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jmcquown[_2_]

On 12/21/2012 12:33 PM, Ophelia wrote:
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>
> "Janet" > wrote in message
> ...
>> In article >, lid
>> says...
>>>
>>> "S Viemeister" > wrote in message
>>> ...
>>> > On 12/21/2012 9:20 AM, Janet wrote:
>>> >> In article >,
>>> >> says...
>>> >>>
>>> >>> On 12/21/2012 6:14 AM, notbob wrote:
>>> >>>> On 2012-12-21, Ophelia > wrote:
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>>> We like them mashed with butter.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>>> Yep. A good intro is to cook and mash them WITH potatoes. Proveds
>>> >>>> a
>>> >>>> nice creaminess.
>>> >>>>
>>> >>> Tatties & neeps
>>> >>>
>>> >> <purist intervention>
>>> >>
>>> >> When serving haggis the tatties and neeps should be mashed
>>> >> separately.
>>> >>
>>> > True.
>>>
>>> Did anyone suggest the tatties and neeps here would be otherwise?
>>
>> Jill did,in the post which you re-quoted above.
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> Jill, who had a Scottish Grandmother was just talking about 'tatties and
> neeps' which she knows very well are the Scottish way of describing them.
> She said nothing about 'mashing them' together, because she knows VERY
> well, the Scots don't do that!
>
> Jill?

I definitely know that! I also know neeps are rutabegas, not turnips.

Jill