In shops, on the side of the road, in farmstalls. In our area asparagus are literally and figuratively part of the local culture. And then, from one day to the other, the stalls are selling red currants, and strawberries, cherries and raspberries – but no … Continue reading One Day Asparagus Are Sold Everywhere
This is a contraption that helps to harvest asparagus by lifting the protective foil so that the two harvesters sitting on the sides can reach the raised soil mounds. Ragtag Daily Prompt: Contraption
Newcomers to Germany are usually astonished by the feeding frenzy concerning asparagus in the months from late March to mid June. There is a plethora of asparagus to be had in supermarkets, in restaurants, and at the roadside.
But I’ve never seen a heap of spoiled asparagus at the side of an asparagus field. I don’t know what was wrong with them, why the spears were discarded. It just looked like a plethora of waste.
Frankfurt’s TV tower, known as the Asparagus by the the locals. I’m not sure whether the combination of salami and asparagus works.
Around May there is kind of madness that descends on Germans. They go bananas over white asparagus. They eat it with meat, with ham, with pancakes, on its own, usually with a sauce hollandaise or a bechamel sauce. They even paint their houses with it. Proper fanatics.
BTW: The writing properly translated means: Without asparagus, life is unimportant.
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For the life of me I will never understand that we can buy cantaloupe melons, Galia melons, Charentais melons and so on in the local supermarkets but Cavaillon melons are nowhere to be had. Cavaillon is twinned with our town, it shouldn’t be a problem. Also, a mere 100km away from us, just over the border in France, they are sold when in season, it shouldn’t be a problem. And they are simply the best melons ever!
In late spring there are untold roadside stands selling strawberry and asparagus in our area. The places may not be the most inviting – chosen for convenient access and parking rather than beautiful surroundings – but the goods usually are.
I prefer this advert placement for a day of fruit and vegetables (from another year, I think this year’s will be cancelled).
Linked to One Word Sunday: Fruit.
This sculpted group stands in Lampertheim, a salute to the asperagus farmers and sellers right in the centre of the traditional asperagus growing regions. I stress traditional because with the advent of plastic covering on fields (and a bit of help from global warming) white asperagus is farmed in many areas of Germany. In the wide Rhine valley the climate was always favourable and in combination with the sandy soil which has come on southerly winds from the Sahara dessert for aeons it became ideal for this spring vegetable. Germans eat “Spargel” with a passion and the season is from early spring until traditionally 24 June in order to give the plants time to recuperate before the next season. To this day more than half of the German asparagus is sold on roadside stands and in open markets.
Linked to Cee’s Black & White Photo Challenge: Tables, Chairs, Picnic Tables, etc.
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inversion
interstice
ciruitous
sabulous
Another five words for a Thursday Special and what I could find to illustrate them.
Go to Paula’s Lost in Translation blog for more photos fitting the five words.
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