{"id":646,"date":"2026-04-18T17:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/?p=646"},"modified":"2026-04-18T17:53:11","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T17:53:11","slug":"asparagus-green-or-white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/04\/18\/asparagus-green-or-white\/","title":{"rendered":"Asparagus: white or green?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we order the mixed salad here it almost always comes with white asparagus. I\u2019m sure we\u2019ve shown some salad photos with it. We don\u2019t like it, kind of mushy. Green asparagus is harder to transport and has to be picked before it goes to seed. We heard it was grown underground. Betty, last night, mentioned how they grow it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pxl_20260418_090143606_original-1024x771.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"771\" src=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pxl_20260418_090143606_original-1024x771.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-612\" srcset=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pxl_20260418_090143606_original-1024x771.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pxl_20260418_090143606_original-300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pxl_20260418_090143606_original-768x578.jpg 768w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pxl_20260418_090143606_original-1536x1157.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pxl_20260418_090143606_original-1200x904.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/pxl_20260418_090143606_original.jpg 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 709px) 85vw, (max-width: 909px) 67vw, (max-width: 1362px) 62vw, 840px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">They just cover it with black plastic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Today we were chatting with a guy from Oxford and related the story. He said he did not know there was green asparagus. So it must not be common in the UK either. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">So I have to relate my favorite, and only, asparagus joke. At a dinner with shared food a plate of (green) asparagus was being passed down. On getting the plate a woman took a knife and sliced off all the tips and put them on her plate. The next person was shocked and asked why she had done that. She said, \u201cOh, the tips are the best part, didn\u2019t you know?\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When we order the mixed salad here it almost always comes with white asparagus. I\u2019m sure we\u2019ve shown some salad photos with it. We don\u2019t like it, kind of mushy. Green asparagus is harder to transport and has to be picked before it goes to seed. We heard it was grown underground. Betty, last night, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/2026\/04\/18\/asparagus-green-or-white\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Asparagus: white or green?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=646"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":669,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646\/revisions\/669"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wynchar.com\/c26\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}