Truffles in a high-end grocery store

    by jamesmaxx

    35 Comments

    1. It looks expensive at first glance, but remember you’re getting some free rice as well.

    2. This is from my hometown Palm Beach Gardens unless there is more than one Carmines. This place is always packed with people willing to pay way too much for groceries, esp in snowbird season. Has a trattoria next door also, you can buy some pretty good slices from it at this market, one of the better spots for pizza if you can deal with the crowds.

    3. Seems like an extremely vulnerable way to stock a product that costs over a thousand dollars. Are there armed guards just out of view or something?

    4. I walked into a fancy spot like that in Manhattan once and saw fresh black truffles just sitting out like produce with a tiny sign saying $800 a pound which felt insane for something that looks like dirty rocks. Ended up buying a small one anyway to shave over pasta at home and yeah it elevated the whole dish but I still question if it was worth skipping a few dinners out. Places in rich areas pull this off because people drop cash without blinking.

    5. The thing with truffles is that the flavour starts to decay the moment it is harvested. After 3 to 5 days the flavour already halved. Any older than that and it will taste weak. 

      You will never find anything as fresh as what the restaurants get and shouldn’t be buying from shops unless you trust the truffles were harvested a day or 2 ago and you are using it that night. 

      Also, personal opinion, truffles are overrated. 

    6. Had some spaghetti & truffle (on my company) a few years ago, couldn’t tell you what the truffle did lol

    7. I don’t know. I mean i’ll put my phone into a bag of rice to fix it, but how could a truffle be broken?

    8. Too_Relaxed_To_Care on

      That shit is begging to get stolen. I needed cheap work socks so I went to Walmart and they had that shit under lock and key, but this is just sitting there…

    9. I swear to God these truffles better be goddamn euphoria inducing at these prices. Easier to just buy crack at that point.

    10. I’ve never eaten a truffle but there’s no way it can be worth that price. This is conspicuous consumption.

    11. Thanks for posting this. Been trying to tell my dog she needs to learn to sniff out truffles and she has always ignored me…maybe once I show her this pic and she sees how many balls and treats she could get for one truffle she’ll come around…

    12. Wow, what happens if they still have it in stock on the expiration date? Do they mark it down, or toss it, or maybe just use it in the truffle potato salad at the deli?

    13. Competitive_Name4991 on

      So, it’s worth $600 until the due date, then it’s got to be thrown out right? Strange how a couple days can be a difference of $600!

    14. Isn’t the shelf life of white truffles like 7 days? Thats pissing hundreds of dollars away for what

    15. A two week shelf life on those things? They’ve got to be throwing away a fortune constantly.

      Also, how are razors behind locked glass but these just sit on a shelf?

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