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ElyDave

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Re: Haggis
« Reply #25 on: 26 January, 2021, 10:40:51 am »
I recently found out that swede is a contraction of Swedish Turnip, so neeps = swede makes sense.
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Haggis
« Reply #26 on: 26 January, 2021, 10:45:47 am »
I recently found out that swede is a contraction of Swedish Turnip, so neeps = swede makes sense.
My dad also refers to swede as turnip which also confuses matters.

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Re: Haggis
« Reply #27 on: 26 January, 2021, 10:50:15 am »
Swede is yellower than turnip.

What about bageys?
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #28 on: 26 January, 2021, 11:11:10 am »
Swede is yellower than turnip.

What about bageys?
Bogeys are yellow too but I've never heard them called turnips.
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #29 on: 26 January, 2021, 11:12:48 am »
I recently found out that swede is a contraction of Swedish Turnip, so neeps = swede makes sense.
My dad also refers to swede as turnip which also confuses matters.

Sweeds were always turnips until I moved down South then I discovered the smaller white ones.  We also used to hollow out and use them as lanterns for Halloween.
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #30 on: 26 January, 2021, 11:13:12 am »
Swede is yellower than turnip.

What about bageys?
In Scotland (or some part of Aberdeenshire at least) what you call a swede is called a turnip. What you call a turnip is called a white turnip.

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Re: Haggis
« Reply #31 on: 26 January, 2021, 11:34:23 am »
I recently found out that swede is a contraction of Swedish Turnip, so neeps = swede makes sense.
My dad also refers to swede as turnip which also confuses matters.

Sweeds were always turnips until I moved down South then I discovered the smaller white ones.  We also used to hollow out and use them as lanterns for Halloween.
I had forgotten the Halloween thing.

ian

Re: Haggis
« Reply #32 on: 26 January, 2021, 11:52:49 am »
I was disappointed in the US to find that the excitingly named rutabaga turned out to be a swede.

Turnips are a variety of Brassica rapa (as is pok choi and of course, rape – which Americans can't say, so have to call it something else– fact fans), swedes are a variety of B. napus, a cross of B. rapa and B. oleracea – basically a cabbage did it with the turnip and they had a big baby.

Kohlrabi is a german turnip, that's pure cabbage.

Broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, sprouts kale, etc. are all the same species (B. oleracea).

Re: Haggis
« Reply #33 on: 26 January, 2021, 12:42:48 pm »
Swede is yellower than turnip.

What about bageys?
In Scotland (or some part of Aberdeenshire at least) what you call a swede is called a turnip. What you call a turnip is called a white turnip.

As I discovered when I moved to Scotland. Though being from Suffolk, I'm quite happy to eat swede.

Oddly enough my wife, who is from Foreign Parts, had never come across the vegetable before. As she rather liked the taste, she asked her mother whether anyone ate it in her home country. "Yes", came the reply. "Prisoners of war."

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Re: Haggis
« Reply #34 on: 26 January, 2021, 12:52:33 pm »
Nope, not here. Neep = swede.
Often to be found lying in fields for sheep feed.
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ElyDave

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Re: Haggis
« Reply #35 on: 26 January, 2021, 01:25:55 pm »
Swede is yellower than turnip.

What about bageys?
In Scotland (or some part of Aberdeenshire at least) what you call a swede is called a turnip. What you call a turnip is called a white turnip.

As I discovered when I moved to Scotland. Though being from Suffolk, I'm quite happy to eat swede.

Oddly enough my wife, who is from Foreign Parts, had never come across the vegetable before. As she rather liked the taste, she asked her mother whether anyone ate it in her home country. "Yes", came the reply. "Prisoners of war."

As mrs P notes, I've heard the same re cattle feed.
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #36 on: 26 January, 2021, 01:28:02 pm »
Bageys are often found in fields of sheep too. In Northumberland.
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #37 on: 26 January, 2021, 01:30:59 pm »
I've always understood 'neeps' to refer to what I as a sassenach call swede.

We used to observe Burns Night for my Scottish mother-in-law's benefit but haven't done so for a few years, since she died. But we have haggis every now and again as the mood takes us - as I mentioned elsewhere recently, it's too good to be eaten only once a year. Always a treat.

Macsween's is good but the best haggis I ever had was from Cockburn's in Dingwall, when we were visiting my wife's relatives up there.
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Re: Haggis
« Reply #38 on: 26 January, 2021, 01:42:55 pm »
Neeps should be swedes, turnips taste different and won't mash up right.

I'm a bit meh on haggis, it's all right, but I wouldn't eat it often (which seems to be the general view).

Davef

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« Reply #39 on: 26 January, 2021, 01:58:14 pm »
English <-> Scottish
Swede. <-> Turnip,neep
Turnip. <->   White turnip,neep

You can convert one turnip variety into the other by boiling with sweaty socks.

Haggis is traditionally served in batter with chips.


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Ben T

Re: Haggis
« Reply #40 on: 26 January, 2021, 03:03:14 pm »

ian

Re: Haggis
« Reply #41 on: 26 January, 2021, 03:06:57 pm »
A [Scottish] friend of mine blamed the English for haggis, on the grounds that the only reason to eat it is to demonstrate sufficient national pride.

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Re: Haggis
« Reply #42 on: 26 January, 2021, 05:19:01 pm »
A whole haggis is too much, really. It's one of those things I like for the first couple of mouthfuls and then it all gets a bit much.
Can eat plenty neeps though, as long as they're covered in black pepper.
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ian

Re: Haggis
« Reply #43 on: 26 January, 2021, 05:26:03 pm »
Yes, I remember the first time I had haggis, I thought it was actually quite nice, but after a modest portion, I wasn't particularly enticed by a second helping. The general view was to get it over with for the year on Burn's night and be done for the year.

That said, I had flatmates who had it on pizza fairly regularly. But they were from Stirling, which made them very special.

Re: Haggis
« Reply #44 on: 26 January, 2021, 05:35:25 pm »
Careful.

My children are 1/4 Stirling, and if you don't watch what you say I'll send them round to yours for the old surprise visit



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Re: Haggis
« Reply #45 on: 26 January, 2021, 05:37:44 pm »
A whole haggis is too much, really.
McSweens* sell ones that are a little larger than a chip shop black pudding and they make a very pleasant meal for one. It says 2-3 on the label, but that's a lie.


*Back inna dawn of time when I was a PSO the shop was but a hop, skip and stagger* from the hovel I called home and I was immensely pleased to see them when they appeared (as if by magic) in our local supermarket a few years ago.



*After closing time. :)
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ian

Re: Haggis
« Reply #46 on: 26 January, 2021, 05:43:01 pm »
Careful.

My children are 1/4 Stirling, and if you don't watch what you say I'll send them round to yours for the old surprise visit




Yeah, that's Stirling. The younger brother went to work in the US, not realising that you needed to be 21 to drink. Not drinking was inconceivable to him, it's the only antidote to being from Stirling.

Anyway, when I went to visit him, his room was full – literally – of booze. Crates, bottles, you name it. He'd turned himself into the Al Capone of illicit hooch for the local university campus. I'm you do know this is probably very illegal to which his response was och, it's only beer. For some reason, he was never caught, though I suspect he could have drunk the evidence if pressed.

Also, not one person in the US could understand a word he said.

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Re: Haggis
« Reply #47 on: 26 January, 2021, 05:45:00 pm »
I love haggis, faggots*, black pudding, white pudding and other offal related products.  About the only things I don't like is tripe and andouillette (the French really don't know how to cook offal).







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Re: Haggis
« Reply #48 on: 26 January, 2021, 05:57:41 pm »
Careful.

My children are 1/4 Stirling, and if you don't watch what you say I'll send them round to yours for the old surprise visit




Yeah, that's Stirling. The younger brother went to work in the US, not realising that you needed to be 21 to drink. Not drinking was inconceivable to him, it's the only antidote to being from Stirling.

Anyway, when I went to visit him, his room was full – literally – of booze. Crates, bottles, you name it. He'd turned himself into the Al Capone of illicit hooch for the local university campus. I'm you do know this is probably very illegal to which his response was och, it's only beer. For some reason, he was never caught, though I suspect he could have drunk the evidence if pressed.

Also, not one person in the US could understand a word he said.

The first time I went up there and met my would-be kids great-grandmother (her son, would-be grandfather died that year...alcoholic, like his dad) I knocked on her door and and seconds before it opened would-be Mrs Flatus said " Shit! I forgot to warn you she's got three fingers missing on her hand!"

Door opened, white haired octogenarian looked at me and proferred a stump with only a thumb and a vestigial little finger to shake. I shook it, but I'm pretty sure she heard my internal scream. She'd lost the fingers in a loom, working in a mill when she was 12.  Didn't seem to affect her badly though and she went on to gas her 8 year old son's pet rabbit as a punishment.

Yeah...Stirling.

Right, better go and give the kids my car keys and your address.

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Re: Haggis
« Reply #49 on: 26 January, 2021, 06:44:43 pm »
A whole haggis is too much, really.
McSweens* sell ones that are a little larger than a chip shop black pudding and they make a very pleasant meal for one. It says 2-3 on the label, but that's a lie.


*Back inna dawn of time when I was a PSO the shop was but a hop, skip and stagger* from the hovel I called home and I was immensely pleased to see them when they appeared (as if by magic) in our local supermarket a few years ago.



*After closing time. :)

McSweens, Bruntsfield...?
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