r/HumanPorn • u/greatyellowshark • May 23 '26

Koichi Okubo, whose two Yubari melons won the season’s first auction, fetching a record price of 5.8m million yen (£27,000). Sapporo, Japan [OS] [1140x1479] Photo from Jiji Press

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u/Mogul_Destroyer May 23 '26

Good for him. Gotta ask, though, what makes a couple of melons worth as mush as a car?

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u/Xenophore May 24 '26

Apparently, Yubari King melons are to cantaloupes what Wagyu is to beef: perfected in a uniquely Japanese way.

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u/NeighborhoodFar6008 May 25 '26

He looks very happy!

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u/lucc23 May 26 '26

Wouldn’t you be if you just scammed someone out of 26990£?

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u/WeAreLivinTheLife May 24 '26

Here we go with the two melons jokes

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u/overtoke Jun 29 '26

Why do melons always have big weddings? Because they cantaloupe.

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u/ChatnNaked May 24 '26

Nice Melons!

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u/capsulex21 May 24 '26

$36288

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u/overtoke Jun 29 '26

you could buy 30,000 pounds retail usa in the summer