Turnip lanterns

[Madge]

I've just caught up with this post, I always thought that they were called Punkies and were associated with the villages in the south of Somerset.

Sort of on the same subject, I read somewhere that if you sat in the Church porch at mid-night on All Hallows Eve you would see the souls of all the people who were going to die in the next year pass through the doors into the Church.

Margaret

[Moray_Lass]

I'm just back from the local Asda and everywhere you turn it is pumpkins - the kids wont know what a Neepy Lantern is soon. It is bad enough I have the buy a Swede when I want a Neep as it is

[LesleyB]

The best neep quote I heard recently was on BBC Radio 4 about a month ago, I think it must have been "The Food Programme" or similar - I was almost tempted to drop them a line, but restrained myself, I'm not quite sure why. They really deserved an email or a letter. It was a cookery program I was listening to as I drove to work, in which a lady was describing a recipe she was about to make; She said of the recipe:

"It's called bashed neeps ...but there aren't any turnips in it"

Which caused an incredulous WHIT???? from me as I drove along.... then she carried on....

"...- its actually made with swede"

Crikes - are some folk ignorant or what?? Has she no idea why the recipe is called bashed neeps?? No awareness of where the recipe is from????? No idea of appropriate vocabulary when in that county? I dunno. The ironic thing was that the program went on to talk later about Scots food, so clearly there was an awareness that Scotland does exist as a county with a separate food culture and history, ...but just not in the first half of the program.

Best wishes
Lesley

[Moray_Lass]

Oh you should have posted!

There was a piece on the news once 'justifying' why the supermarkets label everything as being in England - turnips = swede etc. They don't want to confuse the visitors with localised names. What about confusing the locals and the visitors trying to make Haggis Neeps and Tatties?

[joette]

I'm with you when people say "swede" I say "oh you mean turnip" Swede is a variety of turnip as far as I'm concerned.
Also my niece nearly got her head in her hands when she told us she had taken her kids out "trick or treating"

[WilmaM]

Also my niece nearly got her head in her hands when she told us she had taken her kids out "trick or treating"

she'd have made a really scary guiser if you'd succeeded