Rutabaga be augmented with black pepper. Onions are never used. Regionally, neeps are a common ingredient in soups and stews. In England, swede is boiled together with carrots and served either mashed or pureed with butter and ground pepper. The flavored cooking water is often retained for soup, or as an addition to gravy. Swede is an essential vegetable component of the traditional Welsh lamb broth called cawl and Irish stew as eaten in England. Swede is also a component of the popular condiment Branston Pickle. The swede is also one of the four traditional ingredients of the pasty originating in
Carrot and stick to strategies against the fascism of Nazi Germany, Stalin had effectively replaced the "stick" of aggression he'd been using against the Socialists with the "carrot" of a better deal for them: membership in a more sweeping system of Popular Fronts against the Axis. Stalin's use of reward and punishment, as described above, has not been unique in the world arena. A casual survey of international news confirms that the tactic is still in common use today, by people in power up to and including the presidents of the USA and NATO. Carrot and stick The phrase "carrot and stick" is