Quiz/Coke, Branston etc

[Milz]

--- In HPFGU-OTChatter at y..., "Neil Ward" <neilward at d...> wrote:

> 
> ********Ingredients for Branston Sandwich Pickle:
> 
> I'm not sure why I'm doing this, but here goes...
> 
> "Vegetables in variable proportion: (Carrots, Cauliflower, Gherkin, 
Marrows, Onions, Rutabaga, Tomatoes), Sugar, Vinegar, Dates, Salt, 
Apple, Modified Starch, Lemon Juice, Colour E150d, Spices, Garlic 
Extract"
> 
> [Neil moves away from the keyboard to begin retching over a bucket]
> 
> Rutabaga?  That's a US term for a swede (turnip), I think.  Clearly, 
this product isn't sold in the US, so I wonder why they called it 
that? Curious...
> 

Ummm...before everyone from the US says "Marrows?!??!!! gag....", a 
"marrow" is a zucchini, not the stuff found inside of a bone ;-). It 
took me a while to figure out exactly what a marrow was myself when I 
read a recipe in one of Madhur Jaffrey's book, until I read a footnote 
in another book.

'Rutabagas' is used in the US: it refers to a big turnip with 
yellowish flesh, usually sold with a covering of wax in most grocery 
stores. I've only seen it referred as a 'swede' in gardening books and 
seed catalogues. A 'turnip' here is smaller, white fleshed root 
vegetable.

:-)Milz