Are truffles a scam or are they really that good?
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Are truffles a scam or are they really that good?
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Nigga, it's just a mushroom. Just like with cavier, it's just fish eggs. Just another marketing ploy from the French Jews to make more money out of their mediocre food.
Nothing in modern times has ever been priced based on how good it is. Truffles are only expensive because of the convoluted harvesting method.
>truffles are mushrooms.
Dumb cunt.
They are good as fuck, hard to find, have a limited season, and cannot be cultivated...
Is the price a bit excessive?
Yeah probably, but having them on special occasions is worth it imo
It isn't marketing, its scarcity. When something delicious is only available in very limited quantity it becomes a luxury good, because its price reflects its scarcity, not how good it actually is.
So if you're a price sensitive customer truffles will seem like a scam, because they're very expensive and unlikely to seem worth the money to you. That doesn't alter the fact that they are delicious, and many with the disposable income to enjoy luxury goods look forward to truffle season.
Nice troll!
I bought black truffles once, just to try them. I had them with scrambled eggs and then risotto.
The taste was underwhelming and not worth the price IMO, but the smell of the truffles themselves was incredible. If you could carry them in a box for a long period of time (without them going bad) and just smell them throughout the day they would be awesome.
The aroma is really quite impressive. It's not a "good smell" by most standards, but it is very heady and unique. Very difficult to describe, and synthetic truffle oil doesn't do the real thing justice.
why the fuck don't we just like
plant truffles
and shit
I was leading an LRS patrol on a training mission in Fort Lewis Washington and McChord AFB. We dug out observation hides. My Senior Scout uncovered a truffle the size of an apple. Everyone had truffles on their MREs for the week.