Re: Saturday Night Food Plans? 5/24/2025

On Sun, 25 May 2025 13:14:30 -0400, Dave Smith
<adavid.smith@sympatico.ca> wrote:

On 2025-05-25 12:36 p.m., Jill McQuown wrote:

On 5/24/2025 9:23 PM, ItsJoanNotJoAnn wrote:

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Like corn, Bruce also seems to have something against people eating
asparagus.  Steamed, roasted, whatever.  Corn and asparagus.  Two things
he disparages on a regular basis.  Unless, of course, we're talking
about white asparagus which he seems to think no one in North America
has ever heard of or eaten.

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I have been in Europe a couple times and I don't know if it is a
commercial effort of culture, but asparagus season was a thing. Most of
us who like asparagus look forward to fresh local asparagus each spring
but over there they have restaurant specials featuring asparagus.
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They have a thing about white asparagus, and when you order asparagus
you get a lot of it, like a pound or more. White asparagus was all but
unheard of around here. A few years back some of the local stores
carried it for a while, but it was a lot more expensive than green. I
didn't find a difference in taste or texture that justified the extra
cost. I have not seen the white stuff in local stores for years.
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That being said.... it is asparagus season here in southern Ontario and
we are eating it almost every day.

This is my point. White asparagus is big in certain European
countries. I've been familiar with white asparagus since I was a kid,
Green asparagus came much later and is now also common. I got the
impression that white asparagus was as hard to find in the US as it is
in Australia. I've seen it here once, imported from South America. It
was so old and dry it was best used to start a fire in a fireplace.

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Bruce
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