Whats the difference between a turnip and a swede?

Penny_Watcher

As Wikipedia has the answer to all life's questions :rotfl: first I searched for 'turnip' - see below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnip

Good result so far. Then I searched for 'swede'................

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swede


What the flip!!!

julesgr

turnip....white and purple

swede ....purple and orangey yellow!

turnip....bland

swede....sweet and scrummy!

thriftlady_2

Penny_Watcher wrote:

As Wikipedia has the answer to all life's questions :rotfl: first I searched for 'turnip' - see below

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turnip

Good result so far. Then I searched for 'swede'................

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swede


What the flip!!!

I think Wikipedia is American, and in America a swede is called a rutabaga !. Just to add to the confusion:D

Queenie

Heheheheee, we had this discussion a while back, (blimey, almost a year ago!!) and I'm sure it will come up again at some point.

Anyone interested, here's the previous discussion Turnip/Swede

Queenie

chardonnay wrote:

turnips & swedes are the same vegetable.

:think: Don't think you're right there, never been the same vegetable in our house. Clearly two different types.

Edinburghlass_2

Don't forget neeps

Queenie

thriftlady wrote:

... Swedes are delicious boiled and mashed and served with lots of butter and black pepper...

and a sprinkle of nutmeg please :drool: gotta have a sprinkling of nutmeg :j :j

Use cubed swede along with others when you make a dish of roasted root veg, scrummy!

E'lass - that's just a foreign name for one of the aforementioned :laugh:

saving-grace

I once had a (very polite ) disagreement at the checkout at Sainsbury's with the checkout operator and a supervisor. (I'm an Englishwoman living in Scotland). What they called a turnip, I called a swede. In the end because we couldn't agree they let me have it free!
Afterwards I went back and checked the display -they were labelled as turnips! (but Fatbelly above confirms they were swedes!)

MegS

Another confused household here - my DH is from Sunderland and what I call a swede he calls a turnip and the other one pictured is a baby turnip apparently according to him anyway. Maybe Hadrian's Wall should have been built just north of York to include the north east in Scotland. Mind you there is a group in the north east trying to get the north east classed as its own country like Wales and Scotland.

vivaladiva

Yep, I'm from York originally and we always called a swede a turnip (in fact I don't ever remember seeing a turnip - as in small purple and white veg - as a child). We used to carve them for Halloween - hard work it was too!
Since moving further south I have had to toe the line and call them swedes and carve pumpkins for Halloween, ahh so much easier.:D