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  • noun Plural form of swede.

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Examples

  • Growing up in Britain, turnips where white and swedes were yellow - I liked them better than turnips - I suspect that what we called "swedes" - very often used as cattle food - were what in the US is called rutabagas. esperanza

    [jennifer rose] What Can't You Get in Mexico? 2008

  • Growing up in Britain, turnips where white and swedes were yellow - I liked them better than turnips - I suspect that what we called "swedes" - very often used as cattle food - were what in the US is called rutabagas. esperanza

    [jennifer rose] What Can't You Get in Mexico? 2008

  • Growing up in Britain, turnips where white and swedes were yellow - I liked them better than turnips - I suspect that what we called "swedes" - very often used as cattle food - were what in the US is called rutabagas. esperanza

    [jennifer rose] What Can't You Get in Mexico? 2008

  • Growing up in Britain, turnips where white and swedes were yellow - I liked them better than turnips - I suspect that what we called "swedes" - very often used as cattle food - were what in the US is called rutabagas. esperanza

    [jennifer rose] What Can't You Get in Mexico? 2008

  • Growing up in Britain, turnips where white and swedes were yellow - I liked them better than turnips - I suspect that what we called "swedes" - very often used as cattle food - were what in the US is called rutabagas. esperanza

    [jennifer rose] What Can't You Get in Mexico? 2008

  • Growing up in Britain, turnips where white and swedes were yellow - I liked them better than turnips - I suspect that what we called "swedes" - very often used as cattle food - were what in the US is called rutabagas. esperanza

    [jennifer rose] What Can't You Get in Mexico? 2008

  • Growing up in Britain, turnips where white and swedes were yellow - I liked them better than turnips - I suspect that what we called "swedes" - very often used as cattle food - were what in the US is called rutabagas. esperanza

    [jennifer rose] What Can't You Get in Mexico? 2008

  • Growing up in Britain, turnips where white and swedes were yellow - I liked them better than turnips - I suspect that what we called "swedes" - very often used as cattle food - were what in the US is called rutabagas. esperanza

    [jennifer rose] What Can't You Get in Mexico? 2008

  • Growing up in Britain, turnips where white and swedes were yellow - I liked them better than turnips - I suspect that what we called "swedes" - very often used as cattle food - were what in the US is called rutabagas. esperanza

    [jennifer rose] What Can't You Get in Mexico? 2008

  • Growing up in Britain, turnips where white and swedes were yellow - I liked them better than turnips - I suspect that what we called "swedes" - very often used as cattle food - were what in the US is called rutabagas. esperanza

    [jennifer rose] What Can't You Get in Mexico? 2008

  • Well, I get a weekly veg box from Riverford Farm, with India-unfriendly non-negotiable contents; every winter, I notice, neeps (aka swedes, or, in the US, rutabaga – and thus the ‘craggy wad’ with ‘the texture ... of wet dog crap’ that sparks the terrible primal scene in Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections) turn up much more than anyone could want.

    Jenny Turner · Stick in a Pie for Tomorrow: Thrift Jenny Turner 2026

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  • I'm in the mood for some lovely creamy swedes tonight.

    February 10, 2014