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!

I always wanted a ski yoghurt in the pot that was shaped like a wine glass. I imagined getting one and sipping it like it was a glass of wine.

Eternal Beau! I remember one of my first boyfriends' mothers collecting it and having everything matching. What a blast from the past! Walnut Whips seemed very adult and sophisticated to me - still not sure I'm old enough and posh enough to have one!

Spaghetti that wasn't hooped and in a tin.
I went to a my dad's house where I was served spaghetti Bolognese with the extra long spaghetti.

I didn't have a clue how to eat it so i 'sooked' up a strand. My horror when I realised one end was on my plate still and the other end (as I imagined it) in my belly. I desperately was trying not to show that I didn't know what i was doing so I didn't show my mum up for not being posh enough to serve it at home.

I'd only ever had spaghetti hoops on toast.

BF's mother with the Eternal Beau used to serve up Sunday lunch on it, i think she might have had the serving bowls too. Weirdly she would always tell us how much the meat cost.

I wonder where they all are now and whether he is still as gorgeous.

Imperial leather soap bar. Oh, the luxury.

Oh my goodness, I’d forgotten about Walnut Whips! I used to love them, and would lust after them all year, until my birthday when the ceremonial walnut whip would be given to me. Ah, those were the days :)

And the Sara Lee chocolate gateau, beyond my wildest dreams at home but at uni a lovely young man used to appear at my door with one of those cakes and a small bottle of vodka, and we’d share the both of them. Ah he knew the way to my heart!

Technology purely for entertainment/ fun were complete extravagant luxury in my eyes, as we were at the ‘one tiny rented tv in the lounge’ and be grateful stage. The idea of TVs in the kitchen, or such transgressive behaviours as eating in the front of the tv were either sheer luxury or damning those friends parents straight to hell! And computer games and/or gaming consoles were an exciting but forbidden fruit for me. I’ve definitely made up for that one since!

Duvet covers with cute pictures on them were very

I wonder if DS will ever have these types of memories to look back on, as he has all the consumerist stuff he wants, mainly. Toys & sweets etc I mean. He gets too much of all those treaty things given to him. It’s just the big stuff like a house and stuff we can’t buy like health & family we don’t have. I hope he still has these kind of innocent lovely childhood memories to look back on.

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Duvet covers with cute pictures of baby animals on them were very posh to me. I wasn’t allowed such ‘common’ things, I had to have white or tastefully embroidered duvet covers that went with the frilly lamp shade and the carpet in my room!

I think walnut whips are just whips these days

I didnt discover eternal beau till the mid 90’s and i was sure i would have it when i was a grown up.

Late 80s/early 90s my friends dad got a new red vauxhall astra with ELECTRIC windows!!! When they gave me a lift home Phil collins was playing on the tape player. Man they were cool and ultra modern!

Late 90s i was at a friends house and her mum put a box of Dove soap on the side of the bath which just confirmed to me how rich they were. My friend showed off in a casual way that they were Dove soap users.

I feel a bit silly for this one, but instant coffee like Nescafe. No one I grew up drank coffee until I was a teenager and then it was my dad's girlfriends who seemed to only drink Starbucks. When a friend's parents made some in the kitchen so quickly rather than going out for it, I thought it was very fancy and once recommended it to someone in an overexplained way because I thought it was so fancy and rare

Never mind sighing for lost BFs, what about the sad travesty that is a Walnut Whip these days? Bah

Little Chef. Never allowed to go on a trip on holiday as too expensive.

Pesto
Fresh orange juice - we used to get a pint of it delivered every Saturday from the milkman. We were a family of 4, and we were expected to make it last the week

Eternal Beau!! My Aunty had the whole set, everything matching on display in her dining room. I remember thinking how sophisticafed it looked

We still have external beau plates at work😂

I always thought Laura Ashley was so posh. A friends house was decorated in it. I eventually had my bedroom done in it.
Wish I still had the duvet as if live it niw. So pretty.

Oh and Sainsbury's. We shipped at quick save it possibly the co-op.
Sainsbury's and to a lesser extent Tesco were just never considered. Too expensive

Pesto! Pesto!!!

The only green things that come out of a jar were peas.

Agree with Vienetta and Little Chef.

Soda stream.
Going on a plane.
Using the dining table.
Take aways

Now I'm going to have to go and make a pineapple upside down cake!

When I was young my best friend’s mum was impossibly glamorous to me — (early 60s but before ‘The Sixties’ IFSWIM) auburn hair piled high on her head, thin, arched and pencilled-in eyebrows, deep red lipstick, stilettos and pretty summer frocks.
She smoked black Sobranie cigarettes in a cigarette holder, and also had the multi-coloured cocktail Sobranies in the pop-up cigarette box.
They even had barbecues, in about 1960, FFS!
She was the epitome of posh to me —and I blame her for my 20 year cigarette habit— but I think now the family was (errrm don’t know how to put this without sounding a total snob) sort of Nouveau Riche in that very late 50s to early 60s way. I think they drove a Jag too. But she did look fabulous, if a bit like a young Fanny Craddock.

Salmon. I remember thinking it was REALLY fancy and expensive.

McDonald's was a massive treat, even just a banana milkshake!
Mr Kiplings French Fancies. My mum always made cake so shop bought cake was posh!
Lucozade! We only ever had it when we were seriously ill!

Vienetta.
The icecream van (am 1 of 4 and if we were allowed an icecream on a day trip, mum used to stop at the supermarket and buy a pack of icecreams).
Takeaway
Soda stream
Mcdonalds, a whole meal without having to share.

About once a year, when driving to see relatives who lived far away, we would stop at a hotel for ice cream. The hotel itself looked like what I imagined a fairytale castle would be, and we got to order ice cream bowls. They came in stemmed bowls, had balls of various ice creams, with whipped cream and fruit. It was bliss for little old me.

Hmm, actually I'd still feel fancy doing that, even though the ice cream in flavours other than vanilla, chocolate or strawberry wouldn't seem too exotic these days!