HBM083: Sweet Like Snap Peas
Here Be Monsters
Here Be Monsters Podcast
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🗓️ 25 October 2017
⏱️ 13 minutes
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Summary
Ryan Graves thinks that store-bought asparagus is as flavorless as potatoes. But that's just because he's spoiled on the really good stuff.
His preferred crop grows wild among the tombstones at Clinton Cemetery, hidden on an old gravel road between the towns of Pullman, Washington and Moscow, Idaho. Most who are buried there died over 100 years ago.
That intervening century left the cemetery mostly forgotten and overgrown. And Ryan thinks the deep-rooted asparagus taste so good because of the natural quality of their fertilizer.
Ryan Graves thinks that store-bought asparagus is as flavorless as potatoes. But that’s just because he’s spoiled on the really good stuff.
His preferred crop grows wild among the tombstones at Clinton Cemetery, hidden on an old gravel road between the towns of Pullman, Washington and Moscow, Idaho. Most who are buried there died over 100 years ago.
Ryan Graves also appears on HBM042: Deers. Jeff Emtman produced this episode.
Music: The Black Spot
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW, this is Here Be Monsters. |
| 0:07.0 | From KCRW, this is Hereby Monsters. be monsters. The way you find the asparagus is you look for the old dead piles from |
| 0:37.8 | last year there's one over here Right over in this area. You can find a couple. I usually find a couple. |
| 0:51.6 | There's some. Yeah, they're all different sizes, you know. I usually find a couple. |
| 0:56.0 | Yeah, they're all different sizes, you know, some of them are, |
| 1:02.0 | some of them are, uh, really fat and thick. And though sometimes they'll even get like that long |
| 1:05.3 | skinnyness where it looks like two grew together. There's one there. Oh here. |
| 1:15.0 | This stuff's really sweet too. Not bad. |
| 1:17.0 | Yeah. |
| 1:19.0 | It's way better than the stuff of the store, huh? |
| 1:25.0 | The stuff of the store tastes like a potato. |
| 1:26.7 | This stuff tastes like a sugar snap pee. |
| 1:29.9 | Yeah. |
| 1:30.9 | Some more. I'm Ryan and I'm from Paulman Washington. |
| 1:37.0 | I'm Ryan and I'm from Pullman, Washington. |
| 1:43.0 | I'm a big plants fan. |
| 1:47.0 | Let's see who this is. |
| 1:52.0 | Let's see who this is. |
| 1:55.0 | Do you read that? |
| 1:59.0 | Elma, and it's hard to read with all the lichens and moss on there, |
| 2:07.0 | Weep not for... Father and Mother. |
| 2:16.0 | it says, for I am waiting in glory for thee. |
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