"Doris Night" > wrote in message
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> On Fri, 19 Dec 2014 23:36:36 -0000, "Ophelia"
> > wrote:
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>>"Doris Night" > wrote in message
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>>> I went to school in England for a year (6th form) when my dad was
>>> stationed in Germany. Before that I had never tasted rutabagas,
>>> because my dad hated them, and my grandmother had cooked them so often
>>> that he swore he'd never allow them in his house.
>>
>>Where in England? )
>
> Battle Abbey School, in Sussex. Back then (1970) it was an all girls
> boarding school.

Ahhh in the South I am from Yorkshire

>
>>> Anyway, I loved them. Nobody else in school did, so all the more for
>>> me!
>>>
>>> Then I got married, and my husband's mother had cooked them so often
>>> (plus ruined mashed potatoes by mixing them in) that he swore he'd
>>> never allow them in his house.
>>>
>>> Now the only time I get them is when my MIL cooks them, but she ruins
>>> them by mixing in mashed potatoes.
>>
>>Only because you know the right way to cook them) btw in England they
>>are just called swede!
>
> Yes, I think so. I like them mashed with butter, s&p, and a tiny bit
> of brown sugar.

I haven't heard of adding sugar but it sounds ok)

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