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We should add a paragraph about this plants incredible ability to psych out opponents in just about any sport. I can't tell you how many times i've induced gutter balls out of my bowling partners by casually saying "rutabaga!" as they approach the foul line, it's amazingly effective. I think mainly because most people are unfamiliar with the plant and they loose concentration when they begin to think about what exactly a rutabaga is. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.61.81.89 (talk) 21:28, 9 September 2007 (UTC)

Is this correctly Raphanus sativus or is it Brassica napobrassica? Imc 19:31, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

Raphanus is radish! how could I forget? Imc 19:44, 24 Feb 2004 (UTC)

I found them in the local supermarket labeled as a "yellow turnip". Should this be included somewhere?

I changed the page to indicate that the rutabaga was produced by crossing the white turnip and the cabbage. I'm not sure who was responsible for the cross. It may have been the same guy that crossed radish and cabbage to produce rabbage. However, here is a helpful sight: http://waynesword.palomar.edu/ecoph11.htm


The second paragraph is becoming rather confusing, as more and more data is added in this rambling style. Perhaps it should simply be deleted, and the link to the disambiguation page with its neat table made a little more prominent? --Doric Loon 22:25, 24 September 2005 (UTC)

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[edit] Northeners and Swedes

Any source on the northern English bit? I was brought up in Yorkshire and we always called a swede a swede, and a turnip a turnip (and grew both). Granted, we might have said 'neeps' on Burns night, but otherwise... --83.67.57.244 18:08, 28 January 2006 (UTC)

I've tempered the language here, having asked around a bit. --BarryNorton 08:47, 11 March 2006 (UTC)
I'm from Tyneside and we called them turnips, so I've altered the article to say "much of England" (besides which, it would contradict itself otherwise). I could also say that we called swedes "swedes" and turnips "turnips", but I don't think that would really enlighten anyone! :)
-- Chris (blather • contribs) 23:25, 14 August 2006 (UTC)


This is a regular(ish !) topic of conversation that crops up at work; Where I'm from, in the South of England, a turnip is the smallish (about the size of a medium apple) vegetable, often with a slight purple-ish shading and a swede is the bigger (often upwards of football size) vegetable which is of varying shades of orange inside. Some people I work with, from the North of England refer to these vegetables with the names switched - what I would call a turnip, they call a swede, and vice versa. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phlegmatist (talk • contribs) 15:23, 25 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] the articles on "rutabega" and "kohlrabi" seem to cover the same thing

These should be "disambiguated," yes? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutabega http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kohlrabi

I don't know how to edit, so just wanted to point this out.

bruce

Btoman 16:51, 4 February 2007 (UTC)

Kohlrabi has nothing do do with Kohlrübe (Rutabaga) The Kohlrübe grows inside the earth, while Kohlrabi grows above it.

[edit] How Bizarre

Rutabaga??? Surely this is the name of an African country, or possibly a world music influenced jazz fusion band? there is absolutely no way this is the name of a vegetable, that's just completely nuts. Seriously, this is right up there with Zuccini and Eggplant for sheer weirdness and further proof that Americans just don't speak the same language as the rest of us... Ok, rant over, but surely this in an inherently funny word? --JamesTheNumberless 16:04, 30 March 2007 (UTC)

Hehe, I prefer the term swede – despite (or because) being a Swede. Besides swede mash is EEeevil!! Said: Rursus 10:39, 26 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Turnip vs Swede

I am confused

I have today searched a few Internet pages and all of them including Wiki have Scots eating swedes on Burns night as far as I am aware this is completely wrong, on Burns night, I have always had turnip, never swede, when cooked turnip is orange/yellow coloured and swede remains white. and have never heard of swedes being called neeps, this is a Scots word for turnip, which I have never heard referred to swede. 58.104.150.116 07:17, 21 August 2007 (UTC) Rabhaw

Scottish terminology regarding Swedes and Turnips is confusing. Swedes are the yellow ones. Turnips are white. But in scottish terminology 'Turnip' or 'neep' refers to both of them, and Swedes are much more common, so on hearing about swedes (the correct name for them) I'm assuming you assumed they were the white ones, which are much rarer. Barry m (talk) 20:07, 9 January 2008 (UTC)
It is all very confusing. I don't know the botany nor the customs anywhere but where I live. In Western Norway, kålrabistappe is orange, even if you don't add carrot to it. --Hordaland (talk) 12:54, 29 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] On the Isle of Skye

Reading Wikipedia and looking at a few pictures (Wikipedia and Google images) I'm happy that neeps are rutabaga and not turnips.

The neeps we eat in the clapshot that my grandmother taught me to make on the Isle of Skye are rutabaga. The flesh is a pale yellow verging on orange and not white like a turnip.

Bsdnazz

[edit] Taste?

Is it possible to add a section/paragraph on taste? (eg. comparing it to similar vegetables in terms of taste, texture, etc.?) Natebailey 05:14, 3 September 2007 (UTC)

http://lbn.threat.tv/mrhands.mpg

[edit] Is a Swede really a Rutabaga or just very similar

It seems that some think that a Swede and a Rutabaga are two different things. The confusion is blaimed on American's. Please see the web page below.

http://www.practicallyedible.com/edible.nsf/encyclopaedia!openframeset&frame=Right&Src=/edible.nsf/pages/rutabaga!opendocument


Dennis Hueber —Preceding unsigned comment added by Dmhueber2 (talk • contribs) 16:37, 25 December 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Turnips in Lancashire

I grew up in Lancashire, England, and there we did indeed hollow out 'turnips' for Halloween. Only when I moved South (as far as Leicestershire) did I learn that people called them swedes, for they were the large yellow ones. So, they are yellow turnips, which we simply called turnips. I never met the white turnips though before coming South. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Phlerbert (talk • contribs) 22:30, 24 January 2008 (UTC)

[edit] "Rutabaga in Computer Science" Vandalism

Somebody keeps posting the following:

Rutabaga is a fundamental algorithm used in many computer science techniques, including semantic analysis. [citation needed] The function takes the general form: int Rutabaga(int a, double b, bool c) { return a + 2; }

This is so obviously ridiculous that I'm not even going to bother to explain why. Apparently, I'm the third person to remove this nonsense. I suggest the page ought to be locked so that it doesn't come back Mrchaotica (talk) 19:02, 15 March 2008 (UTC)

Yeah, that's what we should do. Lock this article before more damage is done to rutabega wisdom literature. Myles325a (talk) 07:27, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Frank Zappa and Rutabegas

Personally, I don’t think any article on rutabaga would be complete without mention of Frank Zappa’s immortal hymn to vegetables “Calling Any Vegetable”, which devotes a whole chorus to this wonderful vegetable. This is certainly worthy of a Pop References par, and presumably no one is going to complain that we are lowering the tone of the subject, as happens when such pop references are listed for Occam ’s razor and suchlike. And, after all, we are talking Zappa, and a famous song that is probably the only one dedicated to vegetables.

Btw, rutabaga, sounds doubly funny in Australia, where “root” is a synonym for the 4-letter f word. Myles325a (talk) 07:32, 28 April 2008 (UTC)

[edit] The piccy

This is a hobby horse of mine, but I do wish that piccies like the one of the rutabega shown here, had some kind of reference scale along with it, like a human hand. For those unaquainted with rutabegas, the object depicted could be the size of a grape or a large pumpkin. Myles325a (talk) 07:34, 28 April 2008 (UTC)