I love Asparagos!
"I remember my lars’ customer, the very lars’ customer that ever I ’ad. He was a Mr. Moses Gluckstein, a city gent and very pleasant and fond of sparrowgrass and chokes."
The War in the Air, by H G Wells, 1908. Chokes are artichokes.
"Slavey came in while I was eating it, and caught me picking it up with my fingers. Next morning she says to my missis, so missis told me, “’Ow does master eat ’is sparrowgrass when ’e’s out with company, mum?” says she."
Lord Raingo, by Arnold Bennett, 1926. A slavey was a hard-worked live-in maidservant.