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20 Nov 2024, 5:58 pm

That mashed swede in the UK is what we normally call mashed turnip in Canada.

Although what we call turnips in Canada might really be rutabagas, and not white turnips. It's confusing. :?



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20 Nov 2024, 6:06 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:
That mashed swede in the UK is what we normally call mashed turnip in Canada.

Although what we call turnips in Canada might really be rutabagas, and not white turnips. It's confusing. :?


According to Wiki, we (Canadians) use turnip to refer to rutabagas/yellow turnips/swedes. Yellow turnips are a cross between cabbage and the white turnip.

It'd be easier if we just called them yellow turnips and white turnips. :nerdy:


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20 Nov 2024, 6:33 pm

lostonearth35 wrote:
That mashed swede in the UK is what we normally call mashed turnip in Canada.

Although what we call turnips in Canada might really be rutabagas, and not white turnips. It's confusing. :?


Mashed swede? Whatever happened to neeps?



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20 Nov 2024, 7:04 pm

Whatever did the swedes do to deserve being Mashed..? are we at war with Sweden ?
Took me year to figure out what a turnip actually looked like ..then found out they are a good winter veggie ..
Then discovered raw chilled turnip that are peeled and sectioned , taste a bit like Hiccama . Good with dipping sauce
( Ranch) gotta cut off ends first .


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20 Nov 2024, 7:21 pm

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Whatever did the swedes do to deserve being Mashed..?


No one cares when potatoes get mashed. :nerdy:


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20 Nov 2024, 8:01 pm

yeah..yeah..yeah.. you bet if potatoes had personalities they might mind .. 8O ,,and furthermore , how is it you get to speak for those poor Spuds ...?.......... :) ..lolz.. :D


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22 Nov 2024, 12:01 pm

At least one teacher has put up signs in their classroom banning all the current brainrot words kids won't stop using, such as "gyatt" and "skibidi".

I can't picture my own teachers banning words like "rad" and "awesome" or even "gnarly". Back then, it was just slang. Today it's brainrot. Go figure.



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Today, 4:42 pm

^I agree. there's nothing wrong with kids using slang words. It's actually creative and a way in which language naturally evolves. (I had never heard of gyatt and skibidi, but I am obviously old. :))



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Today, 6:51 pm

Jakki wrote:
Whatever did the swedes do to deserve being Mashed..? are we at war with Sweden ?
Took me year to figure out what a turnip actually looked like ..then found out they are a good winter veggie ..
Then discovered raw chilled turnip that are peeled and sectioned , taste a bit like Hiccama . Good with dipping sauce
( Ranch) gotta cut off ends first .


I was reading The Daily Tism, a satire news website that makes fun of people's misconceptions and stereotypes of ND people. In one article a mother of an autistic woman says she was spoiled and impossible to please as a kid, "despite having been repeatedly given plates of mashed swede she didn't ask for". And I was like, "Mashed swede, what is that? I thought swede was just a name for a Swedish person. Then I thought it must be some kind of vegetable, since in the UK they use different names for some vegetables than we do in Canada and the US. And I wouldn't be pleased either if my own mom repeatedly gave me plates of it, because I have one word for all different kinds of turnip-like vegetables. "Barf". :eew: