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.

If @MNHQ could see their way to just banning everyone doing a cat's-bum-mouth on this thread, we'd be closer to the heyday of MN than we have been in a good long while.

Would I be unreasonable to swap oral sex for my favourite cereal?

You made the choice to buy the inferior swede, so you keep the inferior swede. Seems simple enough.

As a child of 'The North' some years ago, before pumpkins were ubiquitous (and I'd only seen one on Scooby Doo) we suffered our beleaguered parents to hack out ( much harder work than scoring) the middle of swedes to make halloween lanterns which were then referred to as 'Turnip Lanterns'.
So swede and turnip simultaneously, and smelling like a roast dinner when lit.

And no,OP, you can't swap your slightly manky organic swede for a pristine supermarket one.

How is it unreasonable to call something what it's commonly called in the country OP lives in?

I don't see how the two situations are comparable. Both pots of yogurt were in the Sainsburys when you arrived.

But it wasn’t animal feed swede/turnip/rutabaga (I
love that word “rutabaga”, rolls off the tongue, might even be tempted to try root of brassica if it was called that here). PP misread poncy as pony.

They use them as animal feed in my part of
Kent. I always have images
of Baldric from Blackadder when I see them for
sale.

A good point 🤔

Mars Bars are not legal tender.

I am not sure what else I have to say.

As a child of 'The North' some years ago, before pumpkins were ubiquitous (and I'd only seen one on Scooby Doo) we suffered our beleaguered parents to hack out ( much harder work than scoring) the middle of swedes to make halloween lanterns which were then referred to as 'Turnip Lanterns'.
So swede and turnip simultaneously, and smelling like a roast dinner when lit

me too but I’m from the Home Counties!! The bloodstains from almost-severed children’s fingers were a lovely Halloween touch.

Don't give her any ideas.

There seems to have have been a Swede/Turnip derailment

As another parent of an Autistic teen you just have to do it, routines & patterns have to be kept

LTB!

Not by my logic, but by yours as articulated in your previous post. You made the point about whether I had paid for it or not. I was pointing out that the shop would get the same amount of money. Now you've changed your logic to be about the quality of the swede, which is much harder to counter.

or utterly gross in the context of talking about your child.

In poking a hole in the top of the yoghurt and then putting if back on the shelf I deprived Sainsbury's of the opportunity to profit from selling the yoghurt. Surely, if we're talking about complete fairness to Sainsbury's, I should have to compensate them — probably not just for the loss of profit, but also the added cost of disposing of the spoiled pot? My example is far, far worse when you come to think of it, than swede swapping. Dropping a bottle of wine is practically criminal. Tax avoidance, even. That's £2+ Mr Sunak's been deprived of.

Neither swede was blessed with a barcode, nor were the wrapped in film. Naked as the day they were dug, they were.

They are different things! Swede is big tough and yellow = Swedish turnip and a turnip smaller white and softer, in Suffolk anyway.

I was writing about my DH!

Sorry @Pluvia had some of that irritating work stuff to do.

Readers, I did not swap the swede. I ended up in the place where the only reason I wanted to swap it was because it was a (ridiculously) expensive, inferior swede. If it hadn't been a wee bit manky I wouldn't have wanted to swap it, so because it wasn't equivalent it felt wrong.

But in mulling it over I thought I'd put it to the den of vipers as my moral arbiter. You came through - thank you.

Now, anyone for Haggis, neeps and tatties? I've got a manky swede that needs used up!

No. Still theft.

I'm disappointed in you, OP. I'd hoped a woman who writes with such elan and insouciance, would have the chutzpah to swap a manky swede. You can't mash that swede, your lad needs snacks.

My partner's Scottish and swears she was fed slices of swede/ turnip/ neep/ whatever with sugar and told it was apple growing up.

Because you're replacing it with something that can't possibly be identical. They might have the same number of swedes but now they have a sub-par swede that they stand less of a chance of selling than the nicer one you took. You can't think that's ok.

I love raw swede/turnip the big yellow one.
Best value is the stew packs were you get onions and a couple of carrots and a swede/turnip for a £1.
My Mam use to tell us children off for stealing the raw swede. apparently she lied to us, but let us believe it was naughty so we would continue to ask for it.

We also carved swedes at Halloween in deepest, darkest Somerset. I can remember doing it at Brownies and the smell of swede still reminds me of Halloween and lots of little girls almost chopping off fingers.

I’m also 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 and feel like I grew up being warned that most healthy foodstuffs were likely to give me a sore tummy. Two apples in a single day felt like an extreme sport, god forbid they were stewed. Although I now try and do the low FODMAP thing so maybe my maw was onto something…