I don't think there ever can have been asparagus there. The island next to it (not in this shot) is called Samphire Island and lots of wild rock samphire can be found there.
Could be, the local language used asparagus differntly than we nowadays.
I know an "asparagus-lettuce" of which its tender stem is eaten (and cooked like asparagus), not the leaves. Maybe there is or was a kind of maritime cabbage, that was used simillary? Or any other plant, which subterranean stem or rhizome could be eaten ... ?
Well, well - I think, I should go to my garden now, sun shines, but rain will come by the afternoon. ;-/
The Cornish never were that cullinarilly literate, Leon! I bet the name of the two islands was given by some Victorian gentleman on his holiday!
I have told this tale before; ... I could never decide which island was which so I asked a wizened old fisherman in a Portreath pub. Admittedly he had put away a few sherbets but his response was along the lines of (and I make it is as publishable as possible for a family site);
"Who gives a flying f..k".
I thought his logic was reasonable (if not exactly impeccable), even if his countenance was a tad on the aggressive side so I decided not to ask the locals again and so I still don't know. My guess remains just that, a guess!!
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Leon_Vienna replied to Andy Rodker:
I know an "asparagus-lettuce" of which its tender stem is eaten (and cooked like asparagus), not the leaves. Maybe there is or was a kind of maritime cabbage, that was used simillary? Or any other plant, which subterranean stem or rhizome could be eaten ... ?
Well, well - I think, I should go to my garden now, sun shines, but rain will come by the afternoon. ;-/
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Leon_Vienna said:
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Andy Rodker replied to Leon_Vienna:
I have told this tale before; ... I could never decide which island was which so I asked a wizened old fisherman in a Portreath pub. Admittedly he had put away a few sherbets but his response was along the lines of (and I make it is as publishable as possible for a family site);
"Who gives a flying f..k".
I thought his logic was reasonable (if not exactly impeccable), even if his countenance was a tad on the aggressive side so I decided not to ask the locals again and so I still don't know. My guess remains just that, a guess!!
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