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Original poster

To ask if there’s a social class issue surrounding Findus Crispy Pancakes ?

319 replies

Jumell · 08/12/2024 12:14

I’ve read some things in mine and sort of sense this might be the case but not 100% sure

Also is there a class issue around Fray Bentos pies ?

I love those !

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mindutopia · 08/12/2024 12:55

I’m very middle class and I just had to google what this is. 🫣

Having done that, I bet my kids would love them. 😂

Dontwearmysocks · 08/12/2024 12:55

Never had a tinned pie but associate eating Findus as a high risk activity given the likelihood of third degree burns…

as an aside - my spellcheck tried to change Findus to fondue…am I middle class now 🤔🤔🤔

Bjorkdidit · 08/12/2024 12:55

TheShellBeach · 08/12/2024 12:17

No, no.
They only eat the Haddock fish fingers.

And not "own brand".
😂

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Adds haddock to the list of foods that are bog standard basic in Yorkshire and the sought out aspirational option everywhere else.

Haddock - our fish and chip shops almost entirely sell haddock, cooked in beef dripping
Longley Farm cottage cheese
Seabrooks crisps

It really is God's Own County.

It's likely to be snobbery. People who consider themselves middle class wouldn't like to be seen eating crispy pancakes or buy frozen food apart from fish fingers and frozen peas.

There was a thread a few days started by someone who'd been to Iceland (the supermarket not the country) for the first time and was surprised that they sold food that she recognised as, um food. Like vegetables and fish etc and it wasn't the 'pizza and chips for poor people' emporium that she'd previously imagined.

quantumbutterfly · 08/12/2024 12:55

StopStartStop · 08/12/2024 12:50

Of course. Those crispy pancakes are very common. Good quality fish fingers (or fillets) are fine.

But surely the most cosmopolitan people love a bit of offal.

Liver pate on toast anyone?

WhimsicalGubbins76 · 08/12/2024 12:53

There’s a class issue with everything with the plastic middle class.

The rest of us don’t care or think about any of those things.

Fir the record, I hate fray bentos, but I love the mozzarella crispy pancakes 🤣

ObelixtheGaul · 08/12/2024 12:53

villagecrafts · 08/12/2024 12:28

To Fray Benton Pies, Findus Crispy Pancakes and Vesta Chow Mein...

I see you and raise you... Brains Faggotts!

I want to eat your brains....

BeTwinklyKhakiPanda · 08/12/2024 12:52

Had vaguely heard of the brand Fray Bentos, but no idea. Googled. You can buy them in Waitrose, so that's OK then

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Jumell · 08/12/2024 12:52

XWKD · 08/12/2024 12:50

I think I'll get myself a bottle of Blue Nun.

🙌

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Lorrymum · 08/12/2024 12:51

Vesta chicken chow mein was my favourite as a teenager. My Mum also had Harveys duo cans with cooked spaghetti in one end and bolognese sauce in the other.

XWKD · 08/12/2024 12:50

I think I'll get myself a bottle of Blue Nun.

StopStartStop · 08/12/2024 12:50

Of course. Those crispy pancakes are very common. Good quality fish fingers (or fillets) are fine.

Delatron · 08/12/2024 12:49

My Mum hated cooking so unfortunately we were brought up on this stuff. I do envy those with home cooked food. It is a worry. I know everyone now says ‘UPF crap - wouldn’t touch the stuff’ . But I don’t think the dangers were as well known in those days? Though you’d assume parents would realise home cooked was better…

We were as skinny as rakes so I think maybe my Mum thought as long as we weren’t overweight convenience food was ok.

Original poster
Jumell · 08/12/2024 12:47

quantumbutterfly · 08/12/2024 12:35

white wine! 😮

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Should’ve said crisp, white wine !

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AquaLeader · 08/12/2024 12:47

Chowtime · Today 12:15

The only frozen food the middle classes are allowed to buy are 100% cod fish fingers.

Fixed that for you.

Tess150 · 08/12/2024 12:46

You can't buy either of them in Waitrose. HTH's.

Namechangeobviously2024 · 08/12/2024 12:45

It's OK to make your own pizza as long as you use proper 00 flour and cook it using a wood-fired pizza oven. Otherwise no.

Delphiniumandlupins · 08/12/2024 12:44

Didn't know Crispy Pancakes still existed. Love me a Fray Bentos pie sometimes though.

RisingSunn · 08/12/2024 12:44

Never heard of them!

Panama2 · 08/12/2024 12:43

Working class never had a Findus pancake or any frozen foods but that may be because I was 18 before we had a fridge with a tiny freezer compartment that held an ice cube tray. I think we may have had a Fray Bentos meat pie once not sure. Does this make me aspirational lower middle class?

SockFluffInTheBath · 08/12/2024 12:42

TheShellBeach · 08/12/2024 12:21

Any thoughts on Vesta beef curry?

I remember seeing those in the shop when I was little. They kept them by the till because they were expensive and prime for pinching. Wondering now if I grew up in some sub- underclass 😅

BMW6 · 08/12/2024 12:42

Well I'm as oik as they come but wouldn't touch either product with a bargepole!

Just nasty ultra processed shite

Thepeopleversuswork · 08/12/2024 12:42

Hmmm

My mum was a card-carrying member of the Waitrose class: wouldn't have oven chips over the threshold and would have fainted at the sight of a Mushy Pea but we had Findus Crispy Pancakes. She would have drawn the line at a Fray Bentos pie though. There do need to be standards 😀

GivingitToGod · 08/12/2024 12:41

Is this for real?

AllTheChaos · 08/12/2024 12:41

I’m so common my mum actually used to work in the Vesta factory before she became a nurse! Never had any of those things growing up, but only because we were poor so couldn’t afford them. My posh but skint lovely dad used to love a Frey Bentos pie as a treat though!

StrawberrySquash · 08/12/2024 12:41

Doggymummar · 08/12/2024 12:17

I wouldn't think so. They are delicious and I ate them as a child. My friend who is minor danish royalty ( old money but no money now) loves them too.

Ah yes, but properly posh people love to eat that stuff so they can tell the rest of us how relatable they are. 😉

I'd be prepared to bet that the buying profile skews less affluent for them, but my childhood friend liked them and her mum is a GP.