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- 60 minutes didn't do their homework or they would have learned the Urbani was convicted of fraud. And Ms. Urbani was the one who encouraged the Chinese to sell their truffles. Plus the truffle production has be down for decades but that's another story.
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- Let the clueless fools spin and prance over expensive fetishes and wild fungi that look like fuzzy livestock turds. In the meantime, I will soon retire to half a million dollars in AAA funds, general obligation bond portfolios and Mercury accounts amassed by 32 years of driving used, cheap cars, packing brown bag lunches and doing quiet side work. Then I will move to Belize, the Dominican Republic or Costa Rica where I can feed the tropical birds from my porch, wear light linens and Panama hats all year, consume cigars and seafood that are forbidden by law in the U.S. and drink daiquiris as I absolutely, positively refuse to speak English and acknowledge all solicitations and proposals that are made to me.
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- Facinating segment.
It would be great to have another segment that hits a little closer to home such as the issue with Chinese Honey being illegally imported into the US through other countries to avoid the tarrifs, and some of the chemicals found in some of the chinese honey imports. - Reply to this comment
- wow how lame are the folks who admin this page, deleting my past posts. freedom of expression is to much for you people at CBS? So Sad
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- For decades, American wine makers have been mocked and sneered at by their counterparts in Europe. Aside from the unique soil, water and climate where grapes are being raised in Europe, American wine industry has vastly adopted new technology and modern science and engineered its wines to meet the market taste. The reality is, no matter how good the old world claims it's wines are they are losing ground while wines from the new world, i.e. U.S., Australia and New Zealand and South America are steadily gaining market share. I can't afford to buy a dish with truffles so I don't know how it tastes like. But I wonder if the difference between inferior Chinese truffles and their superior French or Italian cousins is as big as claimed in the program, or if the superiority is actually a mixture of distinctive quality, prestige, arrogance and exertive influence from so-called experts? Had a blind taste testing being done, can ordinary people like me tell the difference? In today's media, anything from China must be bad. If it is true, then I must be a bad human being, because I come from China too.
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- But how nutritious are they? Are they considered a super food like blueberries?
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- I arrived home after my Occupy Olympia (Washington State) meeting just in time to watch 60 Minutes. The Truffle Story? You have to be kidding. Talk about the lifestyles of the 1%. I can really identify with people who fly a helicopter to go have lunch at their favorite restaurant. Who spend $150 just to buy a hamburger. In Washington State a single person who receives food stamps get $150 per month. Try to eat well off of $5 a day. Is there any wonder there is a Occupy Movement.
Part of the 99% and long time 60 Minutes viewer. - Reply to this comment
- "European white truffles can sell for as much as $3,600 a pound, making them and their fellow fungi the most expensive food in the world."
Nonsense. The price of truffles is dwarfed by the cost of the spice saffron at up to $5000+ US dollars a pound depending upon supply.
Saffron is the reproductive parts of a certain breed of flowering crocus and must be gathered by hand, one tiny thread at a time. 90% of the world's saffron production comes out of Iran. - Reply to this comment
- Wow, just check out the photograph for this story! Someone in the background of the photo is standing, wearing a full-length fur coat. Oh, those glorious 1%ers! Have they no shame?
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- I'm pretty sure saffron is far more expensive than truffles. Yes, saffron is technically a spice, but if you are quibbling over definitions, food is defined as "any nutritious substance that people or animals eat or drink, or that plants absorb, in order to maintain life and growth". Good saffron (from Kashmir) sells for $120 for 1/4 ounce. Which equals $7680 a pound, twice the price of stinking French mushrooms. Fortunately, you only need a tiny bit of saffron. Anyone who has ever smelled saffron's fragrance knows that it is certainly worth it.
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