Someone get France a hobby, they just made a 3.7 meter omelette
chris lin posted in News on January 18th, 2004
UZES, France (AFP) - A giant truffle omelette worth several thousand euros (dollars) was whisked up in the French town of Uzes during an annual fair to celebrate the "black diamond." Due to the unusually hot spell in the summer, the price of the black truffle, exotically known as the tuber melanosporum, has risen to 1,000 euros (1,250 dollars) per kilo.
Some 3.5 kilos of truffles and more than 3,200 eggs went into making the giant omelette by a local association set up 18 years ago. Prepared in the openair, the culinary feat required a frying pan of some 3.7 metres in diameter. It was cut into 1,000 pieces and sold. "The giant omelette is a convivial way of allowing consumers to get to know the truffle without it hurting their wallet too much," Claude Rosso, of the association said.
What I said in title, 'nuff said.
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