The snob value of the truffle, the rare, delicate-tasting fungi so beloved of chefs, has hit new heights in London with a single specimen selling for 110,000 dollars. The world record price was paid at auction by an unnamed buyer in Hong Kong for a rare white Alba truffle, picture, a sort found only in Piedmont, Italy, for two months of the year(AFP/Giuseppe Cacace)
Mania-wise, tulips are a lot prettier. But then, so is San Diego real estate.
Ok, How about 'roo stoo instead ;-?
The manager of an Australian kangaroo meat supplier, displays packets of kangaroo meat in 1999. Australia has launched a competition to find a new way of describing kangaroo meat which will be less offensive to diners sensitive about eating the national symbol(AFP/File/Torsten Blackwood)
I'd rather have a whole heap of morels. They're free if you know where to find them.
Who gives a rat's hindquarters? Who gives a rat's hindquarters about the price of caviar? If some clown wants to pay $55,000 a pound for mold,more power to him.