The Intense Logistics of Truffles

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[@maximeboissonneault6203]

Who would have thought that buying truffles by the kilo is more than 4 times cheaper than buying them by the pound!

[@kestekrafts1580]

because if you use the metric system you may not be stupid enough to take advantage of

[@SuperHGB]

*almost 2 times not 4 times Edit: I accidentally caused minor chaos. Definitely going to plan Edit 2: It may actually be major

[@maximeboissonneault6203]

@@SuperHGB last I checked, there’s a 2.2 factor between kilos and pounds, and another 2.2 factor between the prices shown in the video… that makes it a 4.8 factor when compounded.

[@crassianleviathan6187]

@@SuperHGB No, it's 4 times cheaper because A. The kilo is 2x cheaper and B. The kilo is a bit more than double the weight of a pound

[@max-de-boer]

Looks like the writers need to take a Brilliant course

[@TheMotlias]

I love that the biggest white truffle ever found was 1.3kg but the guy who found it decided not to sell it, instead he invited the whole town over and had a giant feast where they shared and ate the whole truffle. WHOLESOME!

[@itsmederek1]

I actually ate at the restaurant that found it in Istria, Croatia. They have a bronze sculpture from a mould of the truffle and it's insanely huge.

[@beringarius4065]

@@itsmederek1 they should have taken the DNA from that truffle to see if that was a special variant

[@soundscape26]

Boss move.

[@RustyNinja100]

Capitalists fear men like that

[@vigilantcosmicpenguin8721]

@@itsmederek1 I love there being a sculpture of a truffle like it's the hero of the city.

[@emaildovinicius1]

The right price per kilogram is $ 8,800. You divided price/pound by 2.2 insted of multiplying it.

[@leventejonas4857]

Don't be too hard on him, he is american

[@TheCheck999]

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[@gabriele1051]

i thought u was losing my mind lmao

[@therealslimpanda]

I was literally gonna comment saying that the math is bullshit

[@sebastiangruenfeld141]

Gentlemen, I've got an idea. We buy kilos of truffles and sell them per pound. Infinite money glitch.

[@slothfulcobra]

There was an NPR piece on a NYC truffle distributor, and he said that he just ignored parking laws on the day he does a truffle run because the time saved makes him enough money to deal with the tickets.

[@ericg7044]

To be fair that's how a lot of drivers operate in NYC. Especially downtown where your only option is to park in a lot which requires waiting for them to retrieve your car when you get back.

[@floridag8rfan]

Similar to something I read once... "At a certain level of wealthy, parking fines are just 'what it costs to park there.'"

[@ErdTirdMans]

Justice for Amy! She has earned some truffles!

[@ArchOfWinter]

By not having Amy taste it, it takes away from the credibility of HaI! We demand you restore our trust in this channel by giving Amy a meal with truffles!

[@KonradvonHotzendorf]

Cheapskate 😮 Give Amy food✊

[@robertk1701]

​@@ArchOfWinteragreed. This is Half as Interesting, not Half as Credible.

[@flazzorb]

​@@robertk1701and especially not Half Ass Integrity!

[@radagastwiz]

Or at least a repair to her phone screen!

[@DoABarrelRol1l]

Now I see why 'funny pig mushrooms' are considered a Luxury Resource in Civ 5 comparable to Diamonds, Gold, and Whales. Thanks!

[@imveryangryitsnotbutter]

Wait until you find out how much people will pay for vanilla and saffron.

[@caltheuntitled8021]

@@imveryangryitsnotbutterBut why buy real vanilla when the imitation stuff is nearly indistinguishable?

[@boarbot7829]

@@caltheuntitled8021status.

[@skyfeelan]

> I thought it was candy, but it was pigs! > It's not either of those things

[@caltheuntitled8021]

@@skyfeelan Door Monster fan, I see

[@danielvarela9944]

Nice video, as always!. Just FYI, the at 3:55 the prices of Truffles are backwards.

[@portdouglassrailfan]

yeah noticed that as well

[@ZontarDow]

I was gonna say, because that makes no sense

[@parkerhope387]

Damn, got the correction before me.

[@TheGamerbeasts101]

Good, I'm not hallucinating then...

[@paco4756]

Metric truffles are cheaper actually

[@grrile7]

I studied abroad in italys Umbria Provence where most of the truffle is found and MANNNN was that incredible. Everywhere we went in our home village has truffle options for it and it only cost and extra Buck usually. Pepperoni pizza? Truffle it. Salad? Have some truffle. The local place that acted like it was authentic Mexican food? Truffle taquitos and salsa. Lovely time there

[@LogsMaggot]

White truffle oil is a thing all around Italy but it’s not really more expensive than regular extra virgin olive usually, so I’d guess there are a lot of rip offs… but it still tastes kind of like the real deal so I’m ok with that lol, I would eat those fuckers like they’re apples if I had the money to do it.

[@penitent2401]

@@LogsMaggot those usually only has like 0.5% or less of truffle oil and remainder is regular olive oil, basically truffle flavoured olive oil. and also usually they have "flavour enhancers" which is the chemicals made to simulate truffles because that little bit of real truffle in them has no noticeable difference.

[@lonestarr1490]

@@LogsMaggot Truffle oil tastes like the real deal? Okay, that's good to know, because it means that truffle tastes like old wet feet and I don't need to bother.

[@LogsMaggot]

@@lonestarr1490 yeah good for you man

[@lonestarr1490]

@@LogsMaggot It is! And frankly, that's all I really care about 😜

[@edl5731]

The video would have been better if Amy had been able to expense some truffle eating research.

[@MayoKM]

I learned to always buy my truffles by the kilo. Thanks Sam!

[@TheTexas1994]

I like they had to add the "Sam didn't actually hide a body in Acadia" just to make sure they didn't get raided by the Feds

[@zhongcena]

This is a video about bricks...

[@stylesrj]

@@zhongcena Are Truffles measured in brick units? Because I think Sam might have left it out in this video about bricks :D

[@thomasrinschler6783]

Sure he didn't. I'm betting there's a "Jet Lag: National Parks" series that was quietly cancelled when Sam's partner really wrecked their plan, letting Adam and Ben get way ahead, and then "mysteriously disappeared"...

[@Feraligono]

Mushrooms getting moldy is hilariously ironic.

[@sephikong8323]

That's like your corpse being eaten by maggots I mean, it's ironic, you're both animals after all

[@felipedalcin6860]

At this conversion rate I’ll certainly be buying them by the kg! 😂

[@superior96]

Went to the comments to look for this lol

[@TheRubySpider]

But them by the kg, then sell them by the lb. Real-life infinite money glitch!

[@rebeccafisk4200]

When I visited Alba, I met a real truffle dog! I bought a few grams of it from him, he was a good boy.

[@Peterwhy]

A few grams of the real truffle dog?

[@elRandomTk]

@@Peterwhy I'm almost positive it was a pusher joke (he bought from the dog 'him'self)

[@RemedialRob]

"Factor" is just a subsidiary of Hello Fresh so if you take issue with Hello Fresh's penchant for union busting and mistreating their employees you might want to give Factor a pass as well. That goes for "Good Chop" too. Also a Hello Fresh subsidiary.

[@royzhu5735]

Thanks for the info!

[@RealNovgorod]

Is there anybody on the youtubes who STILL doesn't use Sponsorblock? Who would be this irresponsible? Even and especially on mobile, thanks to _Redacted.

[@darkwoodmovies]

Damn, I really like Factor :(

[@RemedialRob]

@@darkwoodmovies You can still buy from them. You just have to compromise your morality and accept that you are a monster! LOL. Honestly Hello Fresh keeps coming out with new names for slightly different products so at this point there's like ten or more companies, all under the Hello Fresh banner, that offer slightly different food services and no company doing things entirely above board is going to diversify like that. It's shifty AF.

[@orngjce223]

​@@RealNovgorod Mobile doesn't have sponsorblock

[@lucassilvas1]

3:52 , shouldn't that be reversed? Kg weighs more than lb

[@just_kos99]

I was going to say that, too. A kilo is 2.2 pounds, so logically it'd be the more expensive measure.

[@nova6194]

Shit in US' expensive

[@pulkit7298]

Freedom units are move expensive

[@certivicator932]

Money glitch found I buy Truffles by the kilo and sell them by the pound

[@dineshvegeta]

Yes, it should be reversed

[@balpreetsingh6834]

3:53 what did i just read? Is that an intentional mistake for the end of the year video?

[@stardumbspots]

Hi, I live in Italy right where the truffles are searched... Thanks for the video!

[@spartan117ak]

how about an episode of the logistics of Hellofresh Nothing tastes quite as good as negligent safety standards and union busting 👍

[@iafozzac]

Meanwhile there's me, a Piedmontese, eating truffle for a tenth of the price Americans pay

[@Lukusprime]

Half-baked Scooby-Doo villain scheme: 1: buy and fence off a plot of land where truffles are relatively common 2: train a bunch of pigs to look for and eat truffles 3: release said pigs by the thousands into Europe, making truffles much more expensive and I can sell the truffles from my pig-free plot of land for an even more exorbitant amount of money

[@heidirabenau511]

These Amazon ads are just insane. Who would even fall for it?

[@92Hidden]

At least they're gonna be super easy to block, putting a nice distinct keyword in each one

[@TheDarkbluerock]

I thought it's a new annoying meme😂

[@I_Love_Learning]

@@92Hidden Yeah!

[@I_Love_Learning]

@@TheDarkbluerock Lol

[@five-toedslothbear4051]

4:56 yes! Thank you, Sam, for validating the fact that I do not need to eat expensive food to enjoy dinner. I will probably never eat a truffle. They are probably tasty, but while I have a KZbin account, I am quite the simple bear.

[@cs8712]

The insane logistics of watching a HAI video at work without your boss finding out

[@TheHylianBatman]

I've heard of truffles before, but didn't know anything about them. Very cool!

[@zachrichards1080]

I’m excited to learn about the logistics of waffles!

[@transportabelle]

I bought a whole truffle for my birthday, lost it during cooking and found it a week later. Still holding on to the fancy sludge jar a year later, just can't quite let go. 😭

[@dankdungeon5104]

You lost it during cooking? You cooking in the void or what?

[@transportabelle]

@@dankdungeon5104 Sloppy inter-chef communication and space management, due to premature and excessive aperitif consumption. 🥴

[@aervanath]

How is it more expensive for a pound than a kilo?

[@nitsan5623]

at 3:54 i think you switched kg and lbs

[@iLlacerda]

I was so confused too. Perhaps the Serbian broker charges more for the inconvenience of the imperial system hahaha

[@teh-maxh]

Noticed a pretty big flub here: You didn't let Amy get the truffles!

[@kermifwog8365]

just found this channel, already super interesting! cool video

[@gibble75310]

na it's only half as interesting

[@AdrianHereToHelp]

I genuinely love Sam's logistics videos

[@xXKyledkXx]

“People just need to learn to romanticize Serbia” had me in stitches!

[@LawAndBedlum]

4:47 lol your phone looks like it survived a fight with a wood chipper

[@txbornviking1]

"but it's logistics and that's very for me to say" Sam clearly knows his audience, er, I mean... Mr. HAI

[@mylesrichardson6858]

This was actually pretty interesting and always wondered why truffle oil was so dang expensive

[@Paulftate]

Always wondered about this truffle thingy

[@Drakxii]

Give amy that meal!

[@darwinsdankfactory3848]

How is the pound number smaller than the kilogram number? I think the two numbers are switched.

[@SolinoOruki]

Logistics Sam is back 😂

[@mrpanda4405]

Can you do a video on the logistics of diamonds or other precious materials

[@daves9172]

Watching a video about my tiny home town on HAI was… interesting

[@magmaspeedcubes]

$4000/lb $1800/kg 1lb=2.2kg

[@TheCheck999]

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[@mobimaks]

Another example of the superiority of the metric system 😄

[@JulianSildenLanglo]

Seems like it makes more sense to travel to a place that grows truffles and eat them there.

[@Flying-Skitty]

Yoo. I first learned about these when reading Dr. Stone. Fun to learn more abt the logistical side of truffles a cpl years later

[@Matts_Ancient_Coins]

Im in northern Italy for the summer and wooow I eat truffles whenever I can.

[@lilytran3414]

You missed the perfect sponsor opportunity to promote a truffle-flavored Factor meal.

[@hewhoamareismyself]

If I wanted to watch a video about logistics I'd watch Wendover. WE WANT MORE BRICKS

[@zachjones6944]

Truffles and morels can both be grown indoors now.

[@goinkosu]

I tried selling a truffle I found at Randall McClintock National Park once, but it turned out to just be a pretty big potato.

[@basketballprodigy12]

Hmm $1800/kg and $4000/lb I guess I should buy them from the metric man and sell to the imperial person and profit largely.

[@ricardopieper11]

You can really taste the logistic effort when you eat one of those

[@donwald3436]

4:45 Hey, this shows Sam asking someone if HE can expense a truffle, not the other way around!

[@StefanoBorini]

The lagotto romagnolo is a dog breed specifically selected for truffle search.

[@JenniferinIllinois]

Come on Sam. Amy wants some truffles. Let her have some truffles! #trufflesforAmy #justiceforAmy

[@cassieoz1702]

Australia grows lots of black truffles for the northern hemisphere 'off season'

[@alinaserstobojeva6062]

Love the content :D

[@ImperatorSupreme]

Someone tell the Guy from Wendover that the Guy from Half as Interesting is muscling in his logistics video market.

[@dfree00]

Like wine, olive oil, lemons, and many other things, truffles are sold as italians when actually they are from somewhere else. Italians are really good at marketing nothing else!

[@Persun_McPersonson]

The prices at 3:51 must be backwards because a kilogram is larger than a pound. You can't have a pound (0.45 Kg) cost 4 000 $ but a kilo (2.2 lb) cost only 1 800 $.

[@tylerthegamer8766]

How is a kilogram of truffles less when a kilogram is over two pounds? I think you may have switched your figures there.

[@raultiboc1281]

Nobody has noticed but in 1:03 the plant on the left is weed

[@jesseberg3271]

"I thought they were chocolate, but they were actually pigs!"

[@tweezerjam]

I’m perfectly fine with the fact I’ll never be able to afford truffles.

[@firstcynic92]

$44 for 5 grams on your pasta = ~20,000 per pound. A 500% profit margin. $4000 per pound for a restaurant to buy them = $250 per ounce. To buy one yourself... $400 per ounce, 137.5% of the restaurant buying price, but 3 times less than what the restaurant sells it to you.

[@connorgrady2443]

Looks like the unit conversion went wrong at around 3:54. $4000/lb is about $8800/kg, not $1800/kg

[@Ochosi]

Your Kg to LB conversion to dollars is reversed XD Love your stuff!!!!

[@bigfategg_4554]

Holy smokes! Is that the guy from Jet Lag: The Game?

[@thatonedynamitecuber]

Tom sure did go a long way!

[@DeltaDemon1]

I love how truffle respect borders.

[@ryanair4713]

Ah yes, truffles will be on the error video this year 3:56

[@hazeldejesus]

I’m gonna be honest, I thought this video was going to be about chocolate truffles. I didn’t even know mushroom truffles were a thing lmao

[@johanneskurz7122]

A word about your sponsor: 13usd per serving is just insane pricing. And then additionally a minimum of 6 meals per week. That's just bonkers.

[@Croz89]

Indeed, at that price I may as well go to a restaurant.

[@tonycolle8699]

When I saw the title, I wondered what was so difficult about rolling chocolate ganache into small balls then rolling them in cocoa powder

[@thomaswalsh4552]

Last time someone romanticized Serbia we had two world wars

[@james7286]

I unironically romanticise Serbia more than Italy

[@DangerAngelous]

Some say that even to this day, they can’t decide whether a barn built plane or a one million pound hypercar can deliver truffle the fastest

[@C05597641]

Iv had amazing truffle dishes for cheap and tasteless truffle dishes for big bucks. Eat what is cheap and in season for you and cook at home.

[@rich_mentalduck1631]

About the ad, a Chef is not a protected title. That means that anyone can call themselves a chef. . .

[@7anner780]

Yesss logistics!

[@4thalt]

3:52 That's going on the yearly mistake video.

[@JayceeOnYouTube]

We need to start a movement #LetAmyEatTruffles

[@4thalt]

Seeing that title made me think this was one of those accidental uploads to a different channel

[@deleted-something]

A very good tactic to not make them notice that the order is late may I say

[@Mexican00b]

truffles... i wonder when the bubble will pop... a yes, when the fungus goes extinct... oh, you think this consume rate will make it survive? hahaha

[@Efflorescentey]

On today’s episode of “I didn’t realise Australia isn’t the norm” - truffles are grown all over so we put it on everything. Next week: saying “Hip hip HOORAY” after a birthday song

[@iheartnova]

I wonder if the logistics of Durian would be as interesting if not more

[@mastahc411]

Can i buy it in kg and resell it in lbs for a profit?

[@nerd26373]

They say is this channel is the best at being the number one source of information. I couldn't agree more.

[@ThePrufessa]

Infographics

[@fim]

3:54 the other way bro XD

[@PsRohrbaugh]

They're worth it for a full heal and bonus hearts...

[@lonelyPorterCH]

Crazy how much people pay for stuff to eat not because of the taste, but the rarity

[@SchemingGoldberg]

That's how money works. The price of things is based on the supply and demand. Less supply means higher price.

[@I_Love_Learning]

What is up with all of the bots advertising some 44X thing? Spammers...

[@railrunners]

OH MY GOD IT'S LOGISTICS, HE SAID THE WORD, IT'S THE MOMENT I'VE WAITED MY LIFE FOR

[@thecomidicpenguin]

Insane that we have gotten people to the moon but have not figured out how to grow a white truffle commercially.

[@juaquinfuentesjara7352]

If you think this is ridiculous logistics, there are some fruits which need way more shennanigans. For example species of strawberry (Fragaria chiloensis) lasts like a day or two before rotting. Its a big, white with red seeds, and its the predecessor (it got mixed with an european strawberry) of modern strawberries. Its an absolute pain to grow, but even a bigger pain to transport so most of it gets eaten in the few places it grows (Southern Chile, some pacific islands, and there seem to be some growing in Hawai too according to wikipedia). Getting the fruit in a place like europe is ridiculously expensive. According some people I know its even tastier than normal strawberries, but its far easier to just go where it grows if you want to eat it than take it somewhere else.

[@perrojoshua]

give her the truffle sam.

[@fishettibean]

Remember when Clarkson drove some truffle back from Italy as part of a race for Top Gear.

[@JuiceBoxScott]

I wonder if the truffle pasta I had in Italy was made with truffles from outside Italy because the Italian truffles are worth more. The pasta was very affordable.

[@TheKlaun9]

I of course can't tell you the answer to that specifically, but consider that if we're not talking about white truffles, it's really not that expensive. A couple of grams go a long way. You can get sufficient fresh black winter truffle for a pasta dish for like 5€. In a decent middle class restaurant in Italy, you pay let's say 16€ for such a dish - so very realistic. May get way cheaper in the South (if you're American, this is most likely where you went?). But no idea what's affordable to you. If it was perhaps a cheaper / more touristy restaurant with processed truffles - you can really go as cheap as you want even with Italian truffles, not that it matters. But perhaps they indeed fooled you into eating Serbian produce.

[@Efflorescentey]

The price tag is mostly from the exporters who had to fly the truffles from Italy to other places. The Italian farmers sell them for roughly the same price to local restaurants and to exporters.

[@joshuaevans6295]

This video had to be called "The *Intense* Logistics of Truffles" because the phrase "The Insane Logistics of [X]" is copyrighted by Tom from Wendover.

[@starrymusicforsleep]

They're the same company...