Pumpkins

[MackneyHackem]

Snartas we used to call them in Darden

"Bonny night" we called it as in bonfire night

Well exactly.

 

[Junior Birdman]

Snartas we used to call them in Darden @Amnorrageordie will back me up
Sure we used to raid the farmers field up the Green Drive anarl

Seems everyone had a different name for them! I'm a Shields lad and always snadgies for us. Farmers at Cleadon must have taken a battering. It was like a special ops mission in the dark!

 

[Butcher's Coat]

For fuck's sake lads, can't believe you let him get away with this. It's not technically a swede, it's a f***ing turnip.

Sorry marra, but the lad is correct.
Those big purple-topped veg with the orangey innards that bend spoons and stink the place out when burnt are SWEDES.

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SWEDE.

 

[Dave Herbal]

Swedes in instead of pumpkins aye, but I can’t abide by anyone calling bonfire night “bommy night” ffs.

It will have been the illiterate hillbillies calling it bommy night. They should be grateful to us townies for showing them the secret of man’s red fire.

 

[Carpets]

Correct, pumpkins were not even invented until 1993 IIRC

 

[Spennymackem1981]

one of the better yank imports it was a right fuck on carving a bastard turnip and i would not want that fr my children

 

[Dan The Man]

I was skint so I used a big potato once

How did that even work

 

[The Snockerty Friddle]

I was skint so I used a big potato once

I once used melons as the shop had no pumpkins left.
Way easier to hollow out.

 

[Thackeray]

Sorry marra, but the lad is correct.
Those big purple-topped veg with the orangey innards that bend spoons and stink the place out when burnt are SWEDES.

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SWEDE.

No they're not, in the North East and Scotland they're turnips. If your want to use southern definitions that's your look out.

Haggis, (tur)neeps and tatties, are Brown orange and white. Southerners misname them, not the other way round.

 

[Mango killa]

Swedes in instead of pumpkins aye, but I can’t abide by anyone calling bonfire night “bommy night” ffs.

What ????everybody called it that, cannot comment about now though.

 

[Amnorrageordie]

Snartas we used to call them in Darden @Amnorrageordie will back me up
Sure we used to raid the farmers field up the Green Drive anarl


"Bonny night" we called it as in bonfire night

We did aye and it must have been a dardun thing but didn't we call them black, or jack shiney Maggies?

 

[Monkton mackem]

Sent on your way off into the night by your parents to knock on the doors of strangers with just a small vegetable, a candle, a pack of matches or lighter and a highly flammable costume.

Great times!

 

[ravydavygravy]

Pumpkins are responsible for millenials, the gays and obesity.

Don't forget the decline in Alcohol sales, also.

 

[Butcher's Coat]

No they're not, in the North East and Scotland they're turnips. If your want to use southern definitions that's your look out.

Haggis, (tur)neeps and tatties, are Brown orange and white. Southerners misname them, not the other way round.

Sorry Marra, but I grow the fuckers on my allotment and on the seed packet it quite clearly says SWEDE.
I also grow turnips by the way.
So I do know the difference, maybe you don't .

 

[becs]

Swede has always been called turnip in the north east and Scotland even though it's not horticulturally correct.

I was an adult when I realised a turnip is actually a small white root vegetable and not a swede.

 

[Butcher's Coat]

Swede has always been called turnip in the north east and Scotland even though it's not horticulturally correct.

I was an adult when I realised a turnip is actually a small white root vegetable and not a swede.

Ahh someone knows the score

 

[The Snockerty Friddle]

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You cant go carving turnips, you'll scare the bairns.....

 

[Thackeray]

Sorry Marra, but I grow the fuckers on my allotment and on the seed packet it quite clearly says SWEDE.
I also grow turnips by the way.
So I do know the difference, maybe you don't .

No mate, I don't care what you grow. If you are buying a packet of seeds from a Southern producer then they will be labelled as swedes. Supermarkets insist on doing this too. But that doesn't mean that to people in the North East and Soctland they're not turnips. Because a southerner (or southern producer or retailer) is using a different definition doesn't make their definition right and ours wrong.

 

[Harry Angstrom]

No mate, I don't care what you grow. If you are buying a packet of seeds from a Southern producer then they will be labelled as swedes. Supermarkets insist on doing this too. But that doesn't mean that to people in the North East and Soctland they're not turnips. Because a southerner (or southern producer or retailer) is using a different definition doesn't make their definition right and ours wrong.

He is technically right, you are also right but wrong.

 

[Mainze]

How did that even work

Badly is the answer