what are they?

[MKG]

Crikey - and you lot thought me and Oldfella were daft

Mike

[citizentwiglet]

When you go into supermarkets in Scotland, they do call Swedes swedes and turnips turnips though....and turnips are madly expensive in comparison.

I wonder if the 'neeps' confusion will die out with the new generation of Scottish children who have access to both? My sons are both Scottish born, and the eldest knows that the big one is a swede (but perhaps that is because he has a Welsh mammy). The little one doesn't know, or care, what it's called just as long as it isn't too hot to shovel a handful into his gob.

In Wales as a child, you never got turnips for sale. They were just for animal food.

Scotch pancakes are pikelets, and are not to be confused with the type of pancake you have on pancake day, which is a crepe. I have no idea what a barm cake is.

[JulieSherris]

Twiggy, in Lancashire, a barm cake is a bap.... a bap is a flattish soft roll, not necessarily with sesame seeds, usually with a dusting of flour. Hubby calls them bread buns, I say they are baps & now we are in Ireland, I've won because they're baps here too!
Oh, then there's the stotties, not to be confused with baps, or oven bottoms - or are stotties oven bottoms? I can't remember!!

[Green Aura]

I have only one word to add to this debate - muffins (and I don't mean those sweet American things).

Actually Ive got more than one word (who'd of thought that, eh )

Pikelets are thin crumpets, made from the same yeasted batter. Scotch pancakes are are sweet and not yeasted (as far as I know) they're cooked on a griddle (girdle). Pikelets and crumpets are cooked in rings.

Oh, and just for the record from N. Scotland by way of Derbyshire and Gtr Manchester, swedes are big and purple/yellow and make me and turnips are small, sometimes purple-topped - as in Purple-top Milan and are delicious raw, but cooked also make me

[homegrown]

Ok I quit I am more confused than ever and since we are not on the topic what are numpty's or dear I ask?

[frozenthunderbolt]

numpty's are silly people, often uncoordinated

[frozenthunderbolt]

So what's a mangel-wurzel then ?

A mangold - very large turnip- sugar beet apparently 90% water (or some such) but as the farmers who use them to put weight on stock say "but what magick water"

[Millymollymandy]

numpty's are silly people, often uncoordinated

Oh that will sum me up nicely then, see my 'klutz' thread.

Numpty is just a word I have learnt from forums in general, I think it means dumb/thick/stupid.

[Millymollymandy]

griddle (girdle)

And a girdle is something our grandmothers used to wear!!!

[Millymollymandy]

Oh, and just for the record from N. Scotland by way of Derbyshire and Gtr Manchester, swedes are big and purple/yellow and make me and turnips are small, sometimes purple-topped - as in Purple-top Milan and are delicious raw, but cooked also make me

Maybe it depends which side of the Peaks you are on cos my ma in law is from Derbyshire/Notts and calls them the other way round.

[phil55494]

Muffins are muffins, baps are usually floury and oven bottoms are a bit flatter than either but the best of the lot.

Like Greeen Aura, sweedes are orange/yellow and turnips are white and why anyone would want to eat them is beyond me. and I'm from Gtr Manchester, now just over the border into Derbyshire.

Ideally a sweede would be tall, blonde and good looking

[Thomzo]

A neep is a rutabaga/swede, hard orange flesh, could hammer in a nail with one, a bugger of a vegatable to cut up .... these are what we carve out as lanterns at halloween... we call them turnips.

Erm, isn't that a pumpkin?

Zoe

(rushes off quickly before being shouted at)