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I love root vegetables: carrots, parsnips, and turnips. -- Julia Child
There is a southern proverb - fine words butter no parsnips. -- Walter Scott
In entertainment value, the Democratic clambake usually lays it over the Republican conclave like ice cream over parsnips. -- Red Smith
I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife. -- Stevie Smith
Who was the blundering idiot who said 'fine words butter no parsnips'? Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce. -- William Makepeace Thackeray
And that is ... how they are. So terribly physically all over one another. They pour themselves one over the other like so much melted butter over parsnips. They catch each other under the chin, with a tender caress of the hand, and they smile with sunny melting tenderness into each other's face. -- D. H. Lawrence
On some subconscious level, I've been prejudiced against turnips, parsnips, swedes and other roots. Do they taste of much? Are they really special? How wrong I was. -- Yotam Ottolenghi
The table was covered with food like roast chicken, roast potatoes, roast parsnips, roast turkey, roast liquorice and, the centrepiece, a roasted knight. -- Elias Zapple

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