November 14, 2006

The $160,406 truffle!

Will it be eaten or just displayed? Eaten!
Posted by Ann Althouse at 10:18 AM

7 comments:

altoids1306 said...

That story captures the essence of the Cantonese attitude to food.

11/14/06, 11:05 AM
al said...

Just think - they could have spend an hour with Paris Hilton instead...

WP - more garlic is a good thing.

11/14/06, 11:31 AM
Anonymous said...

Pretty huge dichotomy between Mr. Wu and the villagers of "Mud".

11/14/06, 11:35 AM
Ruth Anne Adams said...

Roger A: I bet he'll turnover in his grave.

11/14/06, 2:02 PM
bearbee said...

The Pillsbury company recently announced the death of their long time advertising icon, the Pillsbury doughboy, who died of a terminal yeast infection after being poked in the stomach too many times.

Stop.....you guys are making me laugh. The death of of P.doughboy is a tragedy.........any one collecting some bread for a flour arrangement....... or is that being too tacky?

11/14/06, 4:23 PM
Ruth Anne Adams said...

I wonder if there's an expiration date stamped on his coffin?

11/14/06, 6:24 PM
Revenant said...

No matter how rich I get, I can't picture spending more than a hundred bucks on a dinner -- let alone a couple hundred bucks just for some truffle shavings.

The wikipedia article on truffles is pretty interesting. Apparently there's an untapped market in truffle cultivation at the moment -- demand outstrips supply by a factor of 50.

11/15/06, 1:50 AM

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