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rob, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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The word truffle comes from the portmanteauing of trumpet and raffle.Because before pigs were utilized to locate them, people would fill a trumpet with coordinates and play "The Raffle Shuffle" on it. Whichever set of coordinates shot out during the protracted high C were believed to indicate the location of a truffle on a standard Ordnance Survey map.
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