DS says he's only 1% British

[FatCatThinCat]

We're a mixed citizenship family. I have Swedish, British and Irish citizenship, as does DS, and DH has Swedish and British. We live in Sweden but our home language is English, although we all speak Swedish when out and about.

Yesterday, 7 year old autistic DS declared with absolute certainty that he was 99% Swedish and only 1% British (totally forgot about his Irish citizenship). I tried to explain that he was equally all three but he was having none of it. This morning again he's insisting he's Swedish and said he doesn't want to go to his native English class today. So I thought I'd better talk to his teacher about it at drop off.

So she tells me that yesterday in class they were talking about Easter and different traditions from around the world. Here kids get a cardboard egg full of easter sweets, marshmallow rabbits, jellybean eggs etc. The someone said that British kids get chocolate eggs, not sweetie eggs. DS apparantly became quite alarmed at this and this is why he's now almost entirely Swedish.

So in a 7 year old's head citizenship is based upon where you get sweets.

Is mine the only one who puts 2 and 2 together and gets a bag of pick and mix?

DD (German parents but born in the UK with dual nationality) is very fluent in her approach, always depending on hat is in her favour.

So in December she is German as she gets her boot filled at St. Nikolaus and we get Father Christmas on Christmas Eve.

In Primary school she preferred being English when she heard from her German friend that they have daily homework after school but then she stumbled a bit when she realised that they only go to school in the mornings.

When she filled out the census she decided to call herself Anglo-German, she wanted to go for Anglo-Saxon first as DH comes from northern Germany.

😂😂😂😂😂 I love kid logic

@BearSoFair yup, Norwegian brown cheese!

For anyone else asking about it, this link will explain it better than I could. You’ve not lived until you’ve tried it!
www.lifeinnorway.net/the-norwegian-phenomenon-of-brown-cheese/

@ODFOx I highly disagree with you around brown cheese being grim, but I could kiss you for telling me where to get some!!! (Out of respect, I’ll not eat brown cheese beforehand )

Excellent logic that boy. I can't really blame him. If chocolate or sweets were involved Ds2 would happily insist he was a Martian if he thought that would get him more.

We are Welsh but Exdh is English (to my fathers horror making DC half English....not sure he has ever really forgiven me ) so during the six nations the DC allegiances were all over the place. Until they realised I was the provider of desserts and they became militantly Welsh

We are Swedish (me) and British (Husband but from Northern Ireland) and live in the UK, my kids switch from being totally Swedish to not Swedish at all to all English and totally won't support Ireland in Rugby what so ever and then sometimes would love to move to Belfast.....

Fwiw i think your ds's priorities are spot on. We should all choose citizenship based on best sweets . Guess the Swiss and Belgians would be overcrowded by chocolate lovers .

As for Brunost, even being Scandi it's a no. Nutella colored sweet cheese, I'll let the Norwegians hold on to that one.

Agree with the Brunost, I assume it's a bit like the Swedish Mesost which is also absolutely rank

Brown cheese or Brunost is a goats cheese that has been boiled for a long time on a low hear so the sugars caramelise, hence the sweetness. I don't like it on regular bread but on crackers it's lovely. Though a little goes a long way. And it's very fatty.

(Not always goats cheese, I'm sure, but where I was introduced to it is the area of the original brunost, the Norwegian Gudbrandsdal.)

My husband is Chinese and in the years we lived in his country (Singapore) we used to celebrate Chinese New Year with his large family. Our DDs really miss all the CNY goodies now we are no longer living there (especially the pineapple tarts)

i've lived in Sweden for over 20 years and I've never come across brown cheese. I've got to go to the supermarket shortly so will be investigating. Maybe they have it and I just haven't noticed.

That reminds of my DS at about the same age who wanted to convert to Catholicism when he realised that the Catholics in his class were going to get a ton of money for their first communion. No amount of explaining that religion is about spirituality and not cash benefits would sway him.

Surely people with three heritages get three times the sweets and chocolates don't you think?

I found brown cheese. I didn't buy any though as I'm trying to lose weight and have had a few bad days this week. If I buy it and it's good, I'd have to eat all of it. So it'll have to wait until I've lost a bit more.

I also found a cardboard egg big enough for a lifetime's supply of sweets. I bought one of the smaller ones. Unfortunately DS noticed it in the shopping bag when I picked him up from school. So I had to think on my feet and told him it was for him to put out on Easter Eve to see if the Swedish Easter Bunny will leave him some sweets. He seemed quite happy with this Easter egg Christmas stocking wannabe explanation. Kids'll swallow any bullshit if it results in sweets.

I'm not sure you need to worry about the Brunost calories. For most people it's something you need to get accustomed to like or born into. Just like Kalles Kaviar .

Makes perfect sense to me. I too am 99% Dutch until Britain realises that a chocolate sprinkles sandwich is a perfectly fine breakfast and ever supermarket should have more choices of liquorice then chocolate bars.

Is chocolate sprinkles sandwich similar to Australia fairy bread?

You need to feed him more sausages - the foreign excuses for them just dont cut it. Eaten with brown sauce, naturally.

@FatCatThinCat

Is chocolate sprinkles sandwich similar to Australia fairy bread?

I had to look it up but yes it looks the same but then with chocolate sprinkles (or even better chocolate shavings).

@ODFOx

TBF it is more Norwegian than Swedish, but for those in the uk who miss it (weirdos) there's an online shop called skandi kitchen or similar which sells Brunost.

Waitrose sell it too on the deli counter.

I still can't decide whether I love it or hate it. It certainly doesn't look very appetising.

Thursday is traditionally pea soup day in Sweden. I'm going to remind him of that. He'll be renouncing his citizenship by tea time.

Clever boy .

@GreenMeeple

Makes perfect sense to me. I too am 99% Dutch until Britain realises that a chocolate sprinkles sandwich is a perfectly fine breakfast and ever supermarket should have more choices of liquorice then chocolate bars.

I am German but grew up near the Dutch border and these babies were my breakfast staple.

Now I get them extremely expensive via Amazon. I have to check how much I can bring back when we are back home without custom duty issues,

Only left enough for one or max two portions and I have to be brave u til Summer before I order again,