rutabaga

God, I could murder a good swede right now. *rubs tummy*

And it went downhill from there. Yanks 2, Planks 0 if I remember rightly.
They're swedes in NZ too, by the way.

Reminds me of that infamous sports headline after the English football team lost to Sweden in a game they were favoured to win. Sweden played well of course but the English were a shambles. As the defeat eliminated England from the 1992 European Championship, the press were bristling:
Swedes 2, Turnips 1.

I'm confused. Why is it a swede? What connection, yarb? *feels very dense*

*realizes it must be that McGangbang*

Wow, really? That's wild - I am Canadian and I've never heard it referred to as a 'swede' either.

Every rutabaga is a swede. But not every Swede is a rutabaga, regardless of the level of docility.

See ballistic root vegetables.

Known in the UK as a swede. I finally made the connection just the other day after five years of vainly trying to convey the concept to bewildered Canadians.

Yummy.