[SOC] [OT] Food question for Amerikuns

[Bob Baxter]

--- "Ian C. Purdie" <ianpurdie at integritynet.com.au>
wrote:

> The root vegetable "rutabaga" is that a swede or a
> turnip [British expressions]?
 

Being a carnivore, I had to look this one up.

"Rutabaga" (from dialectal Swedish rotabagge) is the
American term, while "swede" is the term used in much
of England. Its common name in Sweden is "Kålrot"
(Cabbage root). It is also known as the "Swedish
turnip" or "yellow turnip". To the Scots, the Irish,
and some of the Northern English it is called
"turnip", or colloquially, especially in Scotland,
"neep"—the vegetable known elsewhere as a turnip being
called a "swede" or a "white turnip" in Scotland. In
the US, rutabagas may also be called "yellow turnips."


Bob Baxter aa7eq