Ripoff prices mushrooming

This beggars belief. Brace yourself. We recommend you to be horizontal with a wet towel to cool your brow before you read this.

OK, then.

Delicacies are supposed to be, er, delicious, but does the price warrant a loan for a Mercedes?

Take this little beauty, for example.

A mushroom. Yes, a mushroom.

Tastfully boxed in a nice little cardboard box. It might not be made of gold or even goldleafed, but it does have a whole bunch of chopped up fern around it for maximum ‘just-been-plucked -from-the-woods’ effect.

We think you might like it. Enough to tickle your purchase fancy.

A mere snip at 3,500 yen. Oh, and it’s on special today, 30% off. Quick, make a beeline before they all sell out.