Swede - north south divide?

[Mustang]

You lot took to the Swede thread without batting an eye...

Damn!! Did I miss a thread on Swedes....?! Lived in Sweden for 4 years so always interested!!

[Rantor]

It just occurred to me that we may have another north/south thing here.
You lot took to the Swede thread without batting an eye...but where I come from no one ever calls them swedes - they call both turnips and swedes, turnips!

In fact, no one ever really seems to know what a swede is!

Anything round, yellowy/orange that you mash is called turnip.

Is this yet another lazy, uneducated northern thing?

Are you southerners talking about swedes on a daily basis? Are turnips a poor mans swede?

No, you are right - they are called the complete opposite in the north. In Scotland a Turnip/Neep/Tumshie is what the southern anglos call a swede.

It is actually nigh on impossible to buy them outside of Britain as they are considered cattle food in most other countries. The upshot of this is that it becomes a luxury imported good in specialist shops around burns night - 3 euros for a neep!

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It is actually nigh on impossible to buy them outside of Britain as they are considered cattle food in most other countries. The upshot of this is that it becomes a luxury imported good in specialist shops around burns night - 3 euros for a neep!

No, they have other names. 'Cold rabbi' comes to mind. Get them in Denmark, no problem, and they make this thing that is much like rice pudding except really sweet. 'Is lovely.

You might have a problem buying swedes in Germany, but that is a cultural thing, to do with a famine, which is IIRC the plant was invented to help survive...