[Dane]

Poor little France. Australia just seems to be better than they are at everything these days, even growing truffles.

Do the Aussies use pigs to find the truffles?

To lurkers, yes pigs are used because of their superior olfactory sense to sniff out the truffles. The pictures of are kinda of funny seeing truffle hunters with a pig on a leash searching for the black gold. The handler usually has some corn on hand to distract the pig so that the pig doesn't eat the truffle.

[xJones]

The pictures of are kinda of funny seeing truffle hunters with a pig on a leash searching for the black gold.

The traditinoal French truffle hunt season must be really exciting. Does the master of the local truffle hunt cry the French version of "Tally Ho!" as the pigs are set loose to snuff out the stationary fungi?:)

[general_re]

Actually, I think a lot of them have switched to dogs these days, as dogs are less likely to eat the truffles ;)