sf wrote on Wed, 05 Mar 2008 20:57:39 -0800:

??>> I really can't be bothered scraping thick
??>> asparagus but some people like it a lot and I even saw
??>> some recently as a featured item in a "gourmet"
??>> supermarket that had a diameter of about an inch.

s> Nobody "scrapes" cultured asparagus these days.... even if
s> it's green.

Speak for youself or, as was mentioned in another group, let me
quote Yogi Berra "Nobody goes to Coney Island anymore, it's too
crowded". I don't like wasting edible parts by snapping off
large quantities and nor do I like spitting out the stringy
parts of asparagus and I doubt if many others do.

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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