vegetable · commodity5 bonds · 5 sourced

turnip

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Route

Pending

The routes are written. They are not yet mapped.

This entry's cultural layer already names where it came from and how it moved. What it does not yet carry is that movement as structure: ordered waypoints with real coordinates, and a mechanism on each leg. Until it does, the layer stays an empty slot rather than a drawn line, because a map built from prose would be a guess with a projection under it.

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Waypoints
Ordered places, each with its kind
Coordinates
Real positions, with the gazetteer they came from
Segments
From, to, and the mechanism that moved it
Confidence
Documented, attributed or contested
Summary
What the route argues, in a sentence

Rite

The jack-o'-lantern was a turnip. Irish and Scottish households hollowed turnips and mangel-wurzels for Samhain, cut faces into them and set a coal inside to ward off the dead moving on that night. Irish migrants met the American pumpkin, which is enormous and soft and easier to carve, and the tradition changed vegetable within a generation. The pumpkin gets the credit for a rite the turnip carried for centuries.

The Oxford Companion to Food (Alan Davidson, 1999)