Talk:Spargel

Merge?
Think there's an argument for merging this with Asparagus FlagSteward 20:10, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

Yeah, this should probably be a sub-section of the Asparagus article. Spargel should redirect to that particular section in the main article. Peaceoutside 22:15, 9 October 2007 (UTC)

It should be merged - unfortunately I am not fluently enough in English to do it. Plehn (talk) 17:47, 6 April 2008 (UTC)

I'd also support a merge, but I wonder whether this article and its content are really encyclopedic. It is completely unsoured. There was one source before, I've removed it as the cited material isn't available anymore. Basically I'm not sure why and how the article's content could or should be inserted into Asparagus. I mean, there is a number of countries where asparagus is grown, sold, and eaten. What makes the German asparagus so special? And a vegetable certainly hasn't any nationality. A vegetable is not a dish, and it's not part of a certain national cuisine. It's universal. I'd propose simply turning it into a redirect to Asparagus unless someone provides some new, relevant, and sourced material. --Catgut (talk) 22:26, 25 January 2009 (UTC)


 * You obviously have never been to Germany in May. Asparagus season is not just a time that people eat a certain dish, it's a massive cultural phenomenon in Germany. Football and Oktoberfest and Christmas were just about the only things that came close to matching the fervor of Asparagus season in Germany.
 * I agree that this article should be merged into Asparagus, but not including this content in that article would be beyond enormously ridiculous. Furthermore, source material becoming unavailable is not an excuse to remove a citation. MarcelB612 (talk) 04:35, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Absolutely, they should be merged. White asparagus redirects here, which is not correct, as white asparagus is simply green asparagus deprived of light, and this article is the German term for the same green/white vegetable. Greenman (talk) 20:22, 8 October 2009 (UTC)
 * White asparagus is the same species, but a different breed. It is NOT just green asparagus deprived of light. White asparagus is thicker, has a different taste and a fibrous skin.77.22.106.144 (talk) 23:10, 25 October 2010 (UTC)
 * Do you have a reference for the statement that white asparagus is a different breed? --Lambiam 09:33, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

I'm in favour of merging this into the Asparagus article. For one thing, Spargel is not a common English name for white asparagus, and thus the article name violates our naming policy. And if a non-English name is to be used, why not the French (and Dutch) name Asperge? In the German Wikipedia the article Spargel is about the genus Asparagus; there is just one article about the edible vegetable, named Gemüsespargel, which treats white, green and purple asparagus in a unified way. --Lambiam 09:53, 15 November 2010 (UTC)

"Eastern Europeans"
It's true that much (most? --- I don't have any numbers) of the German Spargel is harvested by seasonal workers from Eastern Europe, by and large, they used to be from Poland, but since it has become part of the European Union, they come from farther east, IIRC. However, the sentence "spargel is usually harvested by people of eastern-european descent" somehow sounds to me as if the ethnicity of the harvesters confers a peculiar taste to the product. I considered phrasing it differently, but I'm rather certain that the information isn't relevant to the article at all. So I just deleted it. Clmeier (talk) 13:43, 9 June 2008 (UTC)

Schwetzingen and Spargel
The situation in Germany today is as You describe in the article. But 50 or more years ago Spargel was produced in some places only, one of them was Schwetzingen (and the countryside around). You needed a wealthy (city) population within delivery range and some sandy soil. There was a political joke about Spargel and Schwetzingen in the 3rd Reich: "Why did they make Goebbels a Honorary Citicen in Schwetzingen? - Because he can eat Spargel crossways" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 93.221.212.100 (talk) 20:54, 5 January 2011 (UTC)