Chocolate & Fungus?

These sure are good

Whole Foods even had a coupon for them!

Organic & dark chocolate - does that make it any more nutritious?

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What's the relationship between chocolate truffles and fungus truffles? 

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"According to legend, the classic chocolate truffle was invented by accident in the 1920s in France. One of Auguste Escoffier's apprentices poured boiling hot cream over chopped chocolate instead of tempering it into an egg mixture. Not wanting to throw out the expensive mistake, they whisked it together and discovered that, when it cooled, it could be rolled into little balls. They then dusted them with cocoa powder.The resulting lopsided balls looked very much like the fungus of the same name, and the chocolate truffle was born. This is an apocryphal story, but it often makes us feel better to know that our mistakes can turn out to be real gems!" source

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There are some places online where you can purchase chocolate truffles that contain the fungus truffes!

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The word truffle probably comes from Latin term "tuber" meaning lump. 

In French it became "truffle." 

Now you know!