Posted by Dave Thewlis on October 22, 2008 at 19:38:45 user dthewlis.
In Reply to: Re: Pork pies, cumberland sausage, cornish pasties... posted by David Bamford on October 22, 2008 at 09:26:03:
They (mangel-wurzels) seem to have been grown as animal fodder for a very long time. I remember reading somewhere that that they were the only cultivated "vegetable" available in prehistoric Scandinavia, and obviously not viewed as human food.