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[HVC]

Also, why do Brit's call it beetroot? Do you call carrots carrotroot or potatoes potatoetubers?

[Josquius]

What else would we call beetroot?

With carrot the leaves are pretty useless so I guess its not worth specifying you're eating the root.

[HVC]

What else would we call beetroot?

With carrot the leaves are pretty useless so I guess its not worth specifying you're eating the root.

You can eat carrot tops. Good in salad. As far as i know it's as common as eating beet greens. Unless you count chard as beet greens, but then you might as well count parsley as carrot tops since they're in the same family (or celery if you want to get really pedantic )

[Grey Fox]

In a scone?

From the description:

Our No. 1 Balsamic Beetroot & Walnut Tarts make a colourful and delicious festive main course. The crisp shortcrust pastry is filled with chunks of balsamic glazed beetroot and a creamy beetroot mix, topped with crunchy walnut and pumpkin seeds.

As I'm from Liverpool I absolutely love pickled beetroot (traditional accompaniment to scouse). But I think when I've prepared beetroot at home it's always been roasted.

https://maplefromcanada.ca/recipes/maple-beet-scones/

It might be extremely Canadian 😆

[Jacob]

I never had beetroot that wasn't marinated or in a scone.

You can oven-roast beets like all sorts of other vegetables.

[Syt]

Daily Express, 1st Dec 1939:



"Finns Surrender", "Who killed the fuehrer"

 

[Valmy]

WWII must be have been very confusing for the subscribers of that newspaper.

[Sheilbh]

Plus ca change on Russians targeting a railway station and bombing civilian flats and hotels instead though.

[DGuller]

I wonder what the point of publishing such stories is.  Bullshit works best when it's not easily falsifiable, the Finns surrendering part would be easily falsifiable pretty quickly.

[Sheilbh]

I wonder what the point of publishing such stories is.  Bullshit works best when it's not easily falsifiable, the Finns surrendering part would be easily falsifiable pretty quickly.

I don't think it would have been easily or quickly falsifiable in 1939 for all sorts of reasons.

Also this is on the Express. The Daily Mirror's front page on that day was: "FINLAND YIELDS TO REDS: GOVT. GO". I think that may have been the best information available on 30 November 1939 (especially with all the practical and legal restrictions of reporting in wartime).

On 2 December the Express has moved to: "THE WAR GOES ON!"

I'd just add that the Daily Worker (now Morning Star) have: "UPRISING IN FINLAND" (out of interest I kept browsing and see that a few days later their headline is about "SOVIETS LARGE SCALE AID FOR FINNISH PEOPLE'S GOVERNMENT")....plus ca change.

[Syt]

It seems the Soviets immediately "recognized" a Finnish puppet government as legitimate when they invaded. Which apparently got picked up as the Finns having surrendered initially.