Caption Contest (Image Source:" L’empire des légumes") | Newberry

Caption Contest (Image Source:" L’empire des légumes")

Posted on May 27, 2020

Winning caption: “Your honor, this is clearly a case of mistaken identity. I am a parsnip, not a common carrot.” – Arvydas Vanagunas

Image source: L’empire des légumes, 1861. Wing ZP 839 .V42

Comments

Submitted by Hedy Weiss on May 28, 2020

It's been more than three months since I've seen my hair stylist, so what did you expect?

Submitted by Dorothea J Coif... on May 28, 2020

"and thus I beg you, do NOT become a vegetarian!"

Submitted by Sharon Vicker on May 28, 2020

I'm rooting for a vaccine!

Submitted by Fran Wallace on May 28, 2020

"Your Honor, I am firmly rooted in my belief that eating more carrots will not assist with overcoming this terrible pandemic we are going through."

Submitted by Allen Lentino on May 28, 2020

"I'm telling you, this Carrottop comedian is an imposter. I am the one and only true carrottop!"

Submitted by Mary Robak on May 28, 2020

No haircut for months and NOW you tell me you lost my HAT!?!

Submitted by Meg McCoy Fisher on May 28, 2020

Please, enough is enough I can’t stay home anymore my roots need to be done. No one will eat me!

Submitted by Billy Shortall on May 28, 2020

I carrot deeply about all of you exposed to this virus pandemic.

Submitted by Tom Judge on May 28, 2020

We must do everything to root out the new Corona virus, leafing no germ unstoned.

Submitted by Jackie Vossler on May 28, 2020

In this pandemic my roots are showing but my spirit is strong.

Submitted by Ann Roberts on May 28, 2020

To conclude, there is no evidence that the vegan lifestyle will alter human morphology.

Submitted by Donald Geldernick on May 28, 2020

See more with Legumes; not just for redheads anymore. Not just ostrichs that put their head in the ground.

Submitted by Cheryl Boldrini on May 28, 2020

If I don't get to a beauty salon soon, I'll be laughed off the podium.

Submitted by Peter Kuntz on May 28, 2020

“I am a very stable carrot.”

Submitted by Patrick Feeney on May 28, 2020

I didn't mean to do it , Your Honor, but I was a little strung-out at the time.

Submitted by William Hauslein on May 28, 2020

Yes, I believe in vegetarianism, but this is ridiculous.

Submitted by Arvydas Vanagunas on May 28, 2020

Your honor, this is clearly a case of mistaken identity. I am a parsnip, not a common carrot.

Submitted by Jody Blanco on May 28, 2020

“I know the effects of the meat industry on global warming!!! But...there just has to be another way!”

Submitted by max bier on May 28, 2020

"If I am elected there will be a parsley root in every pot!"

Submitted by Lynn Rittle on May 28, 2020

Judge, fruits and vegetables of the jury....we expect the evidence to show unequivocally that the victim was julienned to death by the defendant.

Submitted by Susan Ciano on May 28, 2020

Caption: "Today I may be just a carrot, but I know my roots!"

Submitted by Christopher Burrow on May 28, 2020

We must get to the root of the matter.

Submitted by Ron Richardson on May 28, 2020

"What the vegans don't understand is..........."

Submitted by Steve scott on May 28, 2020

Beware of the rabbits.

Submitted by Martha Ann C Weaver on May 30, 2020

This pandemic is fraying more than just my nerves...

Submitted by Janet Monk on June 2, 2020

"Glasses? Why would I need glasses?"

Submitted by Melissa Creasey on June 2, 2020

Yes. he had long ears and a cotton tail...He ate my family and the radishes next door. Root for me, and sow the seeds for a better future!

Submitted by Daniel L Nichols on June 2, 2020

I've become what I sell at the farmer's market.

Submitted by Linda Gottschall on June 3, 2020

A distraught Mrs. Mirepoix describes the horror of her abandonment to the bottom of the vegetable bin when Cajun temptress Bella Peppa invaded her family forming an Unholy Trinity.

Submitted by Dave Rigney on June 4, 2020

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, let us first consider the untoward barbarity of boiling fresh vegetables, when it has been proven we are perfectly suitable right out of the ground.