Turnips or Swedes

[alid5]

Same question crops up every Burns Night, I grew up eating large field turnips, purplish skin and orange inside and used to carve them out at Halloween. Ones you get in supermarkets nowadays that are called swedes are minute in size and bland in taste.

[ummmm]

Orange flesh = swedes
White flesh = turnips

Argument over....lol

[Zhukov]

Mash carrot and swede,butter,salt & pepper together..delicious with any Roast dinner!

[pdust]

when we were kids we only ever saw purplish skin/orange inside and called them turnips..they were usually big. Then when the shops started selling the little white ones we called them swedes.... cant stand either of them only roasted or chopped up really tiny in stew/casserole though....

[Zhukov]

...with roasted Parsnips,of course..

[alid5]

Burns Dinner last night- Oven-baked Haggis, oven roasted neeps & tatties and mango cranachan for desert yum yum

[Arksided]

'Mash carrot and swede,butter,salt & pepper together..delicious with any Roast dinner!'

I totally agree, not so sure about the Parsnips though... gravy is better ;-)

[alid5]

the story of the man who grew a enormous turnip NOT swede

[Kristal53]

I think it depends where you live -up here in the North a Turnip is large with orange flesh - a swede is a small white peppery thing. I would think being in Scotland that the Turnip is the former rather than the latter

[Slapshot]

No arguement....

Orange Flesh - TURNIP
White Flesh - tasteless swede

[maggiebee]

Well said alid5 - got my grandaughter a large neep at Hallowe'en and we carved it out as I did as a child. Cannae be doing with American imports. Pumpkins? Whit's that a' aboot?
PS used scraped out neep for the soup pot.

[Slapshot]

Scotland.....

[Slapshot]

Ayrshire now live in Aberdeenshire

[maggiebee]

Redhelen - son lives in Peterhead - cauld country!

[tiggerblue10]

I always thought Swede was the orange fleshed bulb type veg with purple skin and turnips were the smaller white fleshed veg with a white and purpley skin.

http://www.guardian.c...5/seasonal-food-swede

http://en.wikipedia.o...le:Turnip_2622027.jpg

[Valeriea]

In Newcastle, we call the one with purple skin and orange skin turnips!

[Valeriea]

Sorry I mean orange flesh.