what’s something that absolutely ISN’T posh but you thought it was?

[WrSad]

I would say

Having 3 bathrooms

Ditto the bathrooms! We have 4 now and don't think of it as being posh! Just a nuisance to clean every day as they all get used. I also remember having blinis for the first time and thinking they were posh. They're always on the shelves in Sainsbury now.

Huge big televisions

Fresh orange juice. We were only ever allowed supermarket brand cordial.

See also Coca Cola and Walkers crisps.

Having a packed lunch at school. All my friends had packed lunches, whereas I got free school meals so always had school dinners.

Also eating at a restaurant that wasn't McDonalds (or equivalent)
I was always flabbergasted when school friends said they had been out for a sit down meal with their family. That was SO posh to me.
My immediate family never went out for a sit down meal together until I graduated from University.

I remember feeling very posh going to Harvester with friends for my 15th Birthday

oh and a car, we never had one when we were kids

Bidets
Ensuite bathrooms
Matching towels
Matching luggage
Eating out anywhere that wasnt Pizza Hut or a Harvester and, on the same note, salad bars

Your friends family being the first on the road to have a VCR.

An upstairs in a house ( we lived in a flat)
Britvic, schloer and appletise too. I agree!
Crisps with a blue packet of salt.

When I met my husband, he kept saying that he would take me to this fantastic tea room in his home town. We went. It was hilarious. It was definitely only posh through rose tinted memories and a child’s eye. It’s a really funny memory.

Having a VHS video recorder (I am quite old...)

We were always told off for saying 'what'. So that's another one right there - I always thought it was rather posh and stuffy, having to say 'pardon', which I resented. So it's the other way around! I wish I'd known that as a comeback when I was a child!

Sobraine Cocktail cigarettes

Harvey's Bristol Cream.

Only brought out of my Great Aunt's cabinet for very special occasions. It was like the champagne of Flintshire in the 60s/70s.

Sky TV. Growing up I probably was quite posh and I could never understand why when my parents both had very good jobs, we were never allowed to have Sky. I felt like there was this whole world of TV watching I was missing out on

Walnut Whip. I had a very genteel elderly relative who visited once every few years and used to ceremonially present me with one. In my mind they were up there with caviar (whatever that was).

Hovis/cheap sliced bread. My mum was very into wholefoods and we always had horrible bread with seeds and holes and all sorts of yucky stuff in which fell apart in my packed lunch. I was incredibly happy at friend's houses when you got a decent slice. Gobsmacked when I realised that organic feckin artisanal granary is the posh one and the "perfect" bread is the opposite.

Posh people. The ones I knew were all screwing each others husbands and wives, functioning (barely) alcoholics and slagging of their friends all over the shop. It was like a Debretts does Jeremy Kyle. Just because they were screwing in their stables instead of council houses, getting pissed on vintage wines instead of supermarket booze and had titles before their names didn't make them any better.

In the early 1980s we went to a rather fancy hotel in Canterbury for lunch and I had chicken kiev. I'd never had chicken kiev before and it seemed unspeakably posh to me at the time. I was used to eating in pubs and restaurants but that's the first grown up meal I remember having (I was about 10).

I was so disappointed years later to buy the reformed horror that was a supermarket chicken kiev which bore no resemblance to the one I'd eaten!

Bidets , I honestly thought these were very posh until I went to stay in a very big old money house and they didn't have one. They had a flock of rare breed sheep, a chapel, a ha-ha and a small lake but no bidet.

Back in the day - Thornton’s chocolates - honestly.

@Cheermonger pretty though

The Dorchester, shabby bedrooms, chipped paint and worn carpets.
and we weren't in "economy rooms" either!

Clothes from George at ASDA. We were Tesco all the way and when I was 10 there was this misunderstanding about the George advert, I thought it was something to do with Giorgio Armani.

@TheMildManneredMilitant

Ferrero Rocher's

This.

I still think of after eights as kind of posh despite been about £2. As a child I thought fruit form the shop was posh, we always got an apple, orange and banana as sticking fillers, and apples, brambles or raspberries from the garden. I remember my mum thinking it was ridiculous that my friends had 5 a day (90s/early 00's)

My dc when around 3 or 4 asked us if we could go to the ‘restauraaw’.. turns out he meant macdonalds

Growing up I thought sunny D was posh! We had to make do with ‘sainsburys essentials’ or ‘basics’ juice

After Eights- maybe sophisticated rather than posh.