betty swollocks
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That's what a friend's friend, newly over from Ghana, called a parsnip, when confronted with one for the first time.
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The 'sister of carrots'
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It's a strange vegetable. We get through quite a lot, and have lots of delicious ways of preparing them. 
But there are a lot of people who don't like them. Possibly one of the least popular vegetables amongst a sizeable section of the population, all told. Perhaps we should have a poll.
But there are a lot of people who don't like them. Possibly one of the least popular vegetables amongst a sizeable section of the population, all told. Perhaps we should have a poll.
Arch
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Odd fact: you can get salted banana chips.
Odder fact: they taste like parsnip.
Odder fact: they taste like parsnip.
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PBancroft
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Then what's Salsify?
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Technical point - they're probably Plantains. Very like bananas, but they don't get yellow and sweet, and they're bigger.
I do like the salted ones (like crisps but they count as a portion of veggies!! What's not to like??)
Honey coated banana chips are the deliciousness!!
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Jonathing
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Swede, the b@stard offspring of turnip and parsnip.
That's not biologically possible, but I get your drift. Don't say that north of the Border on Burns Night, though...
Last Sunday we were out for a walk, and at one point we passed field after field of mangel-wurzels. Yep I know they were being grown for livestock feed, but now there's a resource worth thinking about.... anyone tried one?
My boyfriend has an Austrian father and a British mother, and grew up bilingual in English and German. His Dad was over visiting us and we went out for a meal. Now his Dad's English is pretty good, after all he hears a good deal spoken, but it is still a second language for him. So there was something with parsnips on the menu, and he asked what a parsnip was. Boyfriend for some reason couldn't remember/didn't know the German for parsnip, so we ended up saying "it's like a carrot..." which isn't actually that useful as it may have the same shape as a carrot, and grow like a carrot, but it doesn't taste like carrot...
(Roast parsnips, yum...
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(Roast parsnips, yum...
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bauldbairn
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....maybe even more so if Q.I. is to be believed. I'm sure Mr Fry mentioned that the original carrots were not orange but parsnip coloured. The orange colour was cultivated by Dutch farmers to honour the Dutch royal family some years ago.
Does anyone know if this is true???
Arch
Married to Night Train
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....maybe even more so if Q.I. is to be believed. I'm sure Mr Fry mentioned that the original carrots were not orange but parsnip coloured. The orange colour was cultivated by Dutch farmers to honour the Dutch royal family some years ago.
Does anyone know if this is true???
It's what I'd always heard - before QI.
There are purple strains too, I think.
bauldbairn
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Must be true then!!!
It's just the Q.I. researchers aren't always 100% right with their facts. I've noticed one or two mistakes with subjects I know something about(and there aren't many
). Still love the show though!! 
