Turnip/Swede?

Queenie

Curry_Queen wrote:

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There's another root veg in the family too called rutabaga or something? I wonder if that's more like a swede

That is what the US call swede

Quackers

I thought turnip was purple & white skinned like this:



And swede was this:



Although I think thats purplish (?) too I suppose

When I did a search for these pics both pics came up whether I searched for swede or turnip :rolleyes: How confusing!!

I love both swede and turnip 'specially in a nice root veg casserole but swede is my absolute favourite veg in the winter - oh, and parsnips:D

arkonite_babe

Quackers
The one in your picture which is called swede is what we know over here as turnip!

Now do you see where confusion arises :rotfl:

Curry_Queen

Aye, the same as us AB, and I don't ever recall actually seeing any turnips as they're called in that picture up north, or at least my mother never bought any if they did!

Quackers

Well I 'aint doing the shopping for you 2 then. I'd get it all wrong :rotfl:

It must be the wine I've drunk thats making me so bloody curious about a couple of veggies.

I was born in London and lived there for 15years. Then I moved up to the midlands. Me & hubby always argue in the supermarket about whether its baps or rolls we are buying Our kids go and look at DVD's when we get to the bread section

nearlyrich

I call these veg the same as Quackers pics, both get mashed with carrot or roasted like parsnips, used in stews and casseroles etc. Turnips are great with haggis too (neeps)

Anne_Marie_2

Appreciate definitions Queenie. Much appreciated.
Just that some of us were brought up to call veggies various things - and doubt it will be knocked out of us now - the really old purply skinned things in Scotland are called turnips. Local name for the purple skinned one is neap, but have also known the word tumshie. Hence the words, "you are a neap", or "you are a tumshie" .............don't be too offended. Just normally means you quite haven't grasped what's been said/going on, or you have done something a bit silly.
A Swede is someone who comes from Sweden - and much as I can take the mickey out of a very good friend from there, calling her a swede would be lost on her. She can well understand being called a neap though!

Tharweb

Quackers wrote:

Me & hubby always argue in the supermarket about whether its baps or rolls we are buying Our kids go and look at DVD's when we get to the bread section

Don't get me started on bread...now there's barm cakes, oven bottoms, baps, rolls...I've even heard them called tea cakes now to me that's something completely different with raisins. :rotfl:

Quackers

Tharweb wrote:

Don't get me started on bread...now there's barm cakes, oven bottoms, baps, rolls...I've even heard them called tea cakes now to me that's something completely different with raisins. :rotfl:

:rotfl: we could talk bread all night. But we're much too sensible for that :beer:

Oatcakes are another one. They are something completely different here in Staffordshire than anywhere else.:rolleyes:

Queenie

Anne_Marie wrote:

Appreciate definitions Queenie. Much appreciated.
Just that some of us were brought up to call veggies various things - and doubt it will be knocked out of us now - the really old purply skinned things in Scotland are called turnips. Local name for the purple skinned one is neap, but have also known the word tumshie. Hence the words, "you are a neap", or "you are a tumshie" .............don't be too offended. Just normally means you quite haven't grasped what's been said/going on, or you have done something a bit silly.
A Swede is someone who comes from Sweden - and much as I can take the mickey out of a very good friend from there, calling her a swede would be lost on her. She can well understand being called a neap though!

LOL A_M ... I indulge in "tatties and neaps" .... on Burns Night

As for regional variations in the names of vegetables ... :rotfl: .... :think: G/mother Scottish; Mother Yorkshire ... father Geordie .... :think: ... :eek: I'm the only Southerner in my family!!! :eek: ....