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While I have a clear mental image and concept of the nature of both leeks and parsnips, I keep mixing them up in translation exercises absent-mindedly because the idea of preparing, eating, or buying just one of them without a full array of other root vegetables in the same dish still doesn't really compute (I have this problem in Swedish and Finnish too. In fact, I just double-checked the terms in Finnish right now). It's like my brain refuses to recognize that it matters if I'm not concentrating. I'm sure that if I knew the words for rutabaga, fennel root, and celeriac, all of them would get the same treatment (even though fennel fronds are independently useful in my experience).

I've been informed that in Wales leeks are commonly seen on pizza, which is funny but honestly not weirder than the Finnish or Japanese pizzas I've seen. Less weird, really.

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Date: 27 Jan 2020 12:31 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] spark
And an additional vocab complication in translation from English: the root veg that are called rutabaga in the USA are called turnip here, and the smaller white with purple tops veg that are called turnip in the USA don't exist here.

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Date: 27 Jan 2020 04:57 pm (UTC)
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Huh, I vaguely knew there was some kind of terminological Thing with root vegetables between US and UK, but I had no idea it was of this nature! And looking it up on the ole wikipeds returned this nugget of knowledge: "originated as a cross between the cabbage and the turnip". WHAT.

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Date: 27 Jan 2020 05:14 pm (UTC)
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Half the vegetable aisle is a mutant form of cabbage https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brassicaceae.

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Date: 27 Jan 2020 02:02 pm (UTC)
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It's a little bizarre to have leek pizza, but I guess the flavour once they're fried is probably akin to onions, which are much more canonical.

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Date: 27 Jan 2020 04:02 pm (UTC)
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Often it's a white pizza and frequently with goat cheese or with bacon.

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Date: 27 Jan 2020 05:19 pm (UTC)
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Nice. I was thinking it'd go best with a white pizza.

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Date: 27 Jan 2020 10:57 pm (UTC)
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I shall also add that my friend from the midlands whose romantic history is primarily with Welsh men sometimes refers to himself as a "leek chaser" ;)

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Date: 28 Jan 2020 12:02 pm (UTC)
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From: [personal profile] spark
They're on the Welsh 1£ coin!

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Date: 28 Jan 2020 12:57 am (UTC)
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I think of leeks as half-onion, and parsips as pale carrots, if that's any use.

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Date: 28 Jan 2020 09:13 am (UTC)
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Onion is pretty common on pizza in the US and leeks are a type of onion, so it doesn't seem that weird to me. It sounds pretty good, but I can't eat onions anymore. ;_;

I really wish we could more easily get some of the wilder pizza toppings here that are common in other countries. (There are generally places where you can get stuff like that, like I know there's an awesome pizza place in Koreatown, but it's not something I can just get delivered like Dominos.)

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