We arrived in Germany during Spargel (white asparagus) season and noticed that infatuated locals put it on special menus and make meals centered on the fat albino stalks. To grow it, the asparagus has to be hidden from the sun by burying it in dirt mounds and then carefully plucked by hand. All this makes it the most expensive vegetable. It then has to be peeled and delicately cooked. It’s also thicker, more fibrous, and harder to chew. The season is short…and not sweet. Maybe they should call it the Pale-o Diet.
Ugh. 0 for 2 in the culinary department in Leipzig. Good wordsmithing though!
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So I guess it is true for the rest of us
De gustibus est non disputandum.
Thanks for another punny one.
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