Thought I’d ask this because I want to discover more foods from across the world

(Also I shouldn’t have to say this to americans, please state where you are from and state where you are from without acronyms or shortened names because I’ve seen US Defaultism on lemmy and not all of us are going to know your acronyms considering we’re global users)

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca
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    18 hours ago

    mashed Swedes

    what is a ‘mashed Swede’?

    the american word is rutabaga

    Ah! It’s called ‘swede’ because it’s short for ‘swedish turnip’! I’ve never heard it called that. It was a complete surprise (and my nephews are Swedes, so…) ;-)

    I’ve never heard it called Rutabaga either. We call it just ‘turnip’, and up to this moment I never knew what a Rutabaga tasted like, despite having turnip just the other day. Wow! So it’s a Yank word?

    My dad would make mashed turnip with a little nutmeg or cinnamon. It was awesome.

    Anyway, I’m learning SO MUCH today. Thanks!