Asparagus

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Many years ago when I was a child, my family went to stay with one of my aunts and my mother mentioned that we would be having asparagus when we got there. I'd never had asparagus before and had no idea what it was so I asked my mother 'Is it a fish?' (I didn't like fish very much at the time.) She explained that it was a vegetable that was delicious eaten with melted butter. It was all a novel experience for me then and asparagus was comparatively rare and expensive. Looking back on that memory now, it seems incredible that I didn't know what asparagus was when it is now so freely available in supermarkets.