And the most expensive food item we carry is...

[Dreamstalker]

Yesterday I received/signed for possibly the most expensive food item I have ever personally laid hands on.

(I don't think I was actually supposed to sign for it, but the vendor is one that Grocery gets a lot from as well so I didn't know exactly what it was...also there was no name on the label as to who it was for)

Shortly after the Fedex guy left, D (one of the restaurant managers) comes into the warehouse as I'm opening the case just to see what it is.
D: "Oh good, you signed for it."
Me: "I thought this was for Grocery. So what is it?"
D shows me the invoice...two cases of truffle-cream sauce (which we have in grocery so I thought it was ours) and 400-odd grams of fresh black truffles at a wholesale price of just under $400
D: "The truffles are obviously perishable, so it shouldn't sit out back here. Did Fedex just leave?"
Me: "Yup, about a minute ago."
D: "Awesome. I'll take that stuff. Thank you sososo much, I know if anyone else had signed for it it would have just sat here."

On that note...yay truffle season hath started (yes I'm weird)

[Pixelated]

I'm pretty sure I've tried truffles in chocolate and suchlike, but I don't think I've ever tried black truffles. Are they particularly rare? What do they taste like?

[Dreamstalker]

Truffles are a fungus, so they taste kinda mushroomy, more earthy though.

The black truffles can be commercially cultivated so black is the cheaper of the two, but have a milder flavor. White truffles can't (at least not on a large scale) so that's the expensive one.

(I probably mentioned elsewhere that we have "white chocolate truffles" that aren't what one would first think )

[Nunavut Pants]

Note that the chocolate confection called "truffle" is very different. It is named for its supposed similarity in appearance to the fungus.

Truffles are odd things. To me, they can really make a dish taste much better, without tasting like anything more than the dish! Up to a point, where they take over and everything just tastes kinda funky--and not in a good way.

On the other hand, there is no such thing as too much chocolate truffles! I could eat those until I lapse into a diabetic coma....

Since DS works in an Italian market, they probably are used to seeing them labeled "tartufi".

[Tama]

I got interested in truffles because there's so darn many of them in Breath of the Wild (and I have yet to find a white one in the world, I end up buying it from a merchant when they do show up).

I'm learning so much in this thread!

[Aria]

Truffles are incredible... I've only really had them once in my life, in Vegas. They are incredibly expensive though, because even the cultivated ones... well, they're not easy to cultivate, at all.

[Dreamstalker]

The jars of truffle salt we sell will actually leach the odor into the cardboard box. J caught me once with my nose in an empty box and went "OK, I'll give you a pass on this because truffles aren't a controlled substance."

[Dave1982]

The most expensive thing I’ve signed for (that I know of) was in the neighborhood of $3 MILLION. I can’t say what it was for security reasons, though.

[dalesys]

The most expensive thing I’ve signed for (that I know of) was in the neighborhood of $3 MILLION. I can’t say what it was for security reasons, though.

Did you ever find out who signed for the offog? And what it is?

[Argabarga]

We towed a Lamborghini once, at owner request, he was thrilled and tipped big.

We've also towed a Maserati twice, both for wrecks. Once was a minor spin out, the second time.... don't know what he did, but he was a good 40 yards off the road and into a creek. The value of the car was pretty much nil at that point. Maybe he should've paid for some driving lessons too?

[Mental_Mouse]

Did you ever find out who signed for the offog? And what it is?

Ah, the classics! (Woof!)

[Tama]

don't know what he did, but he was a good 40 yards off the road and into a creek.

It probably involved booze.

[greek_jester]

It probably involved booze.

And probably the phrase "Watch this!"

[Racket_Man]

And probably the phrase "Watch this!"

and along with this phrase be4ing said first "Here hold my beer" then "Watch this".

[Kristev]

You're all building up to a Darwin Award story.