An old friend suggested this was redolent of one of the more extreme-end-of-the-scale Heston Blumenthal dishes; one I agreed I wouldn’t be trying at home. The caesium has accumulated in the atmosphere, soil and ground water from years of bomb tests in the last century and there’s more added by disasters like Chernobyl. It’s then taken up by plants and fungus, and as truffles are such a favourite of the boar, they in turn wind up with dangerously high levels building up in their meat.
So it’s now illegal to eat them. Understandably of course. Except that they’re now, in the absence of hunting numbers controls, (like nuclear weapons), proliferating. We’re all totally fucked, aren’t we?
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