Swede or Turnip?

[Steven]

Originally Posted by Buoyant Babe

Bottom one is a turnip I would say. Mmmm, turnip...mmmmm


Or even a snadgie, if you are from Sandy-land.



Edit: We had no choice when I were a lad. So that's why the bottom one is a turnip.

excuse me??


when you were a lad???

ffs I knew there was summat wrong

[missshark]

Oh my life...

top is turnip, bottom is swede ... I only ever eat swede with milk mixed in. yummm

[Steven]

Originally Posted by hogen-deifar

The top one (purple and white) is a turnip.

The bottom one (yellowy brown) is a swede.

Now wait for the Northeners come back saying something different. Jaye's Dad and I had this conversation every time I cooked swede with Sunday roast! He's from County Durham!

If you Google images Swede and then turnip the majority agree with the southern name! But having now seen BB's answer, I refer back to my comment with my ex. He called what I call a swede, a turnip!

And so the debate continues!

the white one is the turnip
and the big yellowy one is the swede

I have it from my cook and she will know!!

[Stesh]

The big question is..

Courgette or Marrow?



or is this a Zucchini?

[Tonytsdiver]

Originally Posted by Steven

the white one is the turnip
and the big yellowy one is the swede

I have it from my cook and she will know!!

Swede & Turnip they are the same !

[Steven]

Originally Posted by Stesh

The big question is..

Courgette or Marrow?



or is this a Zucchini?

the top one is a corgette

[Scubee]

Originally Posted by Steven

the top one is a corgette

Yep - I would agree with that. Marrows are bigger (but not as big as the bottom one) and have yellow stripes..... I think.

Identifying a pea and a bean is just as tricky

[aquaholic]

being foreign .. I only know the swede.. and it's the one in the bottom pic..

Now courgettes are zuccinies.. marrows are bigger, but with a smooth skin.. not warty like the huge on in the 'tother pic...

[Richard Mason]

Originally Posted by BJ

Julie is Correct! I had a knife fight with a swede once that left me badly injured. What happened to the swede? It got mashed.

Rutabaga" (from dialectal Swedish "rotabagge", root ram) is the common American English term for the plant, while "swede" (Swede) is the preferred term used in much of England, Wales, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. In the U.S., the plant is also known as "Swedish turnip" or "yellow turnip", while in Atlantic Canada, where turnips are relatively unknown, it is called turnip. In Scots, it is either "tumshie" or "neep", and the turnip (Brassica rapa var. rapa) instead is called a "white turnip". Scots will refer to both types by the generic term "neep" (a contraction of the archaic pronunciation "turneep"). Some will also refer to both types as just "turnip".

In North-East England, turnips and swedes/rutabagas are colloquially called "snadgies". They should not be confused with the large beet known as a mangelwurzel.

Its common name in Sweden is "kålrot" (cabbage root). In Norway it is also called "kålrot", but often also "kålrabi" (which in Sweden and Denmark means kohlrabi). In Finnish, it is called "lanttu", which is derived from the Swedish "planta", meaning plant or seedling. (Finland was for many centuries part of the Swedish empire, and rutabaga has to be planted as seedlings due to the short Scandinavian growing season.)

Come on BJ, if you are going to copy & paste from Wikipedia, you really should acknowledge the fact.

Or is this just another trick of the journo trade?

And yes, the big fat ugly munter is a Swede, the little purple bloke, a turnip.

[The Penguin]

we provincials don't get swedes here, only turnips, those big orange ones, what you could make a lantern out of in the days before we had them pumpkins...