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Old Jul 2, 2012 | 7:49 pm
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Originally Posted by DJGMaster1
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).
Saw that. Why don't the Chinese let some ripen then? Rather have $1 today than $50 in a year?
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