Parsnip!
I'm at Safeway the other day, it's one of their more creepy and dispirited locations but it happens to be near my house, so there I am racing past the 75% off bins of fun-size Halloween Twizzler dregs with my sack of bagels, when what should I happen across while cutting through the produce department?A parsnip.
I realize right then and there that I have never eaten a parsnip in my entire life. Not ever. The colorless tubers lay there, neatly stacked like Presto-logs, and I wracked my brain to even think of one thing parsnips go in, and I come up with nothing.
People, what in the mother loving heck is a parsnip?!
Update I baked up a parsnip and reached the following conclusion. Parsnips are basically a fusion of potato and carrot, with a drop of peppermint oil. I guess parsnips just hooked up with a crappy PR firm or something because they seem perfectly palatable to me, although no one seems to eat them.
posted by Strikethru at
5:26 PM
11 Comments:
I also have never eaten a parsnip. Seems they are tasty bits.
http://homecooking.about.com/cs/vegetables/a/parsnip.htm
Cook some and tell us how they are.
I might make carrot and parsnip latkes. Wait... what are latkes?
Far be it from me to question the assertions of tiny-dog, but I happen to know that she has indeed tasted parsnips courtesy of a kindly older couple and their high-tech irrigation system in the middle of the Arizona desert. I can also attest that parsnips are indeed yummy.
Lies!!!
parsnip denial is one of the signs of something... I think. Or not.. whatever.
Try them you'll like them. They are sweet and tasty. They would make great latkes.
It's funny you ask! Me and my brother used to laugh at parsnips all the time. What is it with them? It's a good word I guess. We even had an imaginary friend named Parsnip Sally. I've never admitted this to anyone before.
We even had a song about a Parsnip Sally. It only had one line, and the goal was to keep singing it louder and louder until our mom would yell at us to shut up. I think our neighbors thought we were crazy.
Parsnip Sally lives!!
I went out to eat the other night and mashed parsnips was on the menu! Wasn't in the mood for peppermint oil with my carrot and potato flavors, so I didn't order it.
And another thing, when you buy one at the store, if the checker is under age 35, he/she will pick it up, rotate it around looking at it from all angles, and say "Now what is this?"
In general I have noticed that those young whippersnapper grocery checkers do not comprehend produce. Just the other day I was asked about some impossibly obvious produce item by some checker who probably wasn't born before text messaging and I gave him my steeliest old lady stare.
I put parsnips in vegetable soup the other day... kind of like them better this way. It kills the peppermint essence.
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