who had turnips at halloween when they were kids?

[stevepeanut]

When I grew up in Washington just outside Newcastle, every kid round our way had a hollowed out turnip with a candle in at halloween. Now I'm in Leeds everyone is in hysterics at my tale cos they have pumpkins here. Anyone else have a turnip, or is it just oop north in Washington?

[Fishtailparka]

I was googling this the other day. We never had turnips, we had swedes.

Turnips are tiny!

Can you still remember the smell from the candle burning it?

[stevepeanut]

I was googling this the other day. We never had turnips, we had swedes.

Turnips are tiny!

Can you still remember the smell from the candle burning it?

 

my sister in law bought me a tiny turnip the size of a tennis ball, I hollowed it out and carved a face in, then put in a small tea-light, it looked mint

[antz]

everyone up here knows about the turnips but no one does it now.

 

i did a pumpkin that looked stoned

[geoffersmasher]

maybe turnips were the poor mans version of swedes then pumpkins

 

well anyway ive heard of none of it neither have my family on the Yorkshire side

 

when i was a kid i didnt have anything just dreesed up like an idiot

 

made me chuckle though

[Fishtailparka]

I think I have sussed it. The names for turnips and swedes get mixed around a lot depending where you live.

Either of them was a poor mans version of a pumkin, cos back then swedes (or turnips) were mainly for cattle feed

[FredTransit]

but turnips are roots and pumpkins are technically fruit!

[Mr Sam]

pumpkins and trick or treating is an american trend that been comercially brainwashed into us - FACT

 

 

 

yes i rember turnips and that was only 10 years ago

[emu]

Ive never heard of doing turnips, only pumpkins

 

But then I live down south, so maybe its a regional thing

[surfingturnip]

[stevepeanut]

pumpkins and trick or treating is an american trend that been comercially brainwashed into us - FACT

 

 

 

yes i rember turnips and that was only 10 years ago

 

In the early 80s, we all had turnips, we knocked on peoples doors and said "penny for halloween"

 

Trick or treat has deffo came from america, no one ever said that where we lived.

[Durham Fiesta]

i've heard of using turnips lol one year we somehow got hold of a massive pumpkin that we needed to carry round in a wheelbarrow cos it was too big to carry

[Guest cortinamad-gonetoo]

we used swedes but i get pumpkins for my kids

[Trevmk3]

i can remember having a swede/turnip as we could only afford one pumpkin that my brother (being older) used to get

 

they were class though