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From: "Rick Parsons" <>
Subject: Re: turnips
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 18:50:50 -0000


There is another very good traditional English root vegetable called
Parsnips. (I am particularly fond of these as it was my nickname at school
;-). They are long, rather like a giant cream carrot but with a sweet nutty
flavour. In either Yorkshire of Scotland they are known as Neeps. (my source
has both ancestries and doesn't know which it came from). I think the word
applied to turnips and swedes as well.

Cheers,
Rick Parsons

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-----Original Message-----
From: Lesley <>
To: <>
Date: 09 March 1999 08:45
Subject: Fw: turnips

>John Storm Roberts wrote:
>
>
>
>>Now I'm thoroughly confused. My wife claims they do, too, say turnip for
>>rutabaga (as well as rutabaga) and white turnip for turnip (mind you, they
>>also say "going inside" for going from the kitchen to the living room!)
>>Either way, it's plain that classic Cornish pasties have been cooked with
>or
>>without rutabaga/Swedes and/or white turnip/turnips. I guess it's the
size,
>>the shape, and the absence of corruptions like carrot and peas.
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>John SR
>>
>
>As an English person living in Scotland, I was confused when I first
arrived
>with the word turnip as I had always known it as the small, white one with
>the purple top - not so in Scotland! The Scots call a swede a turnip.
>
>But that wasn't the only thing to confuse; they call shopping 'messages' -
>I've still not worked that one out! There are lots more - far too many and
>far too OFF TOPIC to repeat!!
>
>Lesley
>
>
>

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