To have swapped the swede?

[Swedesareneeps]

DS has ASD and I screwed his noodle this morning by not having available for his lunchbox The Correct Midmorning School Snack of a lump of raw swede.

So on the way home from school I stopped in at the poncy local shop and bought the only swede they had. It cost £1.05, which seemed a lot for food you usually feed to sheep, but autism I love him. Especially seeing as it had a very small crossection cut off the side (50p size) and the start of a brown bit within that, that would need to be cut off before DS would see it.

I'd also failed to buy DH's preferred cereal option but poncy local shop didn't have it so I took a long cut home to stop in Sainsbury's local to see if they had it, because I love him too (and as we all know true love is varyingly oral sex or buying preferred cereal - I'll leave it to you which leaves a better taste in your mouth). They had a better selection of Swedes at a slightly more reasonable 80p.

Would I have been unreasonable to have swapped my £1.05 swede for another at 80p? It wasn't any bigger but maybe a little better.

He eats raw swede?!

No, you can’t put produce from another shop into a supermarket —- and you’d pay twice or you’d be stealing from Sainsbury’s.
How did your DS first discover he loved raw swede?

Do you mean swap Shop A's swede for Shop B's swede, leaving the impostor swede in the other Shop? Please don't do that. It's....non-consensual bartering. If the shop gets a complaint about your changeling swede, it's extra work or possible tellings-off for their staff. You keep your shame-swede to yourself, Madam, but good luck on your cereal hunt.

Would I have been unreasonable to have swapped my £1.05 swede for another at 80p?

Did you or not?

'True love is varyingly oral sex or buying preferred cereal'
Brilliantly written!

When you say swap do you mean stole the supermarket swede and dumped the crap one in its place?

I used to love nicking the raw swede while my mum was making soup.

It seems wrong but I doubt anyone would ever notice.

Were these labelled, barcoded swedes or free-running nude swedes? If the latter then probably all right to swap to be honest as I can't see who's going to notice or care, but barcodes will cause all sorts of brouhaha.

Raw swede, though. Incredible snack-work from the lad, there. Maybe one day you can persuade him to branch out into, I don't know, pig-pellets or silage.

'It seems wrong'
'It's probably all right'

Of course it isn't otherwise the OP would've asked the staff and they would've said 'Yeah, go for it'.

Then again the OP hasn't said whether she did it or not so I suspect not.

Yes, except that on first reading I thought she was still talking about her DS when she mentioned the cereal!

YANBU for calling it “Swede”. It’s a turnip. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

I users to steal the chopped up raw carrot when my Mum was making Scotch Broth but I’m fairly sure she said raw turnip would have given me a sore tummy.

YABU I meant!

Turnips are completely different vegetables to swedes.

Bur swedes are neeps, which is confusing

There is a lot of confusion in mainstream circles over the difference between swedes and turnips. Swedes and turnips are just different species in the brassica family. So naturally, they have similar growth patterns and shapes that make these two root crops easily confused.
The most relevant differences to gardeners between swedes and turnips is their size, color, and preferred growing conditions. Although they can be interchanged in recipes, swedes are decidedly sweeter, larger, and more yellow in color. While turnips are smaller and whiter.

That is what I found in google (not my words..)

Didn’t you see the Scottish flag? What English people call a Swede, we call a turnip in Scotland (or neep, so going by OP’s username I figured she was Scottish and would get the joke).

Swede/ Turnip is on a lot of Scottish recipes so we’ve earned the right to call it whatever we like.

What you call a turnip we call White Turnip or baby turnip or something, but they aren’t very common.

I also presumed that OP had used “Swede” for the inevitable English-majority audience on MN, much as I do when talking to my Engkish mother-in-law/local greengrocer in London about soup ingredients.

The orange one is a turnip in my book. My strongly held belief on this does cause confusion here in the south of England. Either way it's a unique snack choice and I hope your son is very happy with the quality of it.

What? I'm so confused.

Only on Mumsnet could you find a post referring to swede, oral sex and autism, in the same breath.

Are you saying you stole a swede by swapping it? If that's true then you should be ashamed of yourself.

Was poncy Swede in fact locally produced organic manky Swede therefore not comparable to cheaper more cosmetically appealing factory farmed supermarket Swede ?

Anyone who thinks swapping the swede counts as 'stealing' needs to get over themselves...

Just for the record... I have always called it 'turnip'

What do you think it is then? You're swapping something inferior for an superior item, of course it's bloody stealing.

i mean' it's not in the realms of waltzing out with a crate of champagne without paying but it's still stealing.