đ Why Are Truffles So Expensive?
Morning, mushroom head! đ
Itâs Sunday date night.
Youâre out with a baddie (solid 9 according to the boys).
Where?
Well, her Hinge said :
So thereâs an obvious moveâŠbut your Mom raised you rightâŠso you drive right by that Olive Garden and take her to the finest Italian restaurant.
Time to impress.
You order two of the priciest Wagyu risottos.
RiskyâŠespecially since payday isnât until Thursday and your Groupon isnât valid on weekends.
But youâre investing in your offspring â so buon appetito.
Wait, stop!
Youâre exuding an air of weakness.
And the waiter senses itâŠ.
Ciao bella!
See truffles have been bankrupting simps since the Middle Ages.
âCause theyâre stupid expensiveâŠthis one on a pillow sold for $61,250.
But why?
Well, imagine youâre walking through a forest.
And, actually, youâre a big fat piggy.
Good.
So youâre just going about your day.
When all of a sudden, you smell something insanely strong. So you start digging ferociously.
You uncover a MASSIVE tree root system.
But wait itâs also FULL of mushrooms.
Itâs the coveted Tuber melanosporum â a black truffle.
See these truffles grow on trees just like applesâŠbut underground.
Oh and they got these:
A giant web of little stringy things â called mycelium.
The truffleâs mycelium pull in water and nutrients from the ground. Which the truffle trades with the tree for sugar.
Itâs natureâs capitalism đ°
But why are truffles so expensive?
Theyâre RARE.
Well, not truffle oilâŠthatâs fake oil made in the lab to smell like truffles.
Real truffles only grow a few months a year and spoil immediately â 5 days after cutting and their smell is 50% gone.
Thatâs why we use truffle sniffing pigs to find em.
The only problem?
These pigs also tend to immediately eat the truffles they find.
So now itâs a job best left to trained dogs.
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Henry & Dylan đ
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