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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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usual · 28/10/2016 23:08

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SpeckledyBanana · 28/10/2016 23:00

I've been reading "Social class in the 21st Century" today (no, really) and I stopped to separate the DC who were locked in mortal combat at a play barn at the bit where it said that the more priveleged types approached stereotypically working class stuff with irony, which made it ok to them. I think it means that they consume the same thing, while still feeling superior because they do it consciously. Like a guilty pleasure. While those who are from that background just like it.

So... surely that means that we only need one Greasy Spoon per town, and if that's right then there is no place for pea shoots and nasturtiums in your salad, nor poncy non-plates, ever. I think?

Or perhaps I'm missing the appeal of your dinner running over the sides of a bit of slate.

ErrolTheDragon · 28/10/2016 22:58

Ash mmmm http://www.greatbritishchefs.com/how-to-cook/how-to-cook-with-ash HmmGrin

FoxesOnSocks · 28/10/2016 22:43

Sorry very late responding to this

Foxes was it 'leek, ash and truffle oil'? because if so just an honest but faggy management and so to be applauded.

No it was definitely 'leek ash, and truffle oil' (the Oxford comma is my addition). Fuck knows what leek as is, obviously I nodded knowingly (it was off a one of several Christmas menus I had to select).

meridithssister · 28/10/2016 22:32

Husband and I sometimes drink a pint of wine in the evening. It saves having to unrecline the sofa and refil.

MaQueen · 28/10/2016 22:26

Oh SS you are very, very bad girl...but, I love you long time, anyway...

MaQueen · 28/10/2016 22:25

Erroll I could always remember the first pint of wine, the rest...not so much Hmm

2legit2knit · 28/10/2016 22:25

*disappointED

2legit2knit · 28/10/2016 22:24

Well, I went to my local Greggs (in a petrol station, no less) today. I was very disappointing, my cheese and onion pasty was cold, I wasn't offered a dipping sauce and the toffee apple donut I had was unpleasant Haloween Sad I like their sarnies and greggsnutts, I'll stick with them next time.

ErrolTheDragon · 28/10/2016 22:22

No, its all Stump pots round here, with the basket insert. They work well.

maQ - its the people who might have done that but can't recall it who should worry.

girltalk · 28/10/2016 22:18

Has anyone else come across these strange new glass tea things that look a bit like a cafetiere thing? They have hot water and leaves in that they then stand on top of a normal teapot & it filters through into the pot below????

A friend & I got this when we asked for a pot of tea in a place the other day. Totally bemused - I mean just put the bloody tea in the pot FFS it didn't need another process - was weak as piss as well!

We ahve the best cafe in our village it's called Nice Baps Grin

MaQueen · 28/10/2016 22:12

I can recall drinking pints of wine yes, out of actual pint glasses, whilst at university...classy, me and, very, very pissed

ErrolTheDragon · 28/10/2016 22:12

I'm still weeping for the poor man who got the wrong type of non-tea bag, and wasn't taken seriously enough. He was a senior contributor to TripAdvisor, you'd have thought the police would have treated him with a bit of deference, wouldn't you?Shock

HalloToJasonIsaacs · 28/10/2016 22:10

I'm sure I've been to hipster cafes which have flaunted* their paper serviettes in a radical "aren't we witty and retro?" way.

*I'm reclaiming word from Daily Mail. It's a good word, and they shouldn't have a monopoly on its use.

SpeckledyBanana · 28/10/2016 22:09

I reckon you'd need to keep them below your ready to eat foods but above your raw meat, so - middle shelf?

ItShouldHaveBeenJess · 28/10/2016 22:07

hazy I can see the appeal! My concern would be that jeans might shrink even more than they do in the wash (and they absolutely do shrink - it's not just me getting bigger. Ahem)

meridithssister · 28/10/2016 22:04

My sister has jam jars for wine. At a recent gathering I used a pint glass just to make a point.

starsorwater · 28/10/2016 22:04

Toodles, Toodles being in the wrong class cafe is very traumatising it is like accidentally finding yourself in Paris went you meant to go to Ilkley.

hazeyjane · 28/10/2016 22:00

I remember keeping pyjamas and pants in the fridge during a really hot summer when dh and I first met. Mm mm ice cold pants.

KatieScarlett · 28/10/2016 21:58

Get two MaQ
One is never enough, two is much more satisfyingGrin

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MrsDilligaf · 28/10/2016 21:56

But which shelf do you keep your jeans on?

Veg drawer? Bottom shelf? Next to the olives?

Kleptronic · 28/10/2016 21:56

I arranged a meet up once. One of us was heartily sick on the pavement. T'was a good night.

MaQueen · 28/10/2016 21:56

KS I am looking forward to losing my maidenhead to a Gregg's sausage roll on the morrow...

SoleBizzz · 28/10/2016 21:53

I couldn't go to a Mumsnet meet up either. All those middle class Women sneering at me Hmm

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