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the vegetable so humble it got fired and replaced by the pumpkin at Halloween.
means A round root vegetable with white-and-purple skin and a slightly peppery flesh, eaten cooked or raw and long used as both food and livestock fodder.
from A homegrown English compound: 'turn' (probably from the way it looks neatly turned on a lathe, smooth and rounded) plus 'nepe,' the old word for the plant, which goes back to Latin 'napus,' a kind of turnip or rape. So the name quietly says 'the round nepe.' That older 'nepe' also survives in 'parsnip.' And before pumpkins crossed the Atlantic, it really was hollowed-out turnips that the Irish and Scots carved into lanterns to ward off spirits — so the essence's joke has roots in fact.
- original jack-o'-lantern
- Irish carved scary faces into turnips first
- ancient diet
- Romans hurled them at unpopular public figures
- livestock fuel
- bred huge to fatten sheep through winter
- name origin
- "turn" plus "neep," meaning round neep
- fast grower
- edible roots ready in under two months
rutabaga vs turnip — two different root vegetables often confused; turnip is brassica rapa, rutabaga is brassica napobrassica
neeps and tatties — traditional scottish dish pairing mashed turnips with mashed potatoes
stardew valley turnip — winter seed crop in the farming game worth 80g each