Guest guest Posted September 14, 2000 Report Share Posted September 14, 2000 Hi Lily,in UK we do call plastic wrap " Clingfilm " and aluminium foil " tin foil " .If it is on a sweet wrapper (or cigarette packet)we call it " silver paper. " Does your mum call Swede(rutabaga) Turnip?My Irish mother does.I would ask for " Turnip " at the Greengrocers and mean " Swede " .One day a shopkeeper asked is your mother " Irish or Scots? " my mum says that in Ireland only cattle would be fed what are known as turnips.Ask your Mum if she has any good recipes for " Neeps " Swede is my favourite veg.I mix it up with Mashed potatoes to cover vegetable crumbles. BEst wishes Diane. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted September 14, 2000 Report Share Posted September 14, 2000 - Diane Jarosy <diane16 | | Hi Lily,in UK we do call plastic wrap " Clingfilm " and aluminium | foil " tin foil " .If it is on a sweet wrapper (or cigarette packet)we | call it " silver paper. " Does your mum call Swede(rutabaga) Turnip?My We don't even call the silver stuff by the same name in North America & the UK. In North America, it's spelled aluminum & pronounced ah-LOOM-in-um. In the UK, it's spelled aluminIum, & pronounced ahl-yu-MIN-ium. S'a wonder we can understand each other at all..... Deborah (in Northern Ireland, where turnips & turnips & a staple food, & swedes are people who come from Sweden, & if you asked for rutabaga all you'd get would be funny looks) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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