Parsnips

[pɑ:snips]

To see or eat parsnips, is a favorable omen of successful business or trade, but love will take on unfavorable and gloomy aspects.

Typist: Louis

Half the parsnips of society are served and rendered palatable with no other sauce. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
Who was the blundering idiot who said that fine words butter no parsnips? William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.

Typist: Louis