For some reason Rutabagas are known in NZ as "Swedes", which is odd, because they taste completely different. When I first encountered the word (in a Keith Laumer story, if memory serves, as a description of some alien or another) it sounded wonderfully exotic.
We used to joke about being the Rutabaga patrol back when I was a Boy Scout.
ReplyDelete(Actually, we were the Fox patrol.)
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Please don't call me Ruta.
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It's hard to find a fish
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to name a favoured dish
some are fond of Dill
For some reason Rutabagas are known in NZ as "Swedes", which is odd, because they taste completely different.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first encountered the word (in a Keith Laumer story, if memory serves, as a description of some alien or another) it sounded wonderfully exotic.
Oh, man. 40 years ago I LOVED "A Plague of Demons".
ReplyDeleteI recently found it digitized on the web and found it utterly unreadable.
'Tis a pity.
But yemboen