Bon appetite for tycoon who paid £85k for white truffle

It might resemble a pile of poop, but in fact it is worth is weight in gold several times over.



The world's expensive truffle, it commanded a record-breaking £85,000, making it ounce for ounce, five times as expensive as gold.

Snapped up by a Hong Kong tycoon bidding at a charity auction, the white truffle's monster price tag easily beat the previous record of £63,000.

Made up of three palm-sized sections and weighing 3.3 pounds in total, the pricey fungus was unearthed by trained dogs in the forests of Piedmont in north-western Italy.