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Here Comes Truffle

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The Desert Truffle?

In ancient Roman and Greek times, they were treated kind of like a potato. They're eaten by the common people as sort of a vegetable. Zach says this is likely because ancient Greeks and Romans were really city people. The Germanic tribes come into the time peninsula starting in the 400s and they take it over.

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