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I think you need the ambience to appreciate themString quartet in the back ground, waiter with a towel on his arm, delicately displayed on a hand painted china plate with a artistically placed dribble of Hollandaise sauce. The plate is of course sitting on a gilded charger, and you are in tux and or gown eating it with a fine silver special fork........
I used to grow Globe Artichokes but agree that they are just not worth the effort. Lovely flowers but so fiddly to prepare to eat. Mine always used to attract ants in thousands, I spent many hours watching the ants farming aphids on the artichokes