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..
Stu
A relatively obscure root vegetable. Swedes are a bit bland, like turnips. Parsnips are delicious though :-)
Aurelius
I have heard that vegetables exist.
But let's face it, if it aint on a sub, or a burger, who cares?
kazza
Parsnips? Delicious? yeeeeshh!! ;)
I'm with Aurelius, vegetables are what food eats :)
Aurelius
"This is the all stations train to Beenleigh"
Hang on! Beans! I'm on a train to somewhere with beans! Ergh!
Stu
Well, you'll both get very hungry when you come to visit my geek commune, when I start it one day ;-)
kazza
But you can't have a geek commune without the five food groups:
* fat
* salt
* sugar
* caffeine
* alcohol
vegetables don't go anywhere there.. :)
Stu
It'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.
kazza
Yup, don't drink tea or coffee, and drink very little coke. Somehow got through life without a caffeine addiction :)
Stu
I'm envious. I tried to give up caffeine, but I was sleepy all the time and I didn't get much work done.
kazza
*comfort*
speaking of which.. I'm rather sleepie now also .. :)
Stu
Sleep well :-)
Richard
Roast 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."
soss
Swede - 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.
Here 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!!