Truffle Brings $200K - Neatorama

That's one expensive chunk of fungus! A 1.08 kilogram white truffle was sold at an auction Saturday for $200,000. A total of $284,000 was raised for charity at the auction held simultaneously in Abu Dhabi, Macau, London and Rome.

Macau casino mogul Stanley Ho was the highest bidder for the 1.08-kg white truffle. The tycoon was also the highest bidder for last year’s largest truffle, a 1.5-kg piece that fetched a record $330,000.

Truffle is a precious ingredient in Italian and French gourmet for its pungent aroma and taste. White truffle is considered the best truffle; a kilogram of normal size white truffle could cost over $5000.

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I'm in the wrong business.

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Time for the truffle shuffle!

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Hey, as long as that money is going to charity I don't care if they bid on a golden toilet to eat off of.

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nothing like an overly expensive fungus...

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I live in a black truffle production area : last saturday one of my customer showed me one as big as a fist! And that smell, oh my!

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So disapointed..
I'm expecting now the biggest STRUCTURAL gingerbread house. Anybody can slap a couple of slices on a wall, but building a real house with gingerbread is left to be seen. That woudl be a structural challenge...

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i wonder if they let anybody have a piece of it when they were done

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i agree with bob i want to see a structual gingerbread house

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ya i also agree with bob you did not even get to see the hole thing wast of internet time

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I sure would like a piece of that house... but it probably is all moldy and rotten now since it's 2009 and almost 2010.

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Whats wrong with you guys. Yeah it would be awesome to see a STRUCTURAL gingerbread house. But this is just as hard to build. Your disappointed, your one of those critics that don't know anything, a writer, not an acual builder. I'l like to see you do this. You won't even last a second, won't even know what to make the door out of. So keep your comments to yourself....psh disappointed, I should smack you across the face for saying that.

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^^^^^^^^
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Thats who booby jones is. What are you gonna do?

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big but not bigger then my house

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