Pulling beets near Titus, Michigan, from c. 1915.

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Here's a dress made of salad, from Punch, 1878.  "See, there's endive, and lettuce, and spring onions, and radishes, and beetroot."  Nothing wanting, except "perhaps a little more dressing, my dear!"

Here's Indian corn from 1886.

From Class-Book of Botany by Alphonso Wood, 1881.

"If you don't turnip I'll squash you" -- some punning from 1910.

Did you know that "dumb blondes" extend into the vegetable kingdom?  We find our proof in Tilton's Annual Illustrated Catalogue of Seeds, 1893.

"The widow" of Thanksgiving, date uncertain.

"Threw the meat about the floor," from Gleanings from Popular Authors, 1885.

Note her gherkin hosiery.  From Mother Earth's Children by Elizabeth Gordon, 1914.

Here's idleness as the root of all evil.  "Lediggang er roten til alt ondt."  By Theodor Kittelsen, 1898.

"My thoughts to you will ever tend till you find a sausage with just one end."  From 1907.

Jack Frost and a parsnip from Mother Earth's Children by Elizabeth Gordon, 1914.

"Why did you sup on pork?" from Hood's Own by Thomas Hood, 1855.