Stuff you thought was so sophisticated the first time you ate it/did it?

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I’m having tomatoes on toast for breakfast and remember being offered that for breakfast in NZ on my first long haul trip 30 years ago when I was 18 and thinking ....bloody hell tomatoes on toast ...how sophisticated is that.

A mature student friend invited me round for «supper» after studying. His wife cooked us chicken breast with cream and mushroom sauce. Like, not from a packet or anything. Actual mushrooms chopped up. Served with rice, actual rice.

This was very exotically middle class for a wee girl fae Dundee in the early 90’sz

First time I tried gammon at a friends house - was raving about it so much parents were A prawn ring at a party seemed very posh and then a mates mum serving paella with real crab claws blew my mind

Sushi, I didn't believe it would fill me up. It still doesn't fill me and I end up craving for pizza.

When I went to a neighbour's house aged 8 she offered me some orange juice but not in a glass...in a little carton with a straw attached!!

a sugar bowl full of multi-colour sugar

West of Scotland?

MIL had this. It was always served in a sugar dish in the shape of a coal scuttle, with a wee shovel that hung on the handle, for shovelling the sugar. It was her pride and joy. I'd never seen the like. FIL always made the same joke about how long it took him to paint the sugar grains! They could buy it in only one shop in Glasgow.

For me, it was the first time I was served coffee in a cafetiere, that had to be plunged. Thankfully my more sophisticated friend knew what to do. Now it's just normal.

Smoking MORE cigarettes or cocktail cigarettes, sometimes even using a cigarette holder. Having a small sherry with Christmas dinner.

Using a pinch of a pot of mixed herbs to make a spaghetti Bolognese.

I remember when an avocado was described as an avocado pear. Always.

Ditching the blankets for a "continental quilt". Mind. Blown.

@ICouldBeSomebodyYouKnow , I had a bit of a start and thought you might be my mum! Yes to the silver coal shovel and jokes about painting but not Glasgow!

A few dates in and DP was still peacocking, he took me to Bibendum for oysters. I’d never tried them before, i tried to be sophisticated and posh but I couldn’t swallow them, my throat closed up and I almost gagged a few times. He could tell I was struggling because my eyes started watering, he found it hilarious.
He paid up and we went to McDonalds.

I think, when the waiter wore white gloves.

Chicken noodle soup in a Chinese restaurant when I was about 6, so early 80s. Mum and dad's anniversary, babysitter fell through so I got carted along.

I was blown away by the pretty porcelain bowl and matching spoon which seemed very exotic and exciting.

I'd also never seen flocked wallpaper and I though it was dead posh

Lambrusco.

Carpaccio.
Sorbet between courses.
Silk cut.

(I don't know why but I feel like a massive twat looking at that list )

"He ate a cake with rose petals on it a couple of weeks ago". This made me feel all warm inside DH was brought up a bit like that and I remember so clearly when he went on a plane for the first time with me. He was so excited. It was very endearing.

The first time I had a fondue where you cook your own little pieces of meat.
The Japanese restaurant where you all sit round a giant hot plate and the waiter makes a show of frying stuff.
The first time I ordered a pot of tea and not a coke in a cafe.
The first time I went on a plane alone. Not with parents. It was blissful.
My first visit to yo sushi.
My first spa visit. It was mainly sitting about a pool and reading. I was so fucking bored. And the facial and my massage had tea tree oil in it so I woke up the next morning covered in spots. I don't do well with tea tree.

The first time I was allowed one of those shell shaped wafer things with ice cream in from the ice cream man. DPs always insisted they were for grown ups and we had to have a cone or lolly (now I've got my own dc I can see why, very messy) so the first time I was allowed one I knew I was grown up!

KittenSnuggler We were allowed to select our birthday dinners and I always chose Vesta Chow Mein - mostly because I was so impressed with how the crispy noodles were cooked!

I think mine was when I graduated from Liebfraumilch to Niersteiner. Oh yes, I knew my wines

Best friend's sister making a salad dressing using oil and vinegar..not just pouring it out of a bottle. I really didn't think that it was possible to make at home. And they did that every day in the summer.

When I bought a pain au chocolate in France, which I ordered in French, when I was 13.

Drinking Cosmopolitans with my housemate in 1995. It was the height of sophistication for us.

Sophistication? Don't talk to me about sophistication, I've been to Leeds!

The first time we were allowed Marks and Spencer sandwiches when on holiday in Guernsey in 1993 - felt so decadent.

avocado

Having sour cream on my jacket potato in a restaurant.