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I have encountered an Unidentified Vegetable.

It arrived in small-to-medium-length slices and has soft light yellow flesh and is a bit sweet. It looks a bit like a summer squash, but tastes more like a winter squash. In fact, it seems like nothing so much as the vegetable version of a plantain (though more thinly sliced and al dente). If it is a winter squash, why am I eating it in spring? Is it... a rutabaga?

― g@bbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 23:31 (twenty years ago)

Pumpkin? Pix plz.

― Curious George (Bat Chain Puller) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 23:34 (twenty years ago)

― j blount (papa la bas), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 23:35 (twenty years ago)

a squash for all seasons

― Amon (eman), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 23:36 (twenty years ago)

i'm pretty surre it's not pumpkin

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Tuesday, 3 May 2005 23:38 (twenty years ago)

Sweet potato?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

is it plain flat flesh, a la a punkin or potato, or has it small seeds in?

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 01:36 (twenty years ago)

It sounds delicious.

― youn, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 01:56 (twenty years ago)

Daikon? I had some for the first and only time a few months ago. Really good.

http://www.fukuoka-edu.ac.jp/~fukuhara/keitai/pict/daikon.jpg

― beanz (beanz), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 09:21 (twenty years ago)

Hmm. That seems possible. Is it one large radish?

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:53 (twenty years ago)

I think so. In Hawaii, it is apparently an insult to say someone has "daikon legs."

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:57 (twenty years ago)

anywhere else it's a compliment?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:58 (twenty years ago)

god I'm annoying today

― Ste (Fuzzy), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 13:59 (twenty years ago)

Swede? Turnip? Rutabaga? NB all same vegetable.

Was it carrot-sweet or pumpkin-sweet? Root vegetable or cantaloupe texture?

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:00 (twenty years ago)

in bizarro-Hawaii.
(xxpost)

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:04 (twenty years ago)

Root veg texture. Halfway between carrot and pumpkin.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 14:16 (twenty years ago)

There are sweet potatoes that are more yellow than orange. Was this served to you already cooked?

(This is starting to feel like 20 Questions.)

― Curious George (Bat Chain Puller) (Rock Hardy), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 15:31 (twenty years ago)

If it's halfway between carrot and pumpkin -sweet, I don't think it's a rutabaga. They're not that sweet.

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:04 (twenty years ago)

Already cooked, yes. It's possible that it was a sweet potato of some sort, but it doesn't seem to fit the vegetable category that described it.

― gabbneb (gabbneb), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:05 (twenty years ago)

Parsnip?

― M. White (Miguelito), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:07 (twenty years ago)

bamboo shoots?

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:09 (twenty years ago)

I wonder what would happen to jicama if you cooked it?

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:10 (twenty years ago)

heart of palm?
yuca?

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:11 (twenty years ago)

is it shaped in potato-like slices, or all they all uniform rectangular?

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

and, is it cooked?

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:15 (twenty years ago)

http://www.kikkoman.co.jp/homecook/series/img/satsumaimo02.jpg

― youn, Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:21 (twenty years ago)

Turnips and rutabagas are not the same vegetable!

I'm guessing what you have there is a parsnip.

Actually, parsnips, turnips and rutabagas are REALLY good if you mash them all together & drizzle a little extra virgin olive oil on them (or mash in some butter).

― Douglas (Douglas), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:40 (twenty years ago)

You could try that 20 questions website

http://www.20q.net/

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 16:47 (twenty years ago)

I was also going to say parsnip. They taste a bit like plantains too. I just had parsnips yesteday, with sweet potatoes .. and clllllub sauce.

― diedre mousedropping (Dave225), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:00 (twenty years ago)

I wonder what would happen to jicama if you cooked it?
I dunno, teeny. Maybe you'd have a bad mama jicama.

― Ken L (Ken L), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:03 (twenty years ago)

maybe its just a solid block of starch.

― AaronK (AaronK), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:07 (twenty years ago)

I hope this resolves itself soon, for curiousity's sake.
Aren't parsnips more white than yellow? Maybe it was undercooked summer squash. Also: what kind of restaurant was it? Maybe we can narrow this down by "ethnicity." Or not.

And, for that matter, what colour is club sauce? I just realized, after saying "... with club sauce" since that ep of AD, I don't think I even know what it is! Does it go on club sandwiches? What's in it?! And can you put it on unknown, possibly yellow root-like vegetables?

― rrrobyn (rrrobyn), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 17:10 (twenty years ago)

I think Youn was right and it was kumara, which comes in red, golden and apricot. It is sweet and potatoey in texture. Parsnip is a bit more turnipy in texture, sometimes even fibrous.

― isadora (isadora), Wednesday, 4 May 2005 19:34 (twenty years ago)

two years pass...

It is happening, again.

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 01:38 (eighteen years ago)

This time it has taken home-fries form.

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 01:39 (eighteen years ago)

it's carrot-sweet, not pumpkin-sweet

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 01:40 (eighteen years ago)

IT'S YOUR HAND

― HI DERE, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 01:42 (eighteen years ago)

http://www.wilsonsalmanac.com/images1/psycho_shower.jpg

― gabbneb, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 01:44 (eighteen years ago)

It was a parsnip the first time, though, right?

― Mark C, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 11:24 (eighteen years ago)

It could be parsnip again, parsnip's related to carrot, and at least in Finland they sell it in home-fries form.

― Tuomas, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 13:26 (eighteen years ago)

ambushed repeatedly by parsnips

― Tracer Hand, Tuesday, 27 November 2007 13:28 (eighteen years ago)

three months pass...

hmmm

― gabbneb, Friday, 14 March 2008 22:03 (eighteen years ago)

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