You're supposed to eat a Christmas cake on Christmas Eve in Japan. It's usually a white cake with white frosting and strawberries (they're considered to be a winter fruit and grown almost exclusively in green houses). Most shops let you reserve a cake as early as October. In fact, none of these cakes above are for sale. They're just waiting to be picked up. A cheap cake would cost about 2500 yen, but a normal priced cake is 3000-4000 yen (and you can spend a ridiculous amount if you're so inclined). Most Japanese are quite surprised to find that Americans don't partake in the same tradition.
So if I did my math right, which there's no doubt that I did, these cakes cost $250,000 American dollars.
ReplyDeleteI gotta say, I'd spend that on a Vespa or some kind of double chainsaw nunchucks
Your math is off, a yen is the Japanese equivalent to a penny. So in america we have dollar stores, in japan they have 100 yen stores. So that means these cakes sell for $25-40.
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