Root vegetables

Love swede chopped with carrots and butter, with black pepper. Always called them turnips though.

pen50

A swede was originally a Swedish turnip. Are they rutabagas in the US?

Don't confuse us further! 😂

A swede was originally a Swedish turnip. Are they rutabagas in the US?

I’ve never been irritated by regional differences in naming though dogsmother?

Rosie51

I don't care what you call them as long as you only serve me the yellow/orange one, preferably mashed with carrot, butter and freshly ground black pepper. And none of your purees either, I want a mottled yellow/orange mash. Could eat a plateful all on its own

No onion? 😯

I missed out the Scot who was my grandad who would have said neeps!

I have English Welsh Irish heritage and here in the northwest it is a turnip.

I don't care what you call them as long as you only serve me the yellow/orange one, preferably mashed with carrot, butter and freshly ground black pepper. And none of your purees either, I want a mottled yellow/orange mash. Could eat a plateful all on its own

Georgesgran

Does it matter?
(takes refuge behind the sofa!)

Yes!!

😂

Georgesgran

Does it matter?
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Not unless people are throwing them at you. In that case you need to opt for the turnips, as they will do less damage than the swedes.

HTH

Georgesgran

Does it matter?
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Does it matter?
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My family call swedes, "swedes" - they have yellow flesh and I was told as a girl they were a turnip/cabbage cross

Turnips, in our family, have white flesh and are much smaller. I think they are more closely related to rape.

Both have a purple tinge to the "skin".
The "white" turnips are quite pretty - however I don't think they are as tasty.

The big round turnips I serve with mash and beef. Loads of butter and pepper. A couple of days later the left over turnip is fried with sausages. HP sauce is a must.

Swede yellow / orange
Turnip white
Easy peasy

I call the small, white turnips, (which I love and now have a craving for) white turnips and the large yellow ones, turnips.

I'm in Glasgow and never talk about swedes! 🤣

Baggs

Who eats the greens of neeps as well?

Me! If I can find the nice younger ones!

JamesandJon33

Turnips are little round white things. Swede is large and shaded plum to brown on the skin. Pale orange flesh. We often thad ‘stunge’ mashed potato and swede. Don’t know if it’s a regional thing but we lived in SWales

Swede mashed with carrots and onion is good.
Add salt, pepper, butter.

Turnips are little round white things. Swede is large and shaded plum to brown on the skin. Pale orange flesh. We often thad ‘stunge’ mashed potato and swede. Don’t know if it’s a regional thing but we lived in SWales

Turnips are horrible
Swedes are lovely.

(In my expert opinion)

I am partial to a swede in a casserole or hotpot, but dislike them boiled as side vegetables. My mum used to boil them in chunks for days and I hated them.

Off the point I know, but I quite like turnips - the smaller white jobs. They go very nicely in a lamb stew or casserole, and in any of my thick, multi-veg soups.

Witzend

IMO it’s a regional thing.
But if the big thing I call a swede is called a turnip in Scotland (or wherever), what do they call the smaller thing I call a turnip?
Or is that the ‘neep’ in ‘neeps and tatties?’

A white turnip.

Neeps are orange.

Witzend

IMO it’s a regional thing.
But if the big thing I call a swede is called a turnip in Scotland (or wherever), what do they call the smaller thing I call a turnip?
Or is that the ‘neep’ in ‘neeps and tatties?’

The larger ones - swedes to you - are neeps, as in haggis, neeps and tatties, to us in Scotland. I would just call the little ones turnips.

IMO it’s a regional thing.
But if the big thing I call a swede is called a turnip in Scotland (or wherever), what do they call the smaller thing I call a turnip?
Or is that the ‘neep’ in ‘neeps and tatties?’