Things you thought were fancy when you were young but perhaps were not!

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I'll start:

Vienetta's especially mint
Viscount biscuits
Nesquik milkshake

I had a childhood apparently obsessed by foods my parents declared not for daily consumption!

A few non food ones-

Avon
Tweed perfume
Zoflora (a posh friend’s mum used it, no one in my family did)
TV’s in cabinets
Swarovski crystal animals
Readers Digest, both the magazines and the hard backed books
Duvets (rather than sheets and blankets)
Laura Ashley dresses

Powdered orange juice, mixed up them left in a jug in the fridge.

Sunny delight

Prawn sandwich from M&S

I thought Austrian Blinds were the epitome of poshness (the type with multiple swags and gathers that were popular in the 80s). Fortunately my mum didn't agree as she loathed net curtains of any kind.

single serving packs of cereal- I first encountered these when we stayed in a B&B at the seaside for a weekend when I was small. After that VERY occasionally my parents would buy them as a special treat. I was sure that when I was grown up I would have them all the time.

For all those who mentioned Sarah Lee chocolate cake- I remember my family going to a friend's house for Sunday lunch and one of these was served as dessert. The mum of the family clearly thought this was very posh as it was brought to the table with a lot of fuss and 'it's a Sarah Lee' said very proudly. We were all informed that we would only have a very small portion as it was far too rich and luxurious for anyone to eat a lot of!

I went on a school exchange and thought the host family must be loaded because they had orange juice instead of squash.

White bread
Yes, vienetta
Sago!

And Yes to the single serve cereal! We got these once a year on holiday and all fought over who would get the coco pops.

@itstartedinbarcelona - I was thinking just the same as I scrolled down!!

@notquitethesame - my DGPs had the kellogs multipacks - they seemed so exotic we argued about who ended up with the cornflakes

Savoy cabbage. I always liked the look of it but we were only allowed spring greens. No idea why. I buy Savoy cabbage often now!

Avacados. Also, having a selection of different squash and cereal to choose from. Just boring orange squash and cornflakes at our house.

Vimto. Much fancier and exotic compared to Ribena.

I remember in primary school my best friend used to have a Vimto carton in her packed lunch and I used to think “she has it made”.

Tinned red salmon
Mr Kipling French Fancies
Vol au vents

Scampi
Fresh fruit juice
Chinese take away
Duvets. In fact I requested one as my 14th birthday present and thought I was the bees knees when I got one.

Vesta chow mein
Vienetta
Prawn cocktail
Steak and chips
Black forest gateux
Fresh cream on anything
Shop bought cakes, especially fresh cream ones

When I was a child I read a story about someone eating a cake made out of ice cream - mind totally blown.

Lace diolies, my gran used them and I thought they were very posh
Families where parents had a car each!
Party shoes
Sofa stream

SODA stream!

Foreign food or 'foreign muck' as my mum used to call it.

Today: avocado, blood oranges and pomegranate- these were basics to my poor mother in the 50's.

I had a Shirley Temple (essentially pink lemonade) in a Harvester type restaurant aged about 8 and I thought it was the height of sophistication. Not least because we almost never ate out.

Vienetta and After Eights

Salmon (not the tinned variety) used to be only served by my mum when entertaining guests or special occasions. Now eat it most weeks.

I grew up right at the bottom of the working class, with both parents from very deprived backgrounds, and we lived in my great uncle’s house, shared with my father’s father, so all food was very plain, cheap and aimed at two conservative elderly men (pigs’ feet, offal etc).

I had a friend from a much more aspirational background, and I could not get over that they had Heinz tomato ketchup in a jar, that you served yourself with a special knife that sat on the side of the plate the jar sat on, and oven chips. Rather than our supermarket own-brand squeezy bottle and deep-fat fryer chips.

We used to call Austrian Blinds Tart's Knickers

Also knitwear bought from a shop! My lovely grandma was a knitting addict and we had loads of hand knitted things always with itchy wool. I feel terrible now that I didn’t appreciate it at the time. She died just after my first DD was born and I still have a knitted doll and teddy she made in later life.

Non food ones for me are strangely hard to pin down but a few spring to mind:

A friend had a tv in her kitchen, I couldn't get my head around this at all as it seemed so extravagant. I couldn't imagine wanting to watch tv in my kitchen now!

The girls are school who had the Clarks shoes with the key on the bottom, oh how I lusted after them. (Clarks, if you are listening, I would die to buy a pair of shoes now that had hidden keys in them.)

Yoghurt
Sweetcorn
Pasta