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.

I'm surprised the first swede cost more, presumably the horsey people who usually buy them are not so worried about cost as Sainsbury's average customer, but yes, you would have been unreasonable to swap an animal feed grade swede for a human food grade swede. Speaking as a Sainsbury's employee I haven't come across anyone doing this but it wouldn't surprise me considering the tricks some customers do get up to, I won't elaborate as I don't want to give people ideas. I'll just ask that those of you out there who like to dump your empty Costa coffee cups on our shelves, please use the public bins, I'm fed up of clearing up after you.

Why have I never thought of raw swede as a snack? I bet that's really good.

Of course you can't swap the swede.

I don't think the first swede was being sold as animal feed, OP was being amusing 😆

She's taken a swede from a shop and not paid for it.

Swede is not a form of currency so can't be used as payment.

Of course it counts as stealing.

So you'd be fine with someone taking say.... a nice lamp from your house and replacing it with an inferior one?

Swedes and turnips are two different vegetables though!!

They do this in Cornwall too!

I'm surprised the first swede cost more, presumably the horsey people who usually buy them are not so worried about cost as Sainsbury's average customer, but yes, you would have been unreasonable to swap an animal feed grade swede for a human food grade swede.

I think the OP was joking when she talked about people feeding it to sheep. I don't think she was literally suggesting it was being sold for that purpose.

Why are you trying to make out that Scotland has some special hold over swedes?! What a weird flex.

swedes came from Sweden. Hence the name. You are incorrectly calling then turnips.
and I am from a part of the U.K. that calls them turnips too. And we are all wrong as well. They’re officially called swedes.

What cereal was it?

Turnips are the smaller, stronger tasting ones, aren’t they?

If you were going to Sainsburys for your DH’s cereal, why didn’t you put the manly expensive swede back and buy everything from Sainsburys?

manky not manly

MultiBird 10HailMarys Ha Ha I read the word poncy as pony😊

I think you'll find that a swede is a neep, and a turnip is something different altogether. Purple top Milan for the win!

His grass eating days are over tf

I thought OP was going to swap for a Danish pastry.

What have I just read?

I would have thought, that whatever you call it, they wouldn't be good for your stomach eaten raw??

(the orange ones are swede!!)

@Swedesareneeps yep that would have been wrong!! You can't swap food between shops, regardless of the condition.

Bizarrely, no. Standard but very expensive swede.

Would folk be less likely to say it was theft if the original swede had been of better provenance?

Personally I'd have bought the nice one for DS to have raw & cooked the original one.

suppiding I had ascertained if it's ok to eat them raw. Just off to consult with Dr Google. I could do with a new snack!!

I would have just bought another swede and used the manky one for soup or something.

I'm intrigued as to where the horsey people come into this. I assure you DS is entirely human. Stubborn as a mule, mind you.

Also I don't know why people think you can't eat them raw, I've done it for years and not had any trouble! Turnips and swedes both fine.

Did you swap it or not OP, you haven't made it clear?