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You know how in late summer you can find small stands along country roads selling sweet and crisp fresh sweet corn? You know how pretty much everyone loves good sweet corn? It seems the German equivalent is spargel, a white aparagus eaten by everyone around here but, well, me because I don't do asparagus. Out of principle.

When spring rolls around you start seeing those little stands all over the place, and as an added bonus many of the restaurants in town offer special 'Spargel-Spiesekarten,' which is easy to do when your restaurant is locally owned and operated and not, say, an Applebees where the manager doesn't actually know anything about putting together their own menu from locally available ingredients and the kid in the kitchen doesn't see any need to favor quality over quantity, but am I biased on this one? Naa....

The spargel was brought to my attention again today as I pulled from my mailbox a brochure for a local pizzeria advertising their spargel-week. Anyone up for a hollandaise, gouda, spinach leaf, chicken breast and asparagus pizza? How about gouda, rosmary sauce, grated potato, ham, leek and asparagus? I've refused to eat many of those things for most of my life, but they even sound good to me.

You can order one for yourself at www.joker-pizza.de.