kill me if I did either of those too tbh 🤣
She won't kill you if you let her take the first bite. ^_^
I wouldn't even justify spending a fiver on one strawberry lol
@@Lungoosenot even £1 on a single strawberry
@@Lungooseif it’s good enough, £20 for a strawberry is fine. It’s for the experience of tasting the most sublime strawberry you’ve ever eaten.
It was satisfying just watching eat it 😂
the giggling and bows at the end kill me
He's not just happy that he got the money, Paul. Its craftsmanship! To be able to create such a strawberry and see others enjoy it. I think that's how japenese people are. They take pride and care in whatever they do. I think he got more joy seeing your reaction eating that strawberry.
There is no way anyone can make an excuse for a $350 strawberry
"craftsmanship" lol give me a break
Next time, it'll be an $1000 strawberry and folks will still come out and say it's worth it because it's craftsmanship. It's stupidity.
@@tshirtnjeans4829 anything can be expensive if there's value in it, there's nothing stupid about it, rich people can afford this, if you can't then its whatever
@@tshirtnjeans4829 I mean that's just normal inflation these days...
@@Hawkhunter07 You make a point. If idiots spend thousands on monkey jpegs and Bitcoin, they'll spend $350 on a strawberry and call it craftsmanship while the farmer is in the back laughing his ass off
@@tshirtnjeans4829 These are not strawberries that were grown normally, they require an extraordinary amount of exceptional care to get to the quality that they're at. Plus is it that strange though? Rich people are always willing to spend extra money for food that's of exceptional quality.....I wouldn't do it, but this certainly makes more sense than buying monkey jpegs
Him biting into the strawberry like an apple sold it for me! Japan trip incoming.
So your going all the way to Japan.. to buy a strawberry.. more money than sense some of these gold diggers
@@flemonmymouth6666not really something for you to worry about though, is it?
Incredible country, the food has to be amongst the very best on the planet
This is such a Japanese thing. They are utterly obsessive about quality and people spend their entire lives mastering the creation of whatever the consumable is. This is, I am sure, a unique and incredible Strawberry
Anyone that is handing over £350 for a single strawberry or even £20 has got more money than sense.
I wouldn't pay more than 3£ for a kilo
Or a TV show production budget.
@@FahadanKhalidwell I’m thinking their a bit better than your average box, probably like eating good quality sweets. So you pay a bit more but fuckin 20+ £ for 1 is a bit excessive.
There’s only so much sense one can have, but no real limit to money. If your wealth is such that £350 is proportionately the same as £1 to most people’s bank accounts, why not buy the delicious strawberry for “£1”?
@@RiverBlakefulbecause it's dumb and supports a nonsensical business. the "perfect" strawberries? massive amounts of pesticides.
The first one he tried was just the cheap kind yet expensive 😂
Strawberries 2$ per 1kg also makes me happy.
Anyone paying that for a strawberry is a MUG!
Funnily enough anyone who happens to have the name Paul Hollywood and have 100% of his genetic makeup is also a mug.
as someone who loves strawberries. I hope to have the money to buy these strawberries one day
Sell your kidney
@@ELLI0TR0DGER no
I'd rather steal one
@@dogsarentdangerous1195 words of someone who clearly doesnt understand what they're talking about. yes there will be lots of diminishing returns on say a 20 dollar strawberry vs a 400 dollar strawberry but its an experience, not just a strawberry. you're paying to experience the peak of what can possibly exist.
@@Novafan’peak’ according to the guy who’s selling it to you. You can get just as nice strawberries for far less but won’t believe it because it hasn’t got the ludicrous price to signify it
Man when freddos went up in price I was expecting this very experience
Event we get the same seed but not enough knowledge it's very hard to grow a plants with full attention of love.
Great strawberries are rare. The ones at the shop are mostly flavourless, or even a bit sour, depending on the time of year. Sometimes you get lucky and get some nice ones. I would pay $20 for one perfect strawberry like this, just for the experience, but not a chance in hell I would spend $500 for a single strawberry.
Come to Finland. Best strawberries in the world... After this Japanese dude obviously
no one in their right mind would buy them to eat in Japan either - they are mostly bought as gifts
UK has some of the best in the world
Grow your own
@@karkkimarkkinat2109sorry I’d have to say irish strawberries. And I’m not Irish so that isn’t biased 😂
Definitely heard he was coming 😂
Daylight robbery
That may just be the craziest thing I’ve ever seen on UA-cam. I understand luxury, but that was obscene.
Man it better be *BERRY* good at that price!
Paul went to the strawberry farm. its much cheaper than department store strawberries! make him go to Mitsukoshi or Takashimaya Shinjuku department store. or Isetan Shinjuku and go to fruit session.
Mr. Paul go to MELON farm. its 600 pounds each.
Good ebening
ba* dum* psh*
Mary berry
Thanks for making it bold otherwise we'd have missed the terrible joke
It's not about thinking it's expensive...it's about the amount of time and effort that goes into making it for that price.
Naturally, only a small number can be harvested. Any workmanship that is not worthy of that value will be at a reasonable price.
Japan is a country that is obsessed with manufacturing everything.
$360+ for that single strawberry. This guy spent years of his life crafting it, and he's charging 1year's worth at a dollar a day.
@@00MrPanda00 Looks like Paul is paying ￥50,000?
@@00MrPanda00 wrong. its nothing to do with it, what you are paying for is his astronomical electric bill for the hps and hid lights. these are hydroponic strawberries.
He nearly dropped it after the first bite 😆
Paul at the beginning: "What the fuck????"
Paul at the end: "Yeah okay that makes sense"
Smart, always get them hooked with a free sample.
This reminds me of Harry Enfields "I Saw You Coming" 😂
This summer I could eat as many wild strawberrys as I wanted
there is a fruit store in roppongi that was setup like a small jewelry store. You could buy perfect fruit there and the prices were outrageous. However, you cannot find any subpar fruit in japan even in grocery stores. There is basiclaly no market for damaged fruit in japan. You can even get this perfect fruit through the post office. They have fliers there that you can order from.
If you put love care and effort into your product you can charge whatever the hell you want
they look amazing compared to what I buy where I live. Price sounds crazy, but when I think of it, Ive spent the same for a glass of whisky or cuban cigar!
@cmeldrum3857 why are you out here just to insult people? Your own insecurities are showing...
Right? I'd do it for a once in a lifetime thing. Why not!
Not me thinking he would drop the strawberry at any point 🤣
Haha, Paul was so impressed, he gave the guy a handshake.
And he hadn’t even eaten the strawberry yet.
I love to see u smile & laugh
Hi
Go poop in your back yard and get your own supply! lol
I’m eating strawberries now. Made me go on the video. I’m imagining they are £1000 each
Who watching this gasped, when Paul ate the Strawberry worth 50,000 yen. And I am picky about the price of the grapes in a bag I just bought. Lol
These are perfect fruits, mostly to give for good luck or friendship, or to celebrate.
You know what. Once, just once I might be willing to try this.
This guy is growing them intensively indoors using hydroponics to achieve these results (smell, size, cleanliness, etc), no doubt about that.
In Bulgaria we just go to grandma village and get some. All the flavours are there and they are really really sweet and tasty. The mass produce are making them tasteless. Just visit Bulgaria we have delicious fruits
2:00
"Tell me about this.. well whats this then?
"This is a strawberry"
"......yeah?"
Strawberry drip report 👌what makes your strawberries the most expensive? The juice or strawberry blood 🤔
**Oishii has entered the chat**
Rip orf. He even counted the cash
How long does the aftertaste last with you?
Man it better be BERRY good at that price!. Definitely heard he was coming .
Where is this place?
He dint even give camaraman a bite.
The way the UK is going, this'll be the price soon here
This man takes care in his work. How much experience to grow that strawberry
what is this variety called
soaks them in flavours
I demand a Pixar or Studio Ghibli film about a sweet older man in Japan who invents new strawberries
Does he sell seeds?
Not even for hundred of the best strawberrys ever planted would I ever pay that price.
Broke
@@hazzurs Yeah, I'd be, if I would waste my money like that.
@@Bluestrecords so get your money up 💀
@@hazzurs you don’t add value
@@patty109109 ur mother
I have a friend in Japan who got to try it and he said it's really delicious and like a mega strawberry. Farmer must be the luckiest guy to snack on them whenever he wants.
I think the farmer prefers to sell it for 350 pounds lol.
Rich ppl have money to use. And more money to use again. Thats why
Source : trust me bro my friend told me
Wonder how much a smoothie with them is
I generally don't watch anything with celebrity tv chefs but decided to watch this and thoroughly enjoyed the whole show. If it had been Gordon Firkin Ramsay though I wouldn't have bothered!
Most farmers like to grow big and flavourless strawberries because that gets them more money. They could grow smaller and much tastier strawberries if they wanted to, but they just choose not to do it, as people buy them anyway.
Usually if a strawberry smells like nothing, then it tastes like nothing. Good strawberries have a really strong strawberry-smell.
Common what the f...k is this.The man selling them is not crazy, but the people buying them for sure are.
If people are willing to pay, let them.
Strawberry’s from supermarkets are absolutely tasteless. There is a market stall in the Center of Cardiff that often sells a box for £1 at the end of each day. They are the best!
Wexford strawberries in Ireland are top notch
According to the SBY (Strawberry) to GBP (Great British Pound) Converter, it is now only worth £274.
Oz of good grass or 1 Strawberry.
Madness...
The sweetest juiciest strawberry I tasted was from Belgium. Haven’t found any that sweet since.
I can tell you. I’m from a small town in Belgium and there’s a strawberry farm couple mins from my place. You can buy half a kilo for 5 euros and the strawberries look like the 350 pound one. And they taste very sweet.
@@peter-xw1mu Hi from the U.K.!
I’m not even joking UK strawberries are so bitter I’ve stopped using them in desserts, I found this small fruit shop at a farm and they were selling strawberries, they were huge deep red strawberries, they tasted like heaven, the thing that shocked me was their sweetness, I sat and ate the lot with no sugar and no cream, they were from Belgium, I went back for more but they had been sold and I haven’t found them since.
@@ventibreeze6648 I'm from the UK also and have always believed i hated Strawberries. Reading these comments make me believe i've just been eating shite strawberries.
Berry berry good! I would buy one just for the taste of it. Forget stupid name brand crap, life is about experiences like these that can't be owned by anyone else.
Really fun
ilov ths
I don't think I would spend that much on a strawberry even if I was a billionaire.
What should I do if my strawberry bush is purple?
Adorabillllllllll și la cumpărături de căpșuni in Romania sunt mai ieftine și naturale
I am so pleased he can afford it!
how much do you value a memory?
that's just answered why these are worth the money....
you'll never forget eating that!!!
Preferable to caviar❤ !!
I think there’s a whole luxury fruit market in Japan where these prices are somewhat normal. Apparently a lot of effort and genetic tweaking goes into growing the fruit. It wouldn’t be aimed at most people. I could not afford one of those fruits anyway, but I find that my local supermarket strawberries are just fine and absolutely delicious. If I really want to splash the cash, I’ll get some from m&s😂
The whole reason theses market's exist is expensive gifts for executives, most of the fruit is thrown away as it is not really that good tasting to begin with. It is all about the extravagance. You can find many youtubers trying these products and being disappointed.
@@TheBaldr Indeed this is all driven by a tradition that got intertwined into a toxic capitalistic and materialistic version of it.
As soon as the camera crew left, they packed them all up and took them back to the farmer's market
As an Italian, I was raised on the notion that when it came to anything related to food ingredients (and many other things😂), we were competing with the French for who was making the finest on the planet. But truthfully, time and time again I am stunned by the sheer perfection of everything I see coming out of that magical island of Japan. And to think, just how far up they are in the Northern Hemisphere (at least France and Italy are on the Mediterranean with a lot more sun if still in the North)!!! They’re not supposed to grow good fruit😂
They're basically Africans
@@jamesjameson4566 What do you mean? I don’t understand.
@@Tennisisreallyfun African people have this attention to detail and dedication to the highest level
@@jamesjameson4566 Ah, now I understand. That’s true, their tribal crafts represent an incredible level of skill, detail, dedication, and discipline to achieve perfection. And even some of their food stuffs such as spices, coffee, etc… However, I must say, for fruit cultivation, I have never seen a near-scientific level of perfection such as this! This is amazing!
@@Tennisisreallyfun they are amizing technicians in all fields, the world owes then a debt.
Imagine how many strawberries you can grow with that kind of money.
Right, I'm quitting my job and opening a fruit stall in Japan
He probably injects them with sugar,😂
They won't be serving those at Wimbledon.
He mugged you right off that was from TESCO
I'm glad the seller told him to eat the stalk because I knew it was not toxic and at that price, not a single morsel should be left. I would have taken smaller bites for an extended eating experience.
I can get more strawberries in the store and just put one For a price 😂LMAO
I always hope to see that when a "westerner" goes to these places they show the utmost respect and I feel Paul did that here. Shocked at the price without coming off as insulting.
It's obviously overpriced. Any food that costs that much would be overpriced. But two things can be true at the same time; if it is in fact the best strawberry on the market, and people do buy it, why not raise the prices?
I wonder if he's ever made a jam with these
Oh and then he would be selling them for 5000k a jar.😁
loving the accent of Mr.Paul😂
STRAWBERRYis red,defo a red Ferrari
LEEK is green,Aston Martin is green.said another Japanese leek farmer who went on the telly 🤣
And i think £5 is too much for a small box 😂
gave him the ol foreigner price