Originally Posted by
BostonFlyer1624
Big difference between truffles (of the mushroom variety) and truffles (of the sugar variety).
I like both the fungus type (esp. white) and the chocolate type (esp. dark).
60 Minutes just re-ran an episode on how the Chinese are ruining the market by flooding it with cheap truffles that are far inferior because they are not allowed to ripen in the ground and develop the complex aromas that the Italian and French ones do (and as a result, sell for 50x as much).