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Master Bruce

On Wed, 30 Dec 2020 11:22:35 -0000, Janet > wrote:

>In article >,
>says...
>>
>> On 29/12/2020 19:38, Master Bruce wrote:
>> > On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 15:28:13 +0000, S Viemeister
>> >> On 29/12/2020 15:18, Orlando Enrique Fiol wrote:
>> >>> In article > ,
>> >>> writes:
>> >>>> Mashed potato with butter and chicken gravy
>> >>>> Haggis with neeps and tatties
>> >>>
>> >>> I know haggis, but what, pray tell, are neeps and tatties? Might tatties be
>> >>> potatoes?
>> >>>
>> >> Rutabagas (sometimes called wax turnips or yellow turnips)
>> >
>> > Swedes is how I know them.
>> >
>> Swede is what I see in Scotland.
>
> In Scotland (and UK) we have swedes (yellow) and turnips (mostly
>white) , very different flavours. As Sheila says,
> neeps= swede= rutabaga. The traditional accompaniment to haggis is
>mashed swede and mashed potato. As served at Burns Suppers.
> Burns Supper is a big thing in Scotland, annual celebration of the
>Scots poet Robert Burns at which his Address to the Haggis is invariably
>recited.

Note to self: Don't go to Scotland on that day.

> I don't think any American recipe is so beloved that anyone wrote a
>poem to it, but feel free to try:-)

coca cola is nice as it goes to my belly
and made my tongue feel like a bowl full of jelly
(by Johnny Georgy Brown)