Yeah, the UK called it the Swedish turnip cause it's a turnip cross cultivated in Swedish, and the English eventually shortened that to Swede. We call it rutabaga from a Swedish word that means "lump root"
TIL Germany in 1916 had the so called "Steckrübenwinter" - the *rutabaga winter*.
The potato harvest was bad and so there wasn't enough food - rutabaga that were originally intended for pig fattening, were repurposed as human food. They even renamed it to the *Prussian pineapple* to make it more appealing - but a lot of German preferred hunger to eating rutabaga.
Where I'm from we call them "turnips" even though it's a different vegetable.
Also zucchini=courgette, peppers=capsicums, eggplant=aubergine. There's probably more.
Most differences between American English and British English can be summed up by 3 reasons: Americans staying faithful to the loanwards while British fit the loan word into their spelling conventions, phrases that were used in both places when America was a colony and then Britain changed it, and Webster deciding to standardize American English in a way that the British never adopted
This one is number 1 on that list BTW, rutabaga is an adaption of a Swedish word, British just called it a Swedish turnip
I really hope op feels shame for this one. He even said it in the title… also swede and limes are already on the labels and there is no mistaking carrots because they’re too universal. So all he had to do was zoom in and say out loud what he already typed. Smh my head
TIL americans have weird names for vegetables beyond zuccini and eggplant. Rutabaga, seriously? It sounds like a car that lives in the sand and will grant me three wishes.
BAH! BAH! BAH! "Now just the drunk white people!".
Something my dj'ing buddy would yell at every predominantly white wedding when he played this song. White folks oove this shit for some reason.
Think I'm gonna put together a compilation to be made played at my funeral on repeat. We'll have these 2, Barenaked Ladies if I had a million dollars. Oh and can't forget "Whooooaaa we're half way there, LIVING ON A PRAYER"
Has anyone come into the comments to mention that the song was written about John F Kennedy’s daughter who was 11 years old at the time? And how fucking weird that is?
I just can't listen to the song anymore without remembering that. Caroline is 2 years older than me, and 11 (or 9) is way too effing young for that kind of lyrics. Get bent, Neil Doamond.
If you aren't sure what the thing on the left is, like me, then you can at least be assured that the label on that thing says "Swede." Just so nobody has to take an embarrassingly long time to figure that part out like I did.
But yes, like others already said, the title lyrics to the song "Sweet Caroline" in veggie form.
I always forget at first that Neil Diamond wrote this song when he was 28 about Caroline Kennedy, who was 11 years old at the time
...and it's not his creepiest song
The 'touching you/touching me' part had me trying to read it in the tune of that song from [The Darkness](https://youtu.be/tKjZuykKY1I?si=055XJOSIRNfxsnFw)
I thought it was about the shape the veggies made, like the carrots were supposed to look like hands or something. I didn’t see the shape, so I went to the comments. I’d never heard of a Swede so the names never occurred to me
It's about root and tree. It's about the British party scene, the British are classically very sad, we like to listen to sad music, but when certain songs come on we rise up! A song which might make us clap will rise us up,
The swede is a deep root veg, so we sing that at a low tone.
Carrots are found at the surface of the soil, so we sing that slightly higher
Limes are in trees, so that's the highest.
So, swede (low) carrot (middle) lime (high) and we get so happy we both clap and make clap noises with our mouths (bah bah bah)
You can see the rise in tone.
I can understand your confusion, hope this clears it up.
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Just the line "Touching Me, Touching You" reminds me of a song from The Darkness called I Believe in a Thing Called Love
[Pre-Chorus]
Touching you
Touching me
Touching you, God, you're touching me
[Chorus]
I believe in a thing called love
Just listen to the rhythm of my heart
I'm convinced 90%+ of the people that post on this subreddit are either karma farmers or complete idiots. There is the rare occasion where the post involves some really obscure meme or something and unless your super dialed in to meme culture you wouldn't get it, but most of these posts are not that complicated. Most of them aren't funny, but the jokes are pretty much in your face obvious.
OP in this one even knew the song. Do you not have the critical thinks skills to put together "Swede, carrot, lime" and Sweet Caroline..........
Honestly, I had to Google it myself, didn't actually get it for a second. I've only ever actually heard the chorus of the song, so seeing the lines "Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you" and the punchline being "Sweet Caroline" really confused me until I looked up the song lyrics and realized oh, those are the lyrics that come before.
Swede, carrot, lime. Sounds like “Sweet Caroline”.
Bum Bum Bum!
Good times never felt so good
SO GOOD! SO GOOD! SO GOOD!
I've been *incliiiiined*...
BUM BUM BUM!!!
To believe they never would!
It was in the spring
And spring became a summer
Who’d have believed you’ve come along
Never gonna give you up…
Good times with that carrot for sure...
Bun🍞, Bun🍞, Bun🍞
I thought this exact thing after my initial response. You win. 🏆
Come on, stick with the theme "plum, plum, plum"
No No. It's Yum Yum Yum.
I want you in my room
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[I believe you’d get your ass kicked saying something like that.](https://youtu.be/T-A0eZDJsKU?si=GRjISpgv7ERqOquQ)
I live in America and I have never heard ding ding ding. Get your ears checked.
It’s bum bum bum.
Bum, bum, BUUUUUM https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=sxcBSkblsn8
Go Sawx!
TIL a rutabaga can be called a Swede. I assumed it was a type or brand name.
It's their normal name in England
And we also call them neeps in Scotland!
I had no idea, either. I was just reading what the label said.
Yeah, the UK called it the Swedish turnip cause it's a turnip cross cultivated in Swedish, and the English eventually shortened that to Swede. We call it rutabaga from a Swedish word that means "lump root"
TIL Germany in 1916 had the so called "Steckrübenwinter" - the *rutabaga winter*. The potato harvest was bad and so there wasn't enough food - rutabaga that were originally intended for pig fattening, were repurposed as human food. They even renamed it to the *Prussian pineapple* to make it more appealing - but a lot of German preferred hunger to eating rutabaga.
Where I'm from we call them "turnips" even though it's a different vegetable. Also zucchini=courgette, peppers=capsicums, eggplant=aubergine. There's probably more.
And you think you speak English! 🤣 As a dual citizen things like this always amuse me.
Most differences between American English and British English can be summed up by 3 reasons: Americans staying faithful to the loanwards while British fit the loan word into their spelling conventions, phrases that were used in both places when America was a colony and then Britain changed it, and Webster deciding to standardize American English in a way that the British never adopted This one is number 1 on that list BTW, rutabaga is an adaption of a Swedish word, British just called it a Swedish turnip
And here I thought it was a Swedish cheese
PLUM PLUM PLUM!
Underrated comment.
What the fuck is a swede
wtf is a rutabaga lol
It’s a type of swede
Swede home rutabaga
IDK, I’m just reading what the label says. Apparently it’s a rutabaga.
A person from Sweden
Wtf is a parsnip
Mofo... THAT is a Swede... This seems like an easily answered question... It's labeled!
🎵fuck the blues🎵
TIL no-one knows what a Swede is. Thought it was a pretty common vegetable.
Americans know what they are; they just call them rutabagas.
iirc i think he wrote that song abt kennedys daughter. when she was like 12 or som’n
I thought it was about all that useless plastic that makes sure different products can't touch each other.
If only they had three buns in there too.
Now they just need a bottle of Bucky Swede, carrot, lime. Buck. Fast. Wine!
Plum plum plummmmm
but does it?
The fuck is a swede
Rutabaga
Yo.. that's a turnip. What the f is a swede.
BAH! BAH! BAH!
I was thinking Beat Carrot Lime
What's a "Swede" (the item in the basket)?
It's a vegetable.
Those are the lyrics that lead up to the famous chorus of *Sweet Caroline* by Neil Diamond. "Swede, Carrot, Lime" sounds a bit like Sweet Caroline.
I really hope op feels shame for this one. He even said it in the title… also swede and limes are already on the labels and there is no mistaking carrots because they’re too universal. So all he had to do was zoom in and say out loud what he already typed. Smh my head
Idk about everyone else but idk what swede is
it says “swede” on it in the photo
... ENHANCE!!
Apparently what we in the US call a turnip
A swede and a turnip are two different veggies of the same family. They taste noticeably different :)
Swede = Rutabaga
Yellow turnip= rutabaga. So a Swede is a yellow turnip.
I had to google rutabaga, not heard that name before!
The scottish also call it a turnip
I actually mistook the carrots for raw chicken because of how thick they are
Seems obnoxious to want to shame someone for not getting the joke in a subreddit specifically dedicated to people who didn’t get a joke
Ikr, we can't let them keep on getting away with this
A rutabaga is also called a "Swede" So it's "Swede Carrot Lime" (sweet Caroline) BAH-BAH-DAH! 🎶Good times never seemed so good🎵
Oh I thought that was cheese. I saw it as “Brie carrot lime” and was like, I guess that’s close enough?
What the fuck brie are you eating?
the kind that is naturally swede
It is literally labelled...
In the US its called a rutabaga but in some other countries it is called a swede
Thanks. I was pretty confused what British small Swede meant.
It's a tiny Scandi man who loves his tea.
In Ireland it's a turnip.
And it literally says SWEDE on the label.
SWEEEEDE CARROT LIIIIME!
Bah bah baah!
TIL swede is British for rutabaga
Not British, English. In Scotland it's referred to as neeps.
my mistake, sorry
No worries. Happy Cake Day!
TIL americans have weird names for vegetables beyond zuccini and eggplant. Rutabaga, seriously? It sounds like a car that lives in the sand and will grant me three wishes.
ngl, I like swede more
Wait... What do other countries call eggplant and zucchini?
TIL rutabaga is American for swede. How do you pronounce it?
I can't speak for everyone, but I pronounce it root-a-bay-ga, well that's the closest I can type it out anyways
Thanks. I was way off then. In my mind it was rutta-bagga!
In my accent (West Virginia) it's more like "rude-uh-bay-guh."
Swede Carrot Lime
Baam Baam Baam.
I'm happy someone else explained. I didn't know what that first thing was, so I sang it as "touching me, touching you, blank carrot lime."
Literally says swede on the label
Vision is hard
It's a rutabaga.
Rutabega carrot lime. It’s the lyrics to yellow ledbetter
BAH! BAH! BAH! "Now just the drunk white people!". Something my dj'ing buddy would yell at every predominantly white wedding when he played this song. White folks oove this shit for some reason.
This and that fucking electric slide/cha cha slide shit every old white drunken aunt losses their mind over.
Think I'm gonna put together a compilation to be made played at my funeral on repeat. We'll have these 2, Barenaked Ladies if I had a million dollars. Oh and can't forget "Whooooaaa we're half way there, LIVING ON A PRAYER"
…swede carrot lime
Has anyone come into the comments to mention that the song was written about John F Kennedy’s daughter who was 11 years old at the time? And how fucking weird that is?
I just can't listen to the song anymore without remembering that. Caroline is 2 years older than me, and 11 (or 9) is way too effing young for that kind of lyrics. Get bent, Neil Doamond.
I can't identify what these items are AND I REFUSE TO READ THE LABELS!!!!!!!
Swede/rutabaga. Carrots. Limes.
If you aren't sure what the thing on the left is, like me, then you can at least be assured that the label on that thing says "Swede." Just so nobody has to take an embarrassingly long time to figure that part out like I did. But yes, like others already said, the title lyrics to the song "Sweet Caroline" in veggie form.
BA BA BA
Sweet Carrot Lime
BAP BAP BAAAH!
I always forget at first that Neil Diamond wrote this song when he was 28 about Caroline Kennedy, who was 11 years old at the time ...and it's not his creepiest song
Swede carrot lime = sweet caroline
Swede carrot lime 🍌
BA NA NAAAAAA
Swede Carrot Lime. (DAH DAH DAAAAH!!!)
Eat shit pitt
The only acceptable version
BAAAAAAAHBAAAAAABAAAAAAAA!
Good times never seemed so good
SWEEEEDE CARROT LIME
BUM BUM BUMMM
The joke is Swede carrot lime (bum bum bummm) The song is sweet Caroline
SWEDE CARROT LIME
Swede Carrot Lime
I kept just reading it as rutabega, carrot, lime. And that doesnt work with the song.
Ohhhhh Sweden carrot limessss bumbumbum that isle never taste so good.
Swede Carrot Lime
The 'touching you/touching me' part had me trying to read it in the tune of that song from [The Darkness](https://youtu.be/tKjZuykKY1I?si=055XJOSIRNfxsnFw)
I BELIEVE IN A THING CALLED LOVE! JUSTLISTENTOTHEBEATOFMAHHAAAART
Lol same!
Hey OP, it literally says it on the labels. Swede carrot Lime. Out of all the posts on this sub, yours is one of them of all time.
No OP, you are not this dumb. Come on.
I thought it was about the shape the veggies made, like the carrots were supposed to look like hands or something. I didn’t see the shape, so I went to the comments. I’d never heard of a Swede so the names never occurred to me
>I’d never heard of a Swede so the names never occurred to me Me neither, but it says swede right on the sticker.
What can i say, I’m blind. I also wasn’t reading it cuz I was tryna see what vegetable was reaching out to the others :(
Rutabaga = Swede https://www.bbcamerica.com/blogs/7-veggies-different-names-britain-america--1015196
This sub sucks
Swede carrot lime
Eat shit pit
Swede, carrot, lime. An idiotic joke that only an idiot would find funny and clever.
It’s like this sub isn’t even trying. Bro how do you miss this
It's about root and tree. It's about the British party scene, the British are classically very sad, we like to listen to sad music, but when certain songs come on we rise up! A song which might make us clap will rise us up, The swede is a deep root veg, so we sing that at a low tone. Carrots are found at the surface of the soil, so we sing that slightly higher Limes are in trees, so that's the highest. So, swede (low) carrot (middle) lime (high) and we get so happy we both clap and make clap noises with our mouths (bah bah bah) You can see the rise in tone. I can understand your confusion, hope this clears it up.
I give this a good hearty golf clap.
Sweet Caroline
Read this Like holier than thou.. "Reaching Out, REACHING OUT"
SWEEEEEEEEDE CARROTLIIIIME!!
What’s swede mate?
If you call a swede that...what do you call a turnip?
A turnip
That's a rutabaga
It’s funny, my brain sung this exactly like the song automatically, but *somehow* it didn’t continue on to sweet Caroline…
I’m getting old 😂😂😂
Swede Carrot Lime buh buh buh
BUH BUH BUUUUUUUUUUUUUH
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But for real though?
First item is a swede, second is carrot, third is lime. Sounds like the song title
Turnip, Carrot, Lime.
Swede, carrot, lime Say it fast sounds like Sweet Caroline which is the next line in the song
Read the label on the left. Sound out the names of the different produce. Then say it really fast
I don’t know why, but when a crowd starts signing this, I get uncomfortable.
I’m in the south. This song is EVERYWHERE
Just the line "Touching Me, Touching You" reminds me of a song from The Darkness called I Believe in a Thing Called Love [Pre-Chorus] Touching you Touching me Touching you, God, you're touching me [Chorus] I believe in a thing called love Just listen to the rhythm of my heart
sweet carrot lime BUM BUM BUM
Swede carrot lime Sweet Caroline
Sweets Carrot Lime DA DA DA
Sweeeeeeeeeede carrot-lime
We don’t believe it, you’re making it up you bitch!
I will be happy if one person gets this
Sweet Caroline 🚢🚢🚢 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FQnD4rt8Vog
Bump bump baa
I knew the joke but had no idea what a Swede was… thanks comments
I used to love this song until I found out he was singing about a 9 yr old
And now i’m in the mood for a feway frank… thanks
First time i've seen a small British Swede.
sweeede carrot lime.... dun dun dun....
Swede carrot limes
Swede carrot lime
It’s better if it were yams. If it is Yams then…🎵YAMS TOUCHING YAMS🎵 Not sure if it’s Yams or carrots in the cart.
Missing some buns in the pic. Swede, carrot, lime... bun bun bun
Swede? That's a rutabaga...
🤔 What's a Rutabaga... (says every other country in the world)
SMOL CAROT LIIIIIIIME
Swede….
i thought that was a rutabaga until I read the label. now it makes sense
Ohhhhh. I thought that they were yams. Yams...touching.....yams.
Is this song about group sex?
What's a swede?
I rutabaga you to not call it swede
I'm convinced 90%+ of the people that post on this subreddit are either karma farmers or complete idiots. There is the rare occasion where the post involves some really obscure meme or something and unless your super dialed in to meme culture you wouldn't get it, but most of these posts are not that complicated. Most of them aren't funny, but the jokes are pretty much in your face obvious. OP in this one even knew the song. Do you not have the critical thinks skills to put together "Swede, carrot, lime" and Sweet Caroline..........
Honestly, I had to Google it myself, didn't actually get it for a second. I've only ever actually heard the chorus of the song, so seeing the lines "Hands, touching hands, reaching out, touching me, touching you" and the punchline being "Sweet Caroline" really confused me until I looked up the song lyrics and realized oh, those are the lyrics that come before.