{"id":13913,"date":"2025-07-05T11:17:21","date_gmt":"2025-07-05T18:17:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=13913"},"modified":"2025-07-17T11:20:04","modified_gmt":"2025-07-17T18:20:04","slug":"those-are-some-real-nice-melons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2025\/07\/05\/those-are-some-real-nice-melons\/","title":{"rendered":"Those are some real nice melons."},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/04\/nyregion\/hamptons-grocery-prices.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"link-1569f5e7\">Move Over, $100 Lobster Salad. In the Hamptons, These Melons Cost $400.<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Gourmet grocery stores are upping their game in the Hamptons, serving a welcoming wealthy clientele.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>By\u00a0<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/by\/dionne-searcey\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Dionne Searcey<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/static01.nyt.com\/images\/2025\/07\/03\/multimedia\/met-hamptons-grocery-war--03-lbmf\/met-hamptons-grocery-war--03-lbmf-superJumbo.jpg?quality=75&amp;auto=webp\" alt=\"\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\"><em>Ashley Gilbertson for The New York Times<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It wasn\u2019t even 8:30 on a recent morning when a shopper emptied his basket of dinner ingredients onto the counter of the Farm &amp; Forage Market in Southampton: two king crab legs, two bags of frozen dumplings, two packages of ramen noodles and a bag of dried sea kelp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cash register rang up an already eye-popping tally before the customer realized he had forgotten the caviar. He tossed a jar of it onto the counter. The grand total was $1,860.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI\u2019ll put that on your tab, right?\u201d asked Jonathan Bernard, owner of the tiny, tidy store. The shopper, a private chef who works in a home nearby, nodded and noted he would be back later for truffles.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2025\/07\/04\/nyregion\/hamptons-grocery-prices.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at NYT<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The New York Times Move Over, $100 Lobster Salad. In the Hamptons, These Melons Cost $400. Gourmet grocery stores are upping their game in the Hamptons, serving a welcoming wealthy clientele. By\u00a0Dionne Searcey It wasn\u2019t even 8:30 on a recent morning when a shopper emptied his basket of dinner ingredients onto the counter of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"off","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13913","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13913"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13913\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}