What do these vegetables taste like?

Most people who think they have eaten "Turnip" have not actually done so,

"Turnips" are white, the typical "mashed turnip" that is served in most places

are actually "Rutabaga", a close relative of the turnip that's a golden yellow color.

White turnips have a milder flavor but don't soften for mashing like rutabaga does.

Actually thinking about it if you frequently eat at chinese buffets you probably have eaten turnip, but didn't know it.

Those white crispy lumps you find in some stir-fried dishes are actually turnip.

Beets have a distinct earthy-sweet flavor and are excellent, they are one vegetable

that is actually improved by being canned, because otherwise nobody would have

the patience to cook them long enough to make them edible.

Best served boiled, buttered and salted, in that order.

Eggplant doesn't have much flavor, but is most often used as an

excuse to eat fried seasoned bread crumbs, when 99.99% of any

flavor comes from whatever you season them with.

Parsnips are possibly the worst vegetable I've ever tried, but my sister loves them.

They have a carrot-like texture but a bizarre taste. I compare them to marmite, you love or you hate!

Turnips are nice mashed, have a potato like consistency. Very sweet, earthy taste. (Better with a little bit of butter)

Beets, do you mean beetroots? I'll assume you do, they are very sweet but chewy. I love them.

And eggplant is an acquired taste, nice in dishes but not on its own! :)

The best way is to try them as if is impossible to explain how they taste.

You don't need to buy a lot of each, just buy one to cook and try.

With things like an aubergines, and turnips and other large ones cut them in half, and try cooking a different way.

I have been tempted to try beetroots and the other day I bought on and boiled it and ate half and I didn't really like it, but I saved the other half and pickled it and that was far nice, but no as nice as canned so I will stick to canned beetroots.

Dune

I don't really like eggplant, but beets and parsnips and turnips are all really good, earthy kind of flavours, because they are roots.

this is going to sound a bit of a 'no duhh!' answer, but it depends on what you do the the veggies to give them certain tastes. like raw carrot tastes different to cooked

parsnips kinda taste (this is gunna sound weird) kinda like straw to me... when you do nothing but boil them - i haven't eaten straw but you know when you smell it and its like you have???

the others ive tried and love (but i cant describe for the life of me what they taste like) D:

then again im not a fussy eater, so everything is 'yummy'

but you know the scenario where something plain can be spicy as hell to another???

i get the feeling that the tastes will be what you make of it, so people might have different opinions on what a food tastes like compared to another

They are nasty