Letters to the Editor
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Spargel
As others have pointed out, the German stuff is white, thick, and in my experience not especially interesting if you're used to the thin green kind. It looks like a plate of little sex toys. Too many times it was fibrous and bland. It still provided a ferocious pee odor, though.
Frozen (green) asparagus is probably the saddest thing in the world, except for canned which is too frightening for me to even try, but I would imagine it's slimy, mushy, and salted to death. I have half a bag of spears in the freezer that I should probably just throw away because there's no way I'm going to finish it. I don't know what I was thinking when I bought it in the dead of winter when it probably seemed like a good idea at the time.
I can't wait for the grilled-vegetable craze to end: let's take nice crunchy fresh veg and make them into charred mush. bleah. Maybe done right they're OK, but I don't think I've had any that were. A brief steam is all my spargel needs!