BristolUK

From a restaurant review in the local newspaper

Main course accompanied by Other than asparagus, what could this be?

Is it possible this food/restaurant critic really doesn't know what asparagus is?

Or perhaps he's a New Brunswicker using irony to express a preference for local produce.

Greenhill

An unfurled fiddlehead?

BristolUK

One hopes he might still have recognised it. Not sure which would be most embarrassing for a foodie.

Greenhill

I have one growing in the yard. Hang on, I'll take a quick snap of it.

Greenhill

This is an unfurled fiddlehead.

BristolUK

I'm guessing he had something on his plate like this



And thought it looked like disintegrated fiddleheads that had lost their fiddles.

Simon Legree

Look a lot like asparagus to me.

scilly

is that sea asparagus??

Also known as Samphire

BristolUK

Ordinary asparagus, but roasted, according to where I found the picture.

Novocastrian

You're all wrong.

Most likely it was pako, a fern rather like fiddleheads but which grows straight and in the Philippines.

scilly

BristolUK ..........


I think the only solution is that you should go and have the same meal at that restaurant, and see if you can identify the mystery veggie


preferably no later than tomorrow night, in case they change the menu

BristolUK

Now why didn't I think of that.

scilly

you could then write up an account of your visit, and submit it to the local newspaper as a review of said restaurant.

If you are lucky, you might get a small remuneration from the paper ........... you wouldn't get your meal paid for though

We had a friend who did that for several years ..... had a lot of nice meals, some poor ones, and earned a few bucks per month

scrubbedexpat133

Which Restaurant was it??

BristolUK

Tide and Boar.

I emailed them and asked. They suggested it could be Broccolini
or Broccoli Rabe although they also serve asparagus.
If it looked like these images maybe the foodie's confusion is a little more understandable.