Who needs French truffles...

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...when there are ones from Namibia?

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 15 May 2006 18:37 (nineteen years ago)

"It resembles nothing so much as a lump of desiccated donkey dung."

*yum yum*

― Lara (Lara), Monday, 15 May 2006 19:29 (nineteen years ago)

Better than truffle truffles? Chocolate truffles. (I have a hard time getting excited about fungus...)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:05 (nineteen years ago)

fungus truffles 1000 x > chocolate truffles

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:14 (nineteen years ago)

Wait, are you saying they are 1000x bigger? Cuz that is scaring me a little.

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Monday, 15 May 2006 20:44 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I guess they would be if you had a very small chocolate truffle. But they are certainly 1000 x GREATER THAN chocolate truffles.

I used to rule in favor of chocolate truffles until I smelled a fungus truffle. I'm still not sure they really have any taste or whether it's your nose doing all the work, but I know I like them.

― Brian Miller (Brian Miller), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 00:46 (nineteen years ago)

apparently china has some pretty good and cheap truffles too

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 01:01 (nineteen years ago)

i'm interested in this food that is more for the nose than the mouth (and not to be confused with candy. for nose and/or mouth.) That i haven't ever tried truffles makes me feel, well, low class, like all the high-grade sushi i've eaten in my life is still not enough to make up for it. it isn't. are they worth all the fuss made over them? are they worth my want and need? b/c i think i want and need truffles. i also want and need expensive wine. not all the time, but once in a while.

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oh, i also want to go to china!

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 01:06 (nineteen years ago)

i dunno really, ive never had truffles either. just stuff with truffle oil, but i couldn't tell you what it tasted like. foie gras i finally tasted and boy is it yummy.

― phil-two (phil-two), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 01:08 (nineteen years ago)

I suppose I'll have to take your word for the greatness of the fungus truffles for the moment. I'm already addicted to the chocolate kind, as as rrobyn above, also sushi. (China is on my list, too. I visited Japan in 1996 and had a fabulous time - but it was too bad to be so close to China and not visit. We did eat some yummy sushi... no truffles of any sort, though.)

― Sara Robinson-Coolidge (Sara R-C), Tuesday, 16 May 2006 03:10 (nineteen years ago)

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