turnip/swede

Is one British, the other Scandinavian? Has this question been asked 'ad nauseAm'?

(Sorry. Do NOT reply, please.)

Don't know and don't care. Alls I know is they're left lying around the paddocks here for winter feed stock. Plus I used to feed my dogs on a combo of cooked swedes, chopped bullock's hearts and eggs. Very happy dogs.

Perhaps you meant - Freddie the Swede? He'd dead now. He was an illegal immigrant that I knew a few years back. Jumped ship in Melbourne for a better life and ended up in a small fishing town here in Tasmania. Hard man but fair. Hated a drink as well.

Perhaps you meant - 'turnip?. Don't know him at all. He's on a base station on the frozen continent somewhere. I've seen people on here post rumour and innuendo amounting to a supposed fondness for sexual congress with emperor penguins, but who knows? Each to their own.

The Beeb might put on here a "Have Your Say" topic on Swedes and Antarctic turnips which are small.

Food related and in danger of serial poster accusations:

I've never tried - lutefisk.

Swedes are called rutabagas here. Turnips are purple and white and an entirely different vegetable.

Both are good freshly steamed in the traditional seasonal 7-veg couscous.

Swedes are Rutabagas. The require some cooking; boiling is fastest.
A turnip is a turnip and really doesn't require cooking if shredded for a salad. Can be roasted, steamed, or boiled, too.

When I lived in New Zealand the old Bettys told me I could find a husband if I learned how to cook a Swede (!). Until that time I hadn't heard about them. So I looked in the grocery market --- Rutabagas!