Attention foodies: Sotheby's will auction off a football-sized truffle this weekend

The record-setting 4.16-pound white truffle was found
 last week in Umbria, Italy and is scheduled to go on 
the auction block in New York on Saturday, 
December 6.Photo: AP

Now that’s one humongous fungus!

A record-breaking white truffle weighing 4.1 pounds is going up 
for auction at Sotheby’s in Manhattan this Saturday.

The giant tuber — which is about the size of football — was dug 
up last week in Umbria, 
Italy, by a truffle-hunting dog that works for Sabatino Tartufi Truffles. 
An average truffle is about the size of a walnut.

“The hunter was speechless when he found ‘Big Boy.’ 
The smell was intoxicating,” Giuseppina Balestra, a co-owner of Sabatino, 
told the Times of London.

The mammoth truffle has already attracted Chinese buyers willing 
to pay $1 million. The winner will have to go from auction block 
to chopping block: 
This Big Boy will rot within 20 days. nypost.com/