This is what nine United States dollars worth of Feijoas looks like:
The New Zealanders reading this will be rubbing their eyes and thinking there's some mistake. Oooh no my friends, this is what you get for nine big greenbacks on the feijoa market.
The mathematicians will be hurryingly calculating that three feijoas totalling nine dollars makes them three US dollars each. Aren't they just some smart little cookies. Good for you. Have a feijoa... wait, no, they're far too expensive, have a cookie instead.
So.. you want to hear the story, don't you. What am I saying, of course you do.
Well, in a way not too dissimilar to the $15 of pinenuts story, I was in the supermarket today and saw Feijoas. WOW! OMG Feijoas! I must have! I must must have! Now there wasn't a pricetag, and I figured they'd be a little expensive, but they're feijoas! It wasn't til after I'd already paid, thinking to myself 'Gosh that's a lot for some grapes, four bananas and three feijoas...' that I realised the feijoas were $2.99 each. US dollars. Each.
Now, in New Zealand, every property has a feijoa tree in their backyard. Not that that's a rule or anything, they just grow without any provocation and there really isn't any stopping them. And they all fruit. Religiously. In abundance. Every year. It gets to the point where you can't even give the fruit away, the best you can do is make seventy two very large jars of chutney and consider the remaining fruit left rotting on the ground as fertiliser for the tree to fruit again next year (yes, it's a wonderfully vicious cycle). Anyway, that's not the case here. At all.
So I think I'm going to get my dad to export the fruit from his tree to here in the US. He'll make a killing. And my three feijoas, which are three very good examples of the fruit in it's unripened form (I find, after cutting one in half - whoops there goes three dollars) are from Chile.
I must learn to read the price tags.
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