'Tis the season

It's starting to be the season for Spargel (white asparagus). For the next month or two, we won't be able to go to a supermarket that won't have bunches of the big, white, phallic stuff for sale or restaurants that have special Spargelkarte (asparagus menus) with every possible variation of asparagus. It doesn't do much for me personally (I never much cared for the boring green asparagus we have at home, either), but people here seem to go crazy for it. One of my colleagues even passed along information about the Badische Spargel-Strasse in Germany, where I guess you pretty much just drive from town to town and eat asparagus. And what fun that must be!