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!

Ribena instead of supermarket brand squash
Whole loaves of crusty white bread (we always had sliced wholemeal)
Parents who smoked occasionally with wine or coffee
Conservatories

Wine.

I'm getting on a bit
Toilet roll holders
Crustless sandwiches
Grated cheese
Having a home phone
told you I was old

Anything that wasn’t cubed, boiled potatoes and pieces of plain, brown meat.

I didn’t have rice, cous cous, pasta or noodles until I went to university. Never had anything that was a “dish” (e.g lasagne, moussaka or anything else that needs assembling).

We weren’t allowed condiments inc salt or vinegar.

So everything was a revelation to me. In fact, I’m still discovering new foodstuffs in my 40s!

Things I remember as being special moments during my life.

• getting my first duvet instead of sheets and blankets
• trying a Babycham
• Making my first microwave ready meal. It was a prawn curry.
• cooking a frozen pizza at home (I grilled it rather than putting it in the oven )

I believed it all to be very sophisticated and modern.

I've just remembered another one.
A few friends of mine thought my mum 'posh' because we didn't have a chip pan permanently kept with semi solid lard in it on the oven top.

Lucozade....in the tall glass bottle with cellophane

You knew you were poorly if you got Lucozade!

You thought you must be near to death if DM broke out the Lucozade.

When I left home I had a bottle every week.

My mum used to buy some sort of Orange Juice concentrate from the Chemist. No idea what that was.

The people next door had the Alpine Pop man i was insanely .

Quiche. As a working class kid, I thought this was the epitome of posh food, and definitely not for the likes of us.

M&S food. I knew they sold food, because I had taken the bus into the big city (ie Derby) but we definitely couldn’t afford to shop there. A few years later, I went to my then BF’s parents house for dinner (we called it ‘tea’ of course). They were definitely posh. We had M&S salmon en croute with baby vegetables and white wine. It was the poshest meal I had ever eaten .

My BF's mother had the Eternal Beau dinner service. Fancy.

Chicken in a Basket at the Chicken Inn. They gave you plastic gloves and you ate it with your hands. I thought this was very exotic. 😂

Company cars
Holidays in France
Cans of pop
Soda stream
Going to cultural things like exhibitions
Foreign food like pasta, bolognese, chinese take away

My friend lived in a bungalow with 2 toilets i thought that was right fancy we lived in a block of flats I now live near the bugalow and I still love it

Anything from Mr Kipling because we only ever had homemade cakes.

Oh yes Lucozade when you were ill I am old enough to remember the chemist selling lucozade i loved the cellophane round the bottle .

I always knew I was really ill when DM bought that

@Sparklingbrook we had that dinner service, my dm thought she was the bees knees until she spotted the Barlows had it on Corrie.

I loved going for tea at my best friend's house, they used to serve everything in dishes to help yourself from, it felt so fancy.

Anything that involved hotels and airports 😂😂 then I lived abroad and travelled loads and learned to loathe airports and airport hotels!! Although obvs I still love a luxury hotel stay 💕

It certainly was a thing of beauty in 1989

Duvets, I was brought up with heavy itchy blankets and big old coats on my bed in the winter x

Grapes
Tinned salmon
Pineapple
Dates
Cinzano and lemonade
Confetti

Before i opened the thread, Viennetta popped into my mind. Highly classy to my 9 year old self.

Front opening washing machine
Berni Inn
Beafeater
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