[SOC] [OT] Food question for Amerikuns

[Bruce Shaw]

I always thought they were 'swede potatoes'.

Bruce
AG4NY


On 10/10/06 9:20 AM, "Bob Baxter" <aa7eqham at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

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> 
> --- "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
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