Bl**dy Enid Blyton.....what's a ??

[katymac]

Mangold Worzel

For goodness sake

DD has just asked me how to say it and what is it

I googled and got told it is a crop - but that's not enough info

What on earth is it?

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they call them Mangy wurzels round here

staple diet in Dorset

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So it's like a swede....(well why don't they say that)

What about Cecily mangold worzel frances

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(it was supposed to be a joke at getagrips expense rather than alohas dd btw)

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no not yet

cant be arsed

obviously some chippy idiot who'll just keep doing it

anyway more fun just to slag her off here

It's a turnip. Like Wurzel Gummidge (head made out of a turnip)the scarecrow. He was always trying to keep the crows off them!

it's what they make Branston pickle out of, aka ruttabga