<story><title>The truffle industry is a scam</title><url>https://www.tasteatlas.com/truffle-industry-is-a-big-scam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Fiahil</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m French and I live in France. Here, most of our truffles are real truffle.&lt;p&gt;We do get some Tuber aestivum as well, but that&amp;#x27;s alright because they&amp;#x27;re displayed as &amp;quot;truffe d&amp;#x27;été&amp;quot;. No harm done.&lt;p&gt;As the article said, the &amp;quot;truffle flavour&amp;quot; has nothing to do with the real stuff, and outside of France, Italy and Spain, you probably won&amp;#x27;t get them on the market. You might be lucky in some restaurants all over Europe. But everywhere else it&amp;#x27;s propably not the &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; black truffle. Especially, if they put some in ketchup...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>bambax</author><text>Yeah I&amp;#x27;m French too and second that. But also, I wasn&amp;#x27;t aware before reading this article that there was such a hype around truffles in the rest of the world? Why is everyone offering truffle-this and truffle-that? In France in my experience truffle dishes are quite rare and done in specialized restaurants. There are certainly counter-examples, but I don&amp;#x27;t think you can find many truffle-flavored pizzas in Paris for example.</text></comment>
<story><title>The truffle industry is a scam</title><url>https://www.tasteatlas.com/truffle-industry-is-a-big-scam</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Fiahil</author><text>I&amp;#x27;m French and I live in France. Here, most of our truffles are real truffle.&lt;p&gt;We do get some Tuber aestivum as well, but that&amp;#x27;s alright because they&amp;#x27;re displayed as &amp;quot;truffe d&amp;#x27;été&amp;quot;. No harm done.&lt;p&gt;As the article said, the &amp;quot;truffle flavour&amp;quot; has nothing to do with the real stuff, and outside of France, Italy and Spain, you probably won&amp;#x27;t get them on the market. You might be lucky in some restaurants all over Europe. But everywhere else it&amp;#x27;s propably not the &amp;quot;real&amp;quot; black truffle. Especially, if they put some in ketchup...</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>coldtea</author><text>&amp;gt;&lt;i&gt;I&amp;#x27;m French and I live in France. Here, most of our truffles are real truffle.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;In Michelin star restaurants maybe. Else, you&amp;#x27;d be surprised...</text></comment>