Is This Vegetable THAT Uncommon?

[Julie's Haircut]

I've been eating these since my mother fed them to me as a kid. I buy them five or six times a year, usually for a stew, but sometimes to roast with potatoes and carrots. More often than not, it seems the supermarket cashiers, either young kids or even older adults, have no idea what they are and they have to ask me or another cashier.

I already stumped a cashier for 2016 earlier tonight. Nowadays I'm disappointed when they CAN identify them.

Here's a nice corkscrew one I bought last year.

 

[NewRVLady]

No clue
And I am a veggie lover and have vegetable gardens for years

 

[Kriii]

turnips

 

[mnrose]

Nope. Hubby grows them in his garden. Pretty normal vegetable. And, NO, it's not a white carrot. LOL

Parsnip people. Parsnip.

 

[MIGrandma]

Parsnip, I think?

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

I am really not sure what they are, but I think I have seen something like that before.

 

[Teresa Pitman]

Huh, people really don't know what a parsnip is? I will say that at one of my cousin's weddings, my uncle (a pure meat and potatoes guy, I guess) picked up a piece of broccoli on his plate and asked me what it was. Who doesn't know broccoli??

 

[WebmasterMaryJo]

I know broccoli, but I have never eaten a parsnip that I know of, and I don't think I've eaten turnips either.

 

[tasha99]

People have to look up those, turnips, rhutebegas etc all the time when I shop. They seem pretty basic to me, but I guess not.

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

I think I've eaten most kinds of vegetables, at least grown in North America. Most definitely a parsnip. Their ok. I roast them with other root vegetables.

 

[GaryDis]

Parsnips. I use them for making chicken soup, but rarely anything else.

 

[usnuzuloose]

Looks like a turnip to me.

 

[AnnaFloridaLover]

Looks like a turnip to me.

A turnip is round. 100% sure they are parsnips. I like turnips much more even though my grandmother was adamant that only cows eat should eat them.

 

[BCDisneyFanatic]

Definitely a parsnip. I roast them all the time, in olive oil, usually with a mixture of baby potatoes, carrots, onions and red pepper. I also put them in beef stew. One of my favourite veggies

 

[msjprincess]

Looks like a parsnip to me. Turnips are round.

 

[indygirl99]

Ate a ton of them growing up. Mom would cook them to death and they were bland and mushy.

Nowadays I roast them with some olive oil and Cajun spice and they are yummy.

 

[punkin]

Parsnips...I just put some in the chicken soup I made today. Delicious.

 

[Julie's Haircut]

Yep, parsnips. I wouldn't expect everybody to recognize them, but I'm surprised by the large number of people who don't. Especially the supermarket cashiers. I suppose some of the cashiers may be new, but even experienced-looking cashiers are stumped sometimes.

Beef stew for dinner tomorrow. I already started. I think it tastes better when it cools and gets reheated. Potatoes, carrots, onions, celery, and of course, parsnips. They taste sweet and tender when slow cooked.

 

[mombrontrent]

I know they are parsnips but I'm not a huge fan. I'll eat them (there really isn't any veggie I won't eat) but I won't go out of my way to buy them.

 

[endy]

Parsnips. I don't eat them but my mother used to put them in stew all the time.