Now there's a reason to panic about global warming.

Federation Francaise des Trufficulteurs would be a wicked awesome band name.

nope.

umm is green houses set up to grow fungi totally out of the question? i mean for 1500$ a kilo, i would be willing to check into that. for what its worth.

Just as well, gourmet restaurants have been driven to over-trufflize due to the popular conception of truffles-as-delicacy.

Now they'll have to conserve truffles for the best uses possible. No more cocoa-mango truffle popsicles for $45 at L'Idiot.

I'm seeing a lot of asparagus nowadays.

From TFA: A kilo of black truffles can fetch as much as 1,000 euros ($1,548), three times the cost at the end of the 1990s.

So then they are keeping up with the price of gas...

/not a recession

Well that's no fun guy.

darrent83: Am I alone here in not caring?

Then why did you even bother to post? Either:

A.) You actually do care but want people to think you're cool for not caring about the scarcity of truffles

B.) You're an attention whore and want the warm fuzzy feeling of having a bunch of losers agree with your indifference

/The Internet
//Serious business

Since truffles are consumed only by wealthy people, and wealthy people are congenitally evil, I'm ok with this.

Hope the cherries are okay.

Luckily this doesn't concern me.

Poppa Boner: Well that's no fun guy.

I'm not your guy, buddy.

Burn14Me: umm is green houses set up to grow fungi totally out of the question? i mean for 1500$ a kilo, i would be willing to check into that. for what its worth.

You can conceivably grow truffles in a "greenhouse", but the type of people who eat them would balk at the non-natural taste... I have had them and think they are a bit too subtle. I could've done with some sesame oil and been just as satisfied.

Truffles are the new Sylphium.

Witty Handle: Poppa Boner: Well that's no fun guy.

I'm not your guy, buddy.

I'm not your buddy, pal.

Witty Handle: I'm not your guy, buddy.

I'm Buddy Guy, so I'm getting a kick...

So has France surrendered yet?

So since the global temperature trend went down last year more than it has gone up in the last 60 years, this would be a case of not enough "global warming"?

holy shiat, now the Iron Chefs will ahve to find some other form of Unobtanium to grate and put on food to make it outrageously expensive

/Eel farts ftw

Burn14Me: umm is green houses set up to grow fungi totally out of the question? i mean for 1500$ a kilo, i would be willing to check into that. for what its worth.

The EU has a lot of rules regarding food growing and production. The rules are intended to preserve the uniqueness of each country's economy. I would not be surprised if EU countries could not call things truffles without being grown in a certain region under certain natural conditions.

First caviar and now THIS? How am I supposed to distinguish myself by my refined palette anymore? I might as well go shop at Walmart and pump my own gas!

Now they'll have to conserve truffles for the best uses possible. No more cocoa-mango truffle popsicles for $45 at L'Idiot.

Truffles in the dessert sense have nothing to do with this fungus. They are two completely different things....but this is Fark so there is no reason to try to explain the difference. Go look at some pictures of cats or something jackass.

KWPLunchbox: Now they'll have to conserve truffles for the best uses possible. No more cocoa-mango truffle popsicles for $45 at L'Idiot.

Truffles in the dessert sense have nothing to do with this fungus. They are two completely different things....but this is Fark so there is no reason to try to explain the difference. Go look at some pictures of cats or something jackass.

lol

Well at least we have the wonderful contributions of American cuisine to sustain us.

KWPLunchbox: Truffles in the dessert sense have nothing to do with this fungus

Actually in this case it does.
As a frequent dinner at L'Idiot, I know for a fact that Chef Gustavo Gaasatak uses a few drops of truffle oil (an extract from the fungus) plus the dripping of the pituitary gland of aborted late term fetuses to add that extra panache in this delightful treat on a dainty stick.

I have also heard that the price on fetal pituitary gland extract is rising rapidly as well.
*sigh*

Githerax:

I'm seeing a lot of asparagus nowadays.

That might have something to do with the fact that its asparagus SEASON?

______ in the ______ sense have nothing to do with this ______. They are two completely different things....but this is Fark so there is no reason to try to explain the difference. Go look at some pictures of cats or something jackass.


another farking farkism?

By George!

can one of our more truffle-savvy enlighten as to how planting a tree yields an underground fungus

it would seem to me if they are connected to the "trees" in some way then you would not need to use things like little potbellied pigs to find them

I guess this means no more truffula trees.

\poor Lorax

♫ Nobody knows... the truffles I've seen... ♫

Good thing this is an elite, liberal delicacy and the idiots who deny climate change exists can still swill their beer with impunity.

JonnyBGoode: ♫ Nobody knows... the truffles I've seen... ♫

haha

Who needs truffles anyway - stupid fungus, you go squish!

/Ortolan anyone?

Only fungi I'm concerned with.

You hear so much about these things on shows like Iron Chef. I was really excited when I actually had the chance to taste one. After that, I say let the little farkers die. They nasty! Not worth the price at all. At all.

That sucks. I love truffles and cook with them all the time.

Thankfully, there is a guy right here in Tennessee that has figured out how to grow actual Perigord truffles right here at home. So don't give up hope.

Freiheit666: can one of our more truffle-savvy enlighten as to how planting a tree yields an underground fungus

it would seem to me if they are connected to the "trees" in some way then you would not need to use things like little potbellied pigs to find them

They're a mycorrhizal symbiote. The part of the truffle that we eat is a fruiting body like mushroom. The main part of the organism is a cottony mass of threadlike tissues underground that grows directly into the roots of nearby trees. In exchange for a nice steady sugar supply from their buddy, they help supply their host with extra water and minerals by becoming a sort of extended root system. In the case of truffles, the primary hosts are beech, birch, hazelnut, oak and pine trees, so if you plant more of their favorite trees, you'd give the truffle more choices of places in which to grow, at least in theory. They've actually managed to grow them commercialy in some places that have the right soil, temperatures and trees. They're sort of ticky.

The pigs are used to find them because the things grow underground and can usually only be detected by the scent they give off. We can't smell it, but one of the chemicals they give off is a dead-ringer for a pig sex pheremone. Nobody has to train the pigs to find them, because they already go nuts trying to dig them up. But because they DO eat them, most people who hunt them nowadays use dogs, which have to be trained because the dogs don't care about them one way or another, but can at least find them and DON'T try to eat them.

It's best to use an animal of some sort to find them regardless of which kind one uses, because the animals can tell a truffle from other fungi by scent alone, and there are poisonous fungi that live in the same environment. Sometimes a poisonous amanita mushroom button can look a little like a truffle before it breaks the surface. If the pig won't eat them, you don't want them either.

/Not a truffle hunter
//but I stayed at a Holiday Inn last night

Thought there was a chocolate shortage or something and got worried. Let the fungus die.

Your alarmist alliteration always allays amelioration about actualities.

To add just a bit to Smirky...'s good comment, you can tell by looking at a tree whether you're likely to find truffles under it. The ground around the trunk is pretty much bare. It's called "le brûlé", which means the burnt area. A certain kind of small green fly is attracted to the area, too. The idea of having an animal dig up the truffle itself is because the fruiting body seems to develop any old place, and we're talking fair-sized trees.

NSA Red Flag Brigade: Only fungi I'm concerned with.

those look like common's

/amirite?

They can still surrender without truffles. What's the big damn deal?

Githerax: I'm seeing a lot of asparagus nowadays.

Perhaps you should quit mushrooms then.

/IYKWIM *winkwink*

Too bad they won't grow in New York State. I'd love to be able to sing about truffling of to Buffalo.

Now if they were having a shortage of shiitakes or portabellos, I'd complain.

I'm sure it can't be due to the fact that they're being over- harvested.

Next thing you now they'll be claiming there's a shortage of canaries in the coal mines.