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

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TiggyD · 27/10/2016 17:51

There were 2 cafes near each other. I picked the wrong one. I'm lower middle class and the cafe was for middle middle class to about lower upper class. I should have guessed by the little accent they put over the 'e' in the name.

I went in and up to the counter and asked for a sausage roll and a hot chocolate and they didn't give it to me. I was told to go sit at a table. My sausage roll came served on a plate with salad which, and you might not believe this, somebody had drizzled on! I'm guessing it was basil oil or some such frippery, although the cafe with an accent was next to a boating lake the same colour.

I should have gone to the other one where I'm sure I could have just taken the sausage roll in a bag or on a paper plate without being drizzled at. Sad

It's hard being English.

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VanillaSugarandChipSpice · 29/10/2016 11:12

You ate sugar user????????

The upper lower upper middle classes are shaking with fear....

Allalonenow · 29/10/2016 10:42
Halloween Grin When I click to open this thread I get a **fucks advert offering "tea reimagined" with pictures of glasses of green and yellow gloop.

Big Brother is watching me and trying to intimidate me, but I am resisting and drinking my morning pot of Assam.

user1475253854 · 29/10/2016 10:31

I had the opposite problem. I went into a cafe in a big outlet store and the tea was builder's tea with 2 teabags in one pot. I am a delicate middle class flower who can only drink weak earl grey or herbal. It was so strong I had to get an extra pot of water, fill the cup with milk and add loads of sugar to make it drinkable.

VanillaSugarandChipSpice · 29/10/2016 09:25

Yesterday I went to Morrisons and bought some mini pork pies for DH as a post ironic nod to his working class roots. When he opened the packet they were actually (and rather surprisingly) full of black pudding. And do you know what? I have SO middle-classed him that he ate them without a murmur.

Even pork pies are no longer safe

Fiderer · 29/10/2016 08:33

I've just found crab and salmon paste on a website I'd forgotten about, an English shop in Cologne.

V Enid Blyton. Instead of ginger beer I could have it with Stone's Ginger Wine. Sounds like a vile mix Grin Apols to anyone with A Head this morning.

rose69 · 29/10/2016 08:09

Indian restaurants also coming under pressure. When were you last given a laminated pudding menu featuring ice cream in a plastic orange skin that had spent at least a year in the back of a freezer

AsWeTumbleToTheGround · 29/10/2016 07:25

MaQueen I agree, Tommy Banks is delicious!

oldsilver · 29/10/2016 02:56

My local chippie in a definitive non working class area has taken to serving fish and chips with a quarter lemon...fruit with my fat Shock

Pah at your Greggs doughnuts - a serving of Monsieur Greggs finest lardie cakes is what you are after!

anyone know when the Christmas bakes start, my favourite

AlpacaLypse · 29/10/2016 00:02

Haven't read anything like the whole thread. However I need to post re the Speckularius biscuits - I'm 50% Dutch and these are an absolutely vital part of Autumn/Christmas. Lidl supplying them at this time of year is saving us having to send a family member over to Rotterdam on a mission.

FoxesOnSocks · 29/10/2016 00:02

Space penguins 🐧. My favourite sort.

It's possibly I've missed a few pages.

Went in a cafe of the wrong class today. [sad face]
ErrolTheDragon · 28/10/2016 23:55

Foxes space penguins, Tiggy's pleasant little fiction.

FoxesOnSocks · 28/10/2016 23:52

Rain has always drizzled, even in 1954. Bet that's where it started. Rain to lemons to squid ink.

meridithssister · 28/10/2016 23:49

I'm not sure drizzling was ever a problem in 1950s America but I may be wrong. I'm quite happy to be corrected on that point if necessary.

FoxesOnSocks · 28/10/2016 23:48

Penguins? What penguin post - I missed that. Is it about pet penguins? Humboldts, Gentoo or Emperor?

ErrolTheDragon · 28/10/2016 23:44

Yeah, but toodles didn't call you a lady, Tiggy. (And I'm almost certain that penguin thing isn't the most ridiculous post ever either)

FoxesOnSocks · 28/10/2016 23:40

Didn't everyone break into song a lot and go to diners all the time in 1950's America?

HoneyDragon · 28/10/2016 23:34

And I'm pretty certain I don't like in 1950's America. Probably.

HoneyDragon · 28/10/2016 23:34

I wasn't allowed in a posh bar once. I had to take my trousers off.

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TiggyD · 28/10/2016 23:27

Toodles60

What era are you from fgs? I went in the wrong class cafe? Crikey the most ridiculous post ever made here. Are you really whining because you had salad with a sausage roll? Get a grip woman fgs. Stop acting as though its 1950's America and you aren't allowed in certain places. Ridiculous.

Firstly, the space penguins make all their occasional tables wear ginger wigs in case the shiny things arrive unexpectedly. That is the most ridiculous post ever made on here.

Secondly, salad I could have handled. I've had many diner/food relationships with salads in the past and I assume I will again in the future. But it was drizzled on! Against my will! A drizzle was always some kind of crazy thing that happened to other people's salads. I never would have guessed it could ever happen to me next to a boating lake and miniature village. I just wanted the the sausage roll. Naked and glistening with grease. I wasn't ready for the folderol it was served with. Or the salad.

Threedly, Talc is right. I'm no Lady. Far too common. Ladies start at lower upper onwards.

Forthright, I know I'm allowed anywhere without an injunction against me, but just because you can do something it doesn't mean you should. I assume you've been cursed by God with not being British to not understand that.

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Jonsnowscodpiece · 28/10/2016 23:20

I've got no idea what anyone is saying on this thread, but it's bloody funny.

FoxesOnSocks · 28/10/2016 23:20

So it's just burnt leek? Pfffff.

ChazsBrilliantAttitude · 28/10/2016 23:19

You mean incinerating food is posh. So Mumsnetting whilst cooking has inadvertently enhanced my social status on more than one occasion.

Our old toaster used to produce astonishingly on trend toast complete with a wheat flour ash.

MaQueen · 28/10/2016 23:19

I've been hooked on the Great British Menu. Not for the horseradish tweels or strawberry redacted coulis...but, for that chef called Tom [rubs knees]

starsorwater · 28/10/2016 23:11

Foxes well I was just about to suggest a vernacular and veggie version of corned beef hash but now I know setting fire to things is real posh cooking. Which raises dh and his bbqing to a whole new level of accomplishment.

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