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Thread ID: 119009	2011-06-30 21:38:00	A Present from the far South	pctek (84)	PC World Chat

Post ID	Timestamp	Content	User
1213651	2011-07-01 08:08:00	I assume the only way to find out if it's fibrous is to cut into it - by which time I have already paid for it... :( yep. Want a bit of mine?	pctek (84)
1213652	2011-07-01 08:33:00	Now there's an offer I would be happy to accept! :)	johcar (6283)
1213653	2011-07-01 08:45:00	Don't know how far south your friend lives pctek ... but those swedes look about the same size as my radishes :D	SP8's (9836)
1213654	2011-07-02 04:22:00	Tried swede raw? Nice	QW. (15883)
1213655	2011-07-02 09:39:00	Down here in Southland we see signs outside farmer's gates. Swedes $1. We do get a lot of Swedish tourists. I wonder how they feel.	Bobh (5192)
1213656	2011-07-02 21:48:00	Down here in Southland we see signs outside farmer's gates. Swedes $1. That's where these came from. Used be 50c. Still - one of the few cheap things down there.	pctek (84)
1213657	2011-07-03 03:49:00	We do with spud, very nice.	Cicero (40)
1213658	2011-07-03 09:42:00	As a kid I was tortured with having to eat swedes, turnips, parsnip, choko (or however that's spelt). While my tastes have certainly changed to allow a lot of those foul, bitter foods to now seem ok, the swede is something I've never been willing to try again. Maybe as PCTech implies, a decent frost is needed to make them good. I'm in northland, so any swedes I've ever had have probably been home grown and never known a frost. I still look at parsnips in the supermarket with a sense of revulsion... based on experiences 40 years ago!	Paul.Cov (425)
1213659	2011-07-03 10:55:00	Just remember Paul, that the way people cooked veges 40 years ago was a crime against humanity (not to mention the veges). No wonder they were bitter, and mushy, and basically horrible. I resisted planting and eating broad beans all my life until last year, based on what I got served by my parents' generation. I planted them last year, and got a great crop. You pick them young, and only cook them for a short time and they are beautiful. Not sure if that would be the case with swede, but it is certainly true for parsnip - still not my favourite vege, but if you get the right ones and cook them properly, they are really nice. Not like what I used to get 50 years ago!	John H (8)
1213660	2011-07-03 22:18:00	I used to get fed parsnips as a kid and hated them because of the taste. The same goes for brussel sprouts. I recently cooked some parsnips for myself and loved them. I remember, as a kid, being in a swede paddock on a Southland farm with a pocket knife eating raw swedes. I hated cooked swedes.	Bobh (5192)
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