asparagus roll

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asparagus roll (plural asparagus rolls)

1. (Australia, New Zealand) A finger food made by rolling a spear of asparagus in a slice of buttered bread with the crust cut off.
   • 2002, Craig Dowling, Insight Guide New Zealand, →ISBN, page 89:

     Yet while those clingfilm-wrapped platters of asparagus rolls, savoury cheese balls and Anzac biscuits have gone out of style, they haven't been totally scorned.

   • 2013, Henriette Fleischer, Back to Anatori: One Woman's Experience of a Small, Rural Town in New Zealand, →ISBN:

     People had brought food: whitebait patties, cheese Scones, asparagus rolls, Smoked mussels, Cold meats, Salads, garli bread and scallop pies.

   • 2014, Clive Thomas, Thursday's Child : Journeys Far and Wide in the Australian Outback, →ISBN:

     I told her it would be no trouble for my housekeeper, Mrs Murphy, to make cucumber sandwiches and asparagus rolls for twentyfive.