Thread: Leeks. The poor man's asparagus?
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Default RESPLENDENT COW JULIE BOVINE TALKS ABOUT "Leeks, the poor man'sasparagus."
On 4/15/2016 9:03 AM, Mustaffa Sheboygan wrote:
> In article >,
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>> On 4/15/2016 1:16 AM, Julie Bovine wrote:
>>> This is what I heard Jacques Pepin say. He said that asparagus was
>>> expensive in France so the poor buy leeks and serve them as they would
>>> asparagus. Granted my forays with leeks have been few but I do like
>>> them. I can't stand asparagus and can't see the similarities.
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>> Julie, you know you'd rather have a whole bucket's worth of candy bars.
>> Who you kiddin'?
>> LOL
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> Julie has "forays with leeks"? LOL! What a stupid ****!
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Julie is waxing metaphorically. She is like a cow grazing in the
pasture for tender tidbits amongst the rough.

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