[Sca-cooks] turnips

[Kirsten Houseknecht]

i was not , in fact, requesting that the entire list drop the discussion
about beets on my behalf, i dont care that much one way or another about
them.
i was just prefacing MY question with a
"and now for something completely different"

i have no idea how to interprete this as "censorship".
as i said i do not own a television, and rarely see any modern commercials,
although i can quote some old ones word for word.

nothing in MY post was discussing extensive removal of bitterness, or
discussing rutabegas in any way

although i do find that older, tougher purple and white turnips are tough,
stringy, and less tasty... as well as slightly bitter.
the ONLY mention i made of any sort to this effect was "youngish turnips,
nice and tender"...... i fail to see how this means i am using rutabegas????

apparently you object to my question, i do not know why... sorry it bothers
you.
Kirsten Houseknecht
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----- Original Message ----- 
> There's a Verizon DSL service ad which features some rather obnoxious
> children complaining to their father about an inability to access
> certain websites, and when the father says he's got their internet
> access set up that way on purpose (the idea being that this would be
> a selling point for parents paying for DSL service, I assume), the
> kids accuse him of censorship. Which is actually pretty irresponsible
> on Verizon's part, since it's not even close to censorship. But I was
> teasing you about your request not to talk about beets anymore.
>
> >this is about beets?
>
> Only about a request that a number of people interested in talking
> about them, not do so. Unless I misunderstood "ok, enough about
> beets..."
>
> >where do Rutabegas come in?
>
> Rutabagas come in inasmuch as some Americans refer to them as
> turnips, and when you say "turnip", an image of a rutabaga appears in
> their minds. This is a phenomenon that has also been known to occur
> in Scotland. But when you hear people talking about all the things
> you can do, or need to do, to abate the bitterness of turnips,
> there's a good chance at least some of them are in fact referring to
> rutabagas.
>
> Which makes them at least peripherally relevant to a discussion on
> armored turnips.
>
> A.
>
> >----- Original Message -----
> >>  >turnips!
> >>  >now properly made "Armored Turnips" is very good eating, but it
depends
> >on
> >>  >youngish turnips, nice and tender
> >>
> >>  Do we still need, with the preponderance of North American
> >>  English-speakers on this list, to be discussing the difference
> >>  between yellow turnips, which are rutabagas and not turnips per se,
> >>  and actual turnips? > >>
> >>  Okay, psycho mode off now... but rutabagas are pretty sharp. Turnips
> >>  (the white ones with the purple shading on their skins) have the
> >>  barest hint of it, and shouldn't need much to ameliorate it.