Pictures of the day: 1 December 2008 – Telegraph This 1.08 KG white truffle sold for $200,000. It will be showcased at some restaurant then eaten soon… eaten in thin expensive slices.
Found by Alex Wasowicz.
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Yeah, well it still looks like something my dog yakked up last night….enjoy!
I like em on pizza.
I was out truffling this last weekend. Found maybe a 1/4 pound of Tuber oregonense.
Fun stuff…
Hey, now there’s a great idea. Pay $200/gram for something that tastes like athlete’s foot! Brilliant!!
Sheesh, for less $200 I can get an eight-ball, and that’s got THREE POINT FIVE grams.
No wonder we’re in a recession. Eating fungus. Bah.
I think I see an image of Jesus in that truffle!
#3 “…of Tuber oregonense.”
You should have a doctor take a look at that for treatment STAT. I hear it can be fatal…
Ay that size I would think it would not be fit to eat.
A might bit woody I should think.
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#6 I do… I often consult with Ph.D James and Matt Trappe, Who are probably Americas foremost experts on Truffles.
#7 You might think so, but its not going to be woody at all. Ever had a old potato that was woody? Similar principle. Only its not a root its a fruiting body.
Here’s a fun website for those who are interested in truffles.
http://www.natruffling.org
#4. They smell like the insides of a rotten tree. Bad feet however smell like bad cheese, inside a rotten tree.
#9 – sargasso
Well, if I want to eat something that smells like shit, I’ll opt for 1000-year-old-eggs. They stink to high heaven, and they cost a lot less than $200/gram.
The best way to describe them is simple: Turd shaped, cunt smelling and dirt tasting.
#10
That’s because 1,000yo eggs are used as a seasoning for rice congee.
Mustard,
I’ll have you know that some of the best 4-8 hours of my life were on fungus…
As for food, truffles are amazing. I can’t believe the cost, but at the same time, when you have to either a) fight a pig for them, b) train a dog for YEARS to find them, or c) poke tree roots for a particular flies in snake infested territory to get them, it’s sometimes better to pay someone else to do all the work. In fact, truffles may be the cutting edge of the “service” economy!
#12 – Named
Yeah, I agree that fungus can add greatly to one’s quality of life (but not in Amsterdam any more, apparently). But at $200/gram? Pffft.
And if you could just pick one up and take a bite out of it, that would be one thing. But sprinkled sparingly on a salad? Buried in an omelette? At two hundred dollars a gram? NFW.
The few times I’ve had them (on somebody else’s dime), I wasn’t bowled over by the flavor, and there was so little of the stuff, I’m not sure it made any difference (other than to those that are impressed by expensive food purely because it’s expensive).
For $200/gram, the shit better be 90% psilocybin, or I’m not interested.
I went to the bank last week and took out a loan to buy a truffle. The loan officer set me up with an option-ARM truffle loan with nothing but the truffle as collateral, so I’m sure it’s a sound investment.
It would really be a shame if this were a truffle bubble and prices started dropping.
… eaten in thin expensive slices.
… by executives at bailed-out financial firms at their next spa day
14,
Nope, that’s tulip bulbs.
This is really pushing the logic that anything sold by the gram is more fun that anything sold by the pound.
lol i well not buy that truffle it tast like durt dont ask why! why do they want to eat it anyway? i can get atlest more toys and computer a home for a FUNGI LoLz. its a bad idea to buy a truffle thats over priced..! i hop you wont =) ♂♀ ▣_▣™۩dont copy me./*