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it's simple

this is a turnip


and this is a swede

Blimey Shell your almost Scottish, the OH's from Hartlepool.    ;D ;D ;D

I have a recipe for turnip jam, first ingredient is 2 chopped swedes XX Jeannine

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Yes swedes are the big ones usually with a purple top that can live through the winter in the ground and are in my opinion vastly superior in taste.

Plus you can make lanterns out of them at halloween when pumpkins are more like mythical vegetables or so I thought in Aberdeen as a child, and swedes leave a lovely smell when a lit candle is in them, like caramelised swede from the oven.

Scooping them out as a kid wasn't fun but gave me strong wrists................ thats my excuse anyway.

I could`nt care less what people call them all I know is that both are great veggies and I love them

I was always told swede is yellow fleshed and turnip is white.

There is/was a yellow fleshed turnip calle "Golden Ball" I think..
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We have the same north /south divde here. HE calls both  turnips and I know which is which.  ;D

So thinking forward to Burns Night here - which one is the "neep" that goes with haggis  ???

 ;) ;) ;)@ emagggie. I certainly started something with the north/south divide question.....................personally, I still think I won the argument - officially there is a difference between a swede and a turnip - regardless of what you northerners say  ::).

Tricia

turnips

Quote from: ninnyscrops on November 16, 2007, 21:48:29
So thinking forward to Burns Night here - which one is the "neep" that goes with haggis  ???

That one is swede.

yes definitely swedes for haggis

I am loving this debate!  There is two different types though, I would agree!

It is just I call a "swede" a turnip and "turnip" a turnip!  Clear as mud!!!!  But I do know the difference.  :)

And none of that pumpkin rubbish for halloween, a good old turnip (or swede to some of you ;)) does the job perfectly ;D

The one that goes with haggis is most definitely SWEDE. There are fields of them up here and I've never ever heard of anyone having those small TURNIPS with haggis. 

Swedes are 'neeps', which I suppose right enough must be a take on tur'neeps'. It does sound confusing I know.

Also the fact that they are a brassica and not a root vegetable so they must go in the brassica section for rotation.

I'm with you Tricia.    "SWEDE"    ;D ;D ;D ;D ;D

Neeps go with tatties. But what is a neep?

A neep is a nip is a turnip is a swede ;D

 ??? ??? ???    :-\ :-\ :-\      ;D ;D ;D