I found some lamb in a supermarket the other day on my way home from work, and had a moment of excitement and joy. Lamb! It's so hard to find lamb here. Great, I thought, I'll have lamb for dinner.
Then I saw the price.
100 grams for 1000 yen.
(For my American readers, that's 0.220462262 pounds for 9.21022 USD.)
I had spaghetti for dinner.
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4 comments:
Here in Hokkaido it's not so pricey, "gingiskhan" is the famous local dish after all...
I'm sure I've seen it cheaper here, too, although not recently in the supermarkets. But I quite often go to a Persian restaurant where they serve lamb, and it's not expensive. I have no idea why this particular lamb was so expensive - or who would be silly enough to pay that much for it.
Funny you should mention it- I love lamb but never buy it, until last week they had a special at my supermarket - $1.99/lb. I'll pack some on dry-ice and FedEx it to ya.
Mmm. Roast lamb...thank god for sukiyaki:)
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