Nice extra information about the varieties of asparagus; I am always wary of the more specialty items as they tend to carry a bigger price tag but aren't always much different from their more common cousins. Now I certainly won't pay extra for white asparagus AND a raw-application friendly purple variety is good to know about.

I have the lovely combination of producing and detecting the asparagus pee. To me, the smell is like a plastic but I almost always forget about this until I am in the bathroom. I've had someone speak up about it and a classmate felt very excluded for not being able to participate in the conversation haha sometimes ignorance IS bliss