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the age old political technique of entryism. disguising yourself as a member of a political group - in this case a tuber - as a means of influencing or manipulating from within. in this way if just one in a few consumers cry out in pleasure rather than disgust then the popularity of parsnips will increase.

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the age old political technique of entryism. disguising yourself as a member of a political group - in this case a tuber - as a means of influencing or manipulating from within. in this way if just one in a few consumers cry out in pleasure rather than disgust then the popularity of parsnips will increase. "

Not bloody likely, in my opinion. The idea of eating such militantly blatant stealth vegetables, nay--tuberous SPIES--sickens me. If parsnips can't celebrate their parsnippiness in an open, forthright fashion, they clearly don't deserve a place on the plate of life.

I'd vote for a parsnip just for the chance to say "Parsnippiness'! In every election there are vegetables that misrepresent themselves for a place in the salad bar. A recent, most contemptable example of this in Canadian politics was Jean Charest, long-time federal Tory, and Mulroney crony, who slipped his peel and tried to pass himself off as the saviour of Federalism in the Quebec election as a Liberal carrot. The wonder is that these mutable vegetables find people to vote for them.

i'd vote for a parsnip rather than a tory any day!

It works both ways, apparently. In the forthcoming Ontario Provincial election, I am given to understand that a Carrot of the Liberal ilk has crossed the bar to lie with the beans in the Tory tray. She would have us believe that the inflamatory language, upon which her success as a Liberal was based; should, all along, have been taken as good-natured kidding. It seems that many of these vegetables, of whatever description, are fundamentaly rotten.

In the words of Ben Franklin, "Fine words butter no parsnips". How can anyone accuse parsnips
of being the "stealth vegetable" or mistake them for spuds, I do not know. They look like
nothing on earth but albino carrots. And if you don't slice them thin and fry them in butter,
well, you've missed the whole point.

what?? you don't roast them? Can anyone explain, though, why parsnips smell like burning plastic when they are roasting?