FourPart;1510376 wrote: That's another thing - I used to live just outside Liverpool. For some reason they call Turnips Swedes & vice versa, so a Turnip Lantern is actually a Swede Lantern. This doesn't just apply to lanterns, it relates to the vegetables themselves. Basically, as far as I'm concerned, a turnip is the one about the size of a cricket ball (and just as hard), and the swede is the yellow one nearer to the size of a football.
the yeller one with a purple skin is a TURNIP its what we put in our Pasties and it's what we used to put our candles in as we couldn't afford pumpkins!
Why does an orange fit in your hand?
Posted: Sat Jun 24, 2017 3:59 pm
by Betty Boop
oh and Broccoli is white, the green stuff is actually called Calabrese.
Why does an orange fit in your hand?
Posted: Tue Jun 27, 2017 1:26 pm
by FourPart
Betty Boop;1510502 wrote: the yeller one with a purple skin is a TURNIP its what we put in our Pasties and it's what we used to put our candles in as we couldn't afford pumpkins!
Glad to see you get it with the turnip magenta, but that other thing is a gourd to us :-3
Why does an orange fit in your hand?
Posted: Thu Jun 29, 2017 8:50 am
by YZGI
:-2
This is what I call a Swede
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Posted: Sat Jul 01, 2017 12:16 pm
by FourPart
Betty Boop;1510594 wrote: Fourpart is wrong on the turnip/swede front :D
Glad to see you get it with the turnip magenta, but that other thing is a gourd to us :-3
Turnip is the smaller one with the white flesh. Swede is the larger one with the yellow flesh.
Why does an orange fit in your hand?
Posted: Sun Jul 02, 2017 7:55 am
by LarsMac
FourPart;1510634 wrote: Turnip is the smaller one with the white flesh. Swede is the larger one with the yellow flesh.
I had to look that up. What y'all call Swedes, we call Rutabaga
We even have a song about them.
Why does an orange fit in your hand?
Posted: Mon Jul 10, 2017 1:59 am
by magentaflame
lol I have to put a photo here when I can . scan a page out of my Australian vegetable gardening book. God I laughed when I saw it, a few days after reading this thread.
:D