What wanky things do you actually quite like?

[Somebodystired]

I often see threads about popular things people don't like, and since it sometimes seems a bit trendy to NOT like popular things I wondered what slightly wanky things you DO like?

This thought popped into my head whilst eating duck pate on one of the three "artisan breads" I picked up from the bakery this morning. My DH always takes the piss out of my love for a posh bread but I care not a jot

Seriously considering getting a wicker basket to do my shopping in like is done here in Germany.

Gewürztraminer wine. Riesling wine.

Recycling glass jars.for. Everything.

I know it’s a light hearted thread but what is wanky about an avocado🤷🏻‍♀️Most of the things mentioned here is completely normal to do and eat for so many of us surely ?

Leaf tea. omg I love it. I have a special infuser cup that's just magical at work! I went out to buy more leaf tea yesterday and when I got back and told my boss where I'd been he said "But there's tea in the break room." No there isn't boss man, there is not..

Overpriced coffee shop coffee
Christmas

Farrow and Ball paint. Seriously expensive wine. Opera.

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Yeah. Utter fucking wank.

If I've been doing these for years, since before they were wanky, do they count?

@acornleaf nooooo how have I not tried that?! Scuttles off to find nut butter

Avocados
Craft gin
Cashew nut butter
Ridiculously expensive candles
Farrow and ball
Almond milk
Tea pigs

My Vespa.
Flat whites.
Sourdough toast.
Big storage jars for all my dry goods.

It’s wanky but I love them.

Spelt crackers. Who knew! Craving them right now!

Farrow & Ball
White company candles & bath stuff
Himalayan salt lamp
Pouilly Fumé & Chablis
Tibetan singing bowl
Artisan bread
Sparkling water
I’m a wanker

Thornton's chocolates

Is salted butter wanky?

I sprinkle salt on my butter in a restaurant

@marymungoandminge I used to take salt sachets to the cinema to add to salted popcorn

Twigs, fairy lights and hanging shit all around the house. No-one says a thing when it's Christmas but sneer the rest of the year.

First class air travel.

It's bloody amazing. Wanky as fuck but amazing.

If I've been doing these for years, since before they were wanky, do they count?

I'm also wondering that. I've always eaten medjool dates but have no idea who Ella is. Same with avocados. And my first FiL had one of those metal Italian coffee pots that you put on the cooker back in the 80s, are they wanky too now?

@Simkin hear, hear - nothing beats a teapot and a cup and saucer !

Twiggy pebbly shit

'Beyond 100 Days' on news 24 -not sure if this is generally considered wanky - my DD tells me it is )

Olde Worldy tea shops where all the cups and saucers are mismatched and the sugar comes in a mini kilner jar. I ALWAYS say when I sit down at the table in one 'Ooh isn't this lovely' which is a wanky thing to say probably - I don't care.

And yes to PP - Thornton's Chocolates especially the truffly ones. But I don't consider them as wanky as Hotel Chocolat or any chocolate that has chilli or bovril or shitake mushrooms embedded in it.

-Dates with an almond in the middle and covered in chocolate. Dsis used to bring them back from the UAE for me, but they aren't wanky over there.

• Bread maker bread, soooooo much nicer than bought.
• Drinking tea using my antique teapot
• Using a letter opener
• Using my weighted hook for hanging my handbag off tables when I go out.
• I love my log burner.
• Keeping everything in jars, including the dishwasher tablets and the washing powder.
• I crochet my own face pads instead of buying cotton wool ones. And they are also in a jar.
• halloumi everything

Oh god, loads

Clothes made of natural fibres
Japanese stationery
Fountain pens
My set of le creuset pot
handmade natural perfume I had to order from a boutique perfumier in the Netherlands

Is the ballet considered wanky? I also love museums/exhibitions and guest lectures/seminars.

Wanky food wise...I really like quinoa, my DM makes this lovely quinoa and aubergine thing which I used to love when I came home cold and tired from dance/gymnastics as a teen.

I like opera.
I drink sparkling Elderflower.
I was given Chia bread the other day. I'm going to have to buy some!
I have tiny coloured lights around my fireplace all year round.

@RaymondStopThat do you mean a mocha pot?

I have a bialetti one that I've had since I was about 16, I don't think they're particularly wanky just a good way of making espresso?

Ooh fantastic thread!

My Vitamix. I have a fucking kale and fruit smoothie every morning. Whilst listening to opera.

Proper coffee from a coffee machine, although, I don’t know how to use it, so I make my husband make me one before he goes to work and put in in a keep cup so
I can sip on it all morning.