Went in a cafe of the wrong class today. [sad face]

Barbara loving the fish cake picture, haven't had one like that since I was a student - we used to have them in a breadcake, a fish cake butty, preferably with peas - heaven.

boffin I genuinely think their baguettes are good, the bread is crispy and there's no shit in my ham and cheese. Just butter, ham and cheese.
Sausage rolls are great, but I do believe the recipe changes depending on where you are, so they suit 'local' tastes.
Yum yums are so good that Marksies et al do small fancy versions at twice the price.
I do love the occasional naughty steakbake, my OH professes love for the mince pie, not the festive kind.
The ham and cheese melt is the most disappointing thing for me though. They are NOT like the ham and cheese jambons that you get from an Irish deli counter. In fact, I don't know of a good deli counter like they do at home.

Quite distressed at the thought of a warmed shortbread.

I need to point out the pot pourri is very 1990's and no amount of organic boxes from anywhere will disguise this.

Interesting :) thank you for the recommendation.

My spouse is sitting next to me and nodding. So, yay for the hot tub. But I currently can't go in a hot tub anyway. So, that project will have to wait...

These are the bestest hot tubs ever. I am thinking of hiring one for a birthday weekend.

Bathing Under The Sky

FadedRed, of course you are right. It's so long since I saw or never mind ate a Baked Alaska. This thread is going to lead me astray. I NEED sweet and sickly. NOW.

I have to say I have never been to Greggs. I think there is one reasonably near my work, though. What is good there?

boffin

Interesting you say this. because I remember them from the alps but seeing as I'm Swiss that's nothing fancy for me :D

I once went into a chippy with someone who got upset when they realised they had a Sainsbury's bag in their hand and thought the chip shop owner might be offended they also bought food elsewhere.

I thought they were joking and laughed myself stupid.

A couple of years later a psychiatrist diagnosed them with paranoid personality disorder...

Actually more like this. I hope American won't think a hot tub like this is trashy. Or else my spouse might not want one...

Je suis dèsoleé Annie it's 46 years since I did French badly!--

Wearepregnant, that kind of hot tub is quite U because it resembles hot tubs outside one's ski chalet in Aspen. It's the blue plastic types that are non-U. We know this because Cheri Blair has got one.

I suspect neither the working nor the upper classes have pot pourri anywhere in their houses.

Grayson Perry's episode on the middle classes had me in stitches. The upper middle were distinguished by their love of penguins (the books, not the biscuits) in replicas of the original covers. The lower middle were distinguished by the infinitessimal gradations of status they gave to one another's cars.

PuppetinParadize. Noooo! My deep fried ice cream was real super clotted cream ice cream, dipped in super fine tempura batter, rolled in fine shredded coconut flakes and rapidly deep fried, so that the outside was hot and crispy and the ice cream inside was still frozen. It was delicious!
Baked Alaska is a sponge cake base with ice cream on to which is surrounded completely by meringue and baked in the oven to brown the meringue. The ice cream remains frozen because it is insulated by the sponge and meringue.

Five Guys has just opened in Dublin and they are queueing out the door ( seriously) to spend shed loads of money on a burger that you can't get into your mouth- I know... I queued too
Then again I've seen them queue up in the rain and the cold at Scrumdiddly's Ice Cream Parlour too. Every.Single.Night in summer.

Tiggy I don't have pot pourri but Jo Malone reed diffusers and Dyptyque candles. To which class does one belong?

As a non-British person living with my American spouse in Edinburgh this thread is so...confusing

I'm apparently very lower class according to British standards.

I love bacon, sandwiches and everything fried. I actually simply love food in general .
And hot tubs are awesome. We had these (they looked basically like the one in the pic) when I was little and I was totally planning on buying one. Oh well, they're awesome! Let the neighbours think whatever they want

Tiggy upper middles wouldnt have pot pourri.
they would probably keep their organic weed in the little wooden box

Five Guys has a white board with not only the region of today's pototoes, but the farm of today's potatoes, the farmer's name AND also the names of the potato pickers.

And beer. In bottles.

I was once asked if I wanted black tea. Of course I said I'll have it with milk. The waiter sniffed 'I mean would you like black or green tea'. Tbf this was Brighton.

But, Pacific, you live in the land of Deep Fried Everything. Different rules apply.

MaQueen, your post at 19.44 had me crying with laughing for about 5 mins. Lost in translation explaining to DH though.

The trouble with artisanal this and hand reared that is that it always tastes so disappointing.

Vanilla
I find Five Guys a bit of a mystery. Is it middle class because its supposedly more authentic with retro formica.

Its all very confusing... I think I know where GBK and Byron sit on the poncetastic scale but Five Guys ... not sure