Asparagus ice cream, asparagus pizza and, of course, just plain old asparagus with butter: Few countries worship the asparagus quite like Germany and come spring restaurants around the country begin serving their take on this semi-sacred vegetable. Before then, German media will have begun reporting forecasts on the coming crop of “white gold” or “edible ivory,” as many fans call it when posting pictures of their first asparagus of the year on social media. Every year the average German consumes about 1.7 kg of asparagus (mostly white – the green variety is less common in Germany), according t…