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[Duque de Bragança]

I feel like what's happening in Belarus is important. A crowd waiting/building for the opposition candidate:

What's up with the arrested Russian mercenaries from the group that usually do Putin's dirty work aroung the globe? Narrative assistance from Russia?

Maybe, but OTOH Putin and Lukashenko always have had a rocky relationship.

[Admiral Yi]

[Josquius]

Argos is to stop printing its catalogue.

Truly the end is nigh

[merithyn]

Looking for a recipe for pickled beets and eggs. Anyone have a favorite?

[Sheilbh]

Looking for a recipe for pickled beets and eggs. Anyone have a favorite?

Never made it - but once you've pickled beetroot you can have it with my people's national dish! Make a pot of scouse!
https://www.theguardian.com/food/2019/oct/30/how-to-make-the-perfect-scouse-stew-hotpot-recipe-felicity-cloake

[merithyn]

Oh, now that looks delicious... but what the hell is a swede?

[The Brain]

Oh, now that looks delicious... but what the hell is a swede?

[Sheilbh]

Oh, now that looks delicious... but what the hell is a swede?

Swede or a turnip (baby swedes)?

[merithyn]

Oh, now that looks delicious... but what the hell is a swede?

Oh, now that looks delicious... but what the hell is a swede?

Swede or a turnip (baby swedes)?

So Swedes are turnips. Got it.

[Richard Hakluyt]

Interesting article about swedes, turnips and neeps :

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/jan/25/neeps-swede-or-turnip

I just call them (and any other vegetable I disapprove of) turnips. This annoys my wife who insists that swedes and turnips are very different 

[Tonitrus]

So Swedes are turnips. Got it.

Like Hungarians are beets.   

[The Brain]

So Swedes are turnips. Got it.

Like Hungarians are beets.   

"-Trianon, Clarice..."

[garbon]

Oh, now that looks delicious... but what the hell is a swede?

Oh, now that looks delicious... but what the hell is a swede?

Swede or a turnip (baby swedes)?

So Swedes are turnips. Got it.

I'd say they are rutabagas.

[Sheilbh]

Interesting article about swedes, turnips and neeps :

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2010/jan/25/neeps-swede-or-turnip

I just call them (and any other vegetable I disapprove of) turnips. This annoys my wife who insists that swedes and turnips are very different 

So I knew them as neeps. But have always thought they were turnips and wouldn't know the difference with a swede. I thought they were all the same too

[Richard Hakluyt]

The definitions appear to vary by area, so I thought that swedes were the small ones and turnips the big ones.....but that conflicts with your info. But, as a child I lived in Northern England, Southern England and Scotland (which I think you did as well); so one ends up with several different definitions and completely confused.