Sunday, June 11, 2017

Ode to Spargel (reprise)

I wrote this and posted it originally in my Jim & Judy's Excellent Adventure blog when we first visited Innsbruck 5 years and one month ago.  It was spargel (asparagus) season then, too.  The white spargel is absolutely out of this world: there is nothing like it in the U.S., which mystifies me.  I was so inspired that I wrote this 5 years ago.

This is auf Deutsch, or at least my attempt to do so.  Apologies to those who know better.  You can correct me (please!).

And if you don't speak German and want to know what it says, open Google Translate, cut and paste with initial language as German and output language as English. 


Ode an den Spargel
Ob zum Frühstück, Mittag-oder Abendessen
Spargel kann ich nicht vergessen


Im Frühling oder Sommerzeit
Spargel is lecher Fröhlichkeit

Ich mag es, in Salaten und auch in der Suppe
Ich mag es, allein oder in einer Gruppe

Ich mag es als Hauptgericht oder also Vorspeise
Ich würde wahrscheinlich wie Spargel-Eis

Amerikanischen Spargel is wirklich erbärmlich
Aber Deutschen Spargle is wahrlich himmlisch. 

Fütter mich Spargel.  Sag nicht "Nein!"
Gib mir mein Spargel und ich will fröhlich sein.


Amen.


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