Turnips and Swede

Swedish turnip = Brassica napobrassica – a cross between a turnip and a cabbage (according to Wiki!). Orangey flesh.

Turnip = Brassica rapa. White flesh.

Swedes are turnips too though – "Swedish turnips" is their full name. In Scotland they are the 'neeps' that one eats with haggis. The wee white turnips are just turnips.

Thus the confusion.

Turnips are white.
Roses are red.
Violets are blue.

Swedes are orange inside,
ella and Phoenix are correct.

Yum yes me too glass I usually mash it all together though! Ha ha

I love yellow turnip on the top of shepards pie, put one half potato and the other turnip.

Swedes are a bugger to carve out for halloween lanterns. And they smell like a stew burning. Thank the lord for pumpkins!

A BIG difference between turnips and pumpkins! Swede=Swedish turnip=rutabaga. Picture here

in the north purple coloured are turnips, big yellow lantern things are pumpkins! never eaten, only used as lanterns at halloween

Big purple orange flesh are turnips in the North East and I had never had the smaller white swede until I got married as they were not classed as any good when I was at home

Woop woop!

Ella my dear, you can have a gold star, a big red tick AND be allowed to hand out the pencils!

Thank you P, can I have a gold star?

Correct, Ella

How sad......just googled it and the orange fleshed are swede and smaller white fleshed are turnips.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD2iYSKHHzo

I've always lived in the NW and the smaller white ones have always been turnips and the orange fleshed big ones are swedes.

I don't care what they are called they are still a b---er to peel !!

Having lived in the South so long I now call turnips (big orange flesh and used for lanterns) swedes

Same hear gracesmum turnips ,big orange flesh and used for lanterns x

Phew, glad it's not just me. I was beginning to wonder if that was the case.

My experience too grace .. the lanterns..our neighbours in London thought we were very odd when we put the lanterns in the window!

Not in Scotland - they were all Neeps (turnips) although actually I never saw the little white sort. A turnip was a big orange fleshed globe useful for turnip lanterns at Hallowe'en and an integral part of any Burns Supper = Haggis, Neeps and Tatties.

I think it's more east west . Swedes are orange flesh. Turnips are yuk!