Talk:Turnip

I moved the grocery store image here, because I believe those are beets.

copied a small section off my site http://selfsufficientish.com for the origin so the copywirte belongs to me, referenced it by adding an external link at the end. Regards, Pekinensis 19:29, 11 Mar 2005 (UTC)

Good! I thought they were very red turnips, but I also thought of the possibility they were a particular cultivar, or that my colour-blindess was worse than usual. --PJF ^(talk) 01:13, 12 Mar 2005 (UTC)

No, I'm just had some neurons cross wires up there somewhere. Not sure what I was thinking. Anyway, thanks for cleaning that up. – Quadell ^{(talk) (sleuth)} 01:44, Mar 12, 2005 (UTC)

I know turnips aren't quite as much of a hot-button issue as, say, WP:BLP concerns, but it bugs me to see important claims made without sources in any article. How do we know someone didn't just make up stuff like:

• "In 2005, China was the largest producer of carrots and turnips"
• "Seed prices range from $1.50/lb for garden-variety turnips to about $8/lb for some new hybrid varieties"
• "It is believed in Persia that boiled turnip is good for the common cold."
• "Turnips are also popular in the Middle East"
• "Evidence from around 1500 BC show farmers of India growing forms of wild turnip for the oil from its seeds."
• "Turnips result from a swollen stalk of the plant and are not a swollen root, as popularly believed."

Blah, blah, etc., etc. I don't like just putting a 'citation needed' tag on potential false information, so I'm removing 'em till someone gleans sources. wikipediatrix —The preceding signed but undated comment was added at 20:18, August 22, 2007 (UTC).

The typical southern way of cooking turnip greens was to boil them with a large chunk of "bacon".

Why is bacon in quotes here? Viriditas (talk) 17:39, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply

No idea. In any case, the article on pot likker indicates that salt pork rather then bacon was used, so I've amended it. Barry Wom (talk) 18:08, 10 January 2024 (UTC)Reply