You can't venture far in Scotland without coming across neeps - a staple of Scottish cuisine. This distinctive root vegetable crops up in several Scottish recipes, and is also eaten as an accompaniment to other dishes. But what exactly is it?
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What exactly are neeps? (Are they the same as turnips?)
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And another difference between the turnip (white) and the neep (swede)is that the former has no neck. The leaf stems grow straight from the top of the roundish root. The root of the swede narrows into a neck, and its leaf stems grow from the neck.
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