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I personally feel that the older tradition of turnip carving is at least 20 times more scary than silly pumpkin carving. (upload.wikimedia.org)

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[–]Foxblood 8 points9 points ago

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I think I saw that guy on the Luas the other day. Scary bastard.

[–]lordofthejungle 6 points7 points ago

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I'm gonna say it: Sean Gallagher.

[–]mervynskidmore 5 points6 points ago

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Take it back, that's an insult to turnips.

[–]lordofthejungle 9 points10 points ago

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Haha, poor turnips! I've upped the stakes.

[–]frenchphrasebook 5 points6 points ago

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You know the way everything is bigger in America? Well not turnips. They only have tiny little beetroot sized turnips. Surprised me.

[–]sus_bear 4 points5 points ago

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We call them turnips. They're actually swedes or Swedish turnips.

[–][deleted] 3 points4 points ago

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Rutabaga I believe is the technical term. Only us Irish and a few areas in England call them turnips. Rutabaga or Swede/Swedish turnip everywhere else.

[–]redplaid 2 points3 points ago

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Yeah. I have wondered why. I'd read old books that would mention turnips but when I see them at the grocery store, they are always so tiny.

[–]Monster11 0 points1 point ago

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Haha, I'm from Canada and it's the same way here. I googled Turnip to be sure it was what i though (I'm french canadian), because that turnip up there is so scary and would be impossible to produce in North America !!

[–]redplaid 0 points1 point ago

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hehe True.

[–]ContiGhostwood 2 points3 points ago

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Wow! Agreed.

[–]Nijuro 2 points3 points ago

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That looks like a redead.

[–]SnazzBot 1 point2 points ago

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Started buy the Irish, but when they got to the U.S. there were no turnips so they used pumpkin.

[–]hundredhands 5 points6 points ago

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They didn't have white onions because of the war. The only thing you could get was those BIG YELLOW ONES.

[–]Torger083 10 points11 points ago

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"Now, to take the ferry costs a nickle, and in those days, nickles had a picture of a bee on them. 'Give me 5 bees for a quarter,' I'd say..."

[–][deleted] 7 points8 points ago

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We didn't call them bananas back then, we called them "yellow fatty beans".

[–]PaulAtredis 1 point2 points ago

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It takes ages to carve a turnip as well with your run-of-the-mill kitchen knives! When I was a kid, my sister and aunt took hours to carve a simple "jack-o" face into one; hollow it out and insert a lit candle.

I thought it would be funny to insert a lit banger ;) I think she was in tears for about half an hour.

[–]strategosInfinitum 1 point2 points ago

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Voldemort!

[–]mervynskidmore 1 point2 points ago

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Did you hear about the onion's funeral? There was a big turnip.

[–]EndOnAnyRoll 0 points1 point ago

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A cool glass of turnip juice.

[–]Owwmykneecap 0 points1 point ago

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looks like a redead from ocarina of time.

[–]Ocrasorm 0 points1 point ago

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The man in the turnip mask.

[–]seanachan 0 points1 point ago

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Burn it! Burn it with fire!

[–]JesusJuice45 0 points1 point ago

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Then eat it.

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