$100,000 a pound, it better be good

A world-record white truffle was auctioned today for $330,000.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22057756/?GT1=10645

Just for comparison, at today's prices, gold costs around $13,000 a pound.

caw

RLB said:

We had the pleasure of being in Tuscany a couple of years ago during peak truffle season. People had little scales they'd use to weigh out truffle shavings like cocaine. They are good. I don't know about $13000/lb good though.

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Actually, the $13000 figure was for gold. If you do the math, as the thread title was designed to indicate, it works out to $100,000 a pound for that fungus.

caw

RLB said:

Ah. Well, that seems fair. You can't eat gold, after all.

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Actually, you can. It has no nutritional value, but flakes of gold leaf are used as decadent edible embellishments at some of the world's most expensive restaurants. Gold is chemically inert, and will just kind of go right on through, unaltered. Kind of like the cheese they used to give us in rations when I was in the Army.

caw