"Swede Rabbit on e-bay" Topic

I had to share this one. A friend of my son has put a rabbit "sculpture" carved from a swede up for sale on e-bay. My son was present at the Chinese restaurant when this object was served up alongside the spring rolls. Bidding has reached nearly £1,000.00 GBP ! Weird. See auction

The only 'Swede' I know is the Scandanavian kinds. What the heck is it? And do you honestly expect to get paiod? :)

Looks like it could be "Sweet" Potato

A quick consult of a "British American" online dictionary translates swede as "rutabaga", whatever THAT is! And no, I can't imagine that he really expects to get paid! But there are strange people out there........

If it looks like a scam and sound like a scam it's a scam. Two bids both with a rating of under 15 exchanges. I have learned to spot a set up a mile away...

A rutabaga is a root vegetable. Delicious cooked or raw. My grandmother used to add them to her veggie soup; always a treat after a long drive to Wisconsin.

rutabaga = turnip
It all makes sense now (!)
If it's a scam, whoever bids on a rutabaga deserves it. I'd call it a prank, esp. judging from the text of the auction.

They make good pies, too.

Man!

I miss the days when you could shop for cool things like kidneys on ebay. What have we come to?

Rabbit

it looks like carved pineapple to me-

another thing to consider, is the fact that even if the 'lucky winner' of this alleged whatchamacallit doesnt come across with the cash on this, eBay is going to want its percentage on this! I think the seller is going to find that he has played a trick on himself!

A swede is indeed a large turnip. As far as I can tell, it has gone completely out of fashion everywhere except in England, probably because it was never very highly regarded, being the kind of vegetable used as much as cattle feed as for human consumption.

My uncle still grows them, though. They are nothing exceptional, but certainly do not deserve being snobbed on such a large scale.

Yes, a scam, and interestingly enough jamesjarvis seems to be outbidding himself.

Funny. We actually made these kind of things in my father's chinese restaurant too even though we usually used carrots. It was just a bit frustrating from time to time that not every realised they were decorations only and took a bit just to discover they were raw.

And before anybody asks, no, that's not how I got into sculpting. ;)

"took a bite" that is. Looking at the sentence it's time to get some coffee to wake up.

Darn! I must have thrown away a new car's worth or digistible Chinese sculpture over the years! Sorry, I'm off now, dumpster diving behind my local Chinese restaurants!

The full name of the root vegetable in question is actually "swedish turnip", but often gets abbreviated to swede. Rutabaga is a swedish dialectal name for it, brought to the US of A by immigrants. It's a necessary ingredient in some classic swedish dishes, i.e: those that no-one cooks anymmore.

"The full name of the root vegetable in question is actually "swedish turnip", but often gets abbreviated to swede."

Hmmm, here in the UK (It does contain more contries other than just england), Its just a SWEDE, always has been, always will be. and you dont actualy eat it by itself (Unless you like realy foul tasting food), it gets mixed in with Parsnips and the like and is still the foulest food you can imagine.

I like Swede. You usually get them mashed with potato or diced. Never heard them called swedish turnip before?

I happen to like rutabaga. In fact, I may have some for a snack later this evening.