Swede? Never heard of it!
Did you know there is a vegetable called a swede? I didn't!
Skip to tomorrow.
Somehow I started writing this but went to bed and forgot to finish it.. oops! :)
Yes apparently there is a vegetable called a swede, which I'd never heard of, and only heard of it because I looked at the ingredients list on a packet of chunky frozen vegetables. I had to go look it up on google to find out what it was.
It's finally starting to get cold here too..
A relatively obscure root vegetable. Swedes are a bit bland, like turnips. Parsnips are delicious though :-)
May 24, 2005 9:54 AMI have heard that vegetables exist.
May 24, 2005 2:20 PMBut let's face it, if it aint on a sub, or a burger, who cares?
Parsnips? Delicious? yeeeeshh!! ;)
May 24, 2005 8:07 PMI'm with Aurelius, vegetables are what food eats :)
"This is the all stations train to Beenleigh"
May 24, 2005 8:12 PMHang on! Beans! I'm on a train to somewhere with beans! Ergh!
Well, you'll both get very hungry when you come to visit my geek commune, when I start it one day ;-)
May 24, 2005 9:03 PMBut you can't have a geek commune without the five food groups:
* fat
* salt
* sugar
* caffeine
* alcohol
vegetables don't go anywhere there.. :)
May 24, 2005 9:08 PMIt'll be a sort of hippy/geek commune: peace, love, mung beans and broadband! ;-) But you're right - I couldn't get by without those essential food groups. How do you get your caffeine intake Kazza? I think I recall reading you weren't a coffee or tea drinker.
May 24, 2005 9:38 PMYup, don't drink tea or coffee, and drink very little coke. Somehow got through life without a caffeine addiction :)
May 24, 2005 9:51 PMI'm envious. I tried to give up caffeine, but I was sleepy all the time and I didn't get much work done.
May 24, 2005 10:15 PM*comfort*
May 24, 2005 10:39 PMspeaking of which.. I'm rather sleepie now also .. :)
Sleep well :-)
May 24, 2005 10:44 PMRoast parsnips are one of the sweetest, most delicious foods on earth. Swedes I could quite happily do without, though I'll eat them without complaint. They are sort of nondescript.
Some friends of mine had a German student staying with them once. They served mashed turnip with one of the meals and the German student was heard to say: "in Germany, we would feed this to pigs."
May 25, 2005 6:36 AMSwede - Do you know it's amazing calorific value? about 250 calories when boiled per 2 kilos! and is widley used as survival food by the military.
May 26, 2005 11:26 PMHere in the northern hemishere that particular root veg has been of amazing importance throughout history..... having said that, it was used for cattle fodder for most of it .. I wonder why!!