The Georgetown Metropolitan (GM) spotted the $999 price tag below at the Social Safeway and reports: "That’s not a typo. At least GM doesn’t think so. What you see there is a locked case of truffles in the Safeway produce section selling for $999.99 per pound.
GM did a quick run through of the store to see if anything came close to this in terms of price. Only a few bottles of wine and champagne topped the multi-hundred dollar range, but nothing close to this.
Real truffles (unlike their chocolate counterparties) are a type of fungus found in the ground. Traditionally, pigs have been used to find the truffles. Despite this, people seem to like them. Or, at the very least, pay a ton of money for them.
That’s about the extent of GM’s knowledge of truffles. For those with more expensive tastes than he, would you really pay a cool grand a pound for truffles from Safeway?"
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I assume this is a bit of window-dressing on Safeway's part, good for its "fancy" new image (would that their fresh meats for sandwiches were so fancy!). I'll bet it would take many inquiries even to locate a person who has the key to that container. Those truffles are just going to sit there until they begin to rot--they don't last forever, or even very long, as I have learned the hard way. But the rice they're sitting in will be permeated with their fragrance and will be divine!
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