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

[WrSad]

I would say

Having 3 bathrooms

Just having a clean and tidy house. My mum is/was a bit of a hoarder. Growing up we didn’t know any different but I was amazed at how clean my friends homes were. Being able to sit at a dinner table, because it wasn’t piled with a years worth of newspaper, was very grand.

I used to think Volvo estate cars with GB stickers were the height of poshness, especially if you drove them to campsites in Brittany .

@justthecat

It’s not posh to have three bathrooms when you’re the cleaner

What??

Sky TV.

I was young.

The hotel in the next village. Everyone who visits thinks it's a posh hotel in a posh village but really it's a standard ex mining village, full of burglars and drug dealers. We have a fair few things going for our group of villages historically, but the area is terrible if you look past the facade of a village green with nice buildings, or take time to see all but 1 of the pubs has boarded up windows. And the 'spa hotel' is overpriced and it's hygiene rating is shocking.

Shop coleslaw. M&S knickers not Ladybird. Owning more than one pair of shoes at a time. Having shop made clothes not homemade. Having a separate room that the dad used called a 'study'.

I have all those things now (and 4 bathrooms) and I'm not posh at all.

Prawn Cocktail

I went to a posh school and was the least posh and the things I can remember thinking were posh were:
people having a "cleaning lady"
more than one bathroom in the house
people travelling by coach (as opposed to a bus)
people having private swimming lessons

I went round to a friend's house and they had Heinz baked beans visible in a glass fronted cupboard in their kitchen. I thought that they were showing off a bit having Heinz not value own brand and putting the can where visitors could see it.

TVs with a remote

Eating at the Berni Inn and having a glass of ‘fresh’ orange juice as a starter..or half a grapefruit.I nearly fainted when I first found out about pate.

When I was a child I thought the following were ultra posh,
Leather sofas,
Video players,
Covers that made your videos look like books,
Matching furniture,
High heels,
Patent leather shoes,
Frilly ankle socks,
Pendelfin rabbits,
Profiteroles.
I used to feel very down market with my t-bar startrites, my parents non matching habitat furniture and our lack of video player!

When I was in high school I got the piss taken for being posh because I had carrot sticks and cottage cheese for lunch, walkers crisps and I said Grandma, cagoule and scone to rhyme with stone

@skoobysnax

Eternal beau crockery

OMG I used to think that stuff was soooo beautiful

Vienetta was the height of sophistication in my 70/80's childhood
Steak - I was once very much chastised aged about 8 for asking in a public space what steak was. I had no idea but my parents were mortified and said 'of course you've had steak before, don't be silly'. I now have small children who know to order their sirloin rare 😂
Nuts in a bowl with a nutcracker in it at Christmas
Harvey's Bristol Cream - Christmas . And my Aunty slipping me a thimble full when I was about 8. Speaks volumes for my wine bill now!
Family Circle biscuits - again Christmas only poshness.
Grated cheese on food. Once we progressed to a bastardised Bolognese circa late 80's we were only allowed grated cheese on it for special occasions as cheese was 'bloomin expensive you know'
Microwave oven - we all watched a microwaved mug of milk go round in the dark so we could see better. Mum got a 'posh' frothy coffee on the back of it.
Video recorder - we were outliers though as my Dad went with Betamax 'a far superior technology' so we couldn't swap videos with anyone else in our VHS town. A source of great shame after the initial 'posh' euphoria of owning a piece of tech.
My oldest went to a very, very exclusive private school. Then I realised I had no idea what posh meant. It invariably meant going to houses to drop her off for sleepovers where the mum was wearing wellies and a headscarf while chickens ran riot in front of the aga.
I also worked with a few people who had sons 'up at Eaton' and spent 8 weeks every summer at their 'little Greek place' aka 10 bed villa - that was an eye opener.
I've been told I'm posh before now because I use long words, have a nice house, have never been arrested and hold down a good job. It's all relative I guess.

Garlic. Never heard of the stuff prior to approximately 1986. Then some girls who I knew were definitely posh started talking about it, so I thought it must be posh.

Well I mean, it was a bit, back then, for Brits. Only middle class people used it.

Double-barrelled first names, especially when the second part is Mae.

I was trying to explain this to a friend who hails from a tower block dubbed locally as ‘heroin heights’, when he informed me that his future children will need to have double or triple barrelled names for when they visit me in my ‘very posh’ cottage. He was a bit shocked to learn that double-barrelling doesn’t make anybody posh, so has now settled on naming his child Cher, no surname, just Cher. 😌

Morrisons 😂

I didn’t grow up with one nearby, and when I moved out for university my posh flat mate used to exclusively shop there so I assumed it was posh! Definitely had a reality shock on my first visit.

It depends how old you are as to what was perceived as posh when you were a child. Growing up in the sixties, there wasn’t the big variety of food and vegetables that there is now - especially if you weren’t in a major city. For me, melon was posh. Usually served with sugar and powdered ginger (to disguise the lack of natural sweetness )and if you ate it in a restaurant ( as a starter ) there might even be a glacé cherry on top!

Spaghetti bolognaise and chilli con carne seemed sophisticated and posh, most people ate very plain food.

I went to play at a friend’s house and was bowled over by the poshness of their dark burgundy bathroom suite

Pesto 😂

@FaintlyMacabre

Vienetta

This was my first thought 😂 it was because of the 90s advert

@Nottheduchessofcambridge

When I was younger (mid 80s), for a birthday we always used to go to the beefeater for a special meal, starter of pâté, followed by steak and then profiteroles. 8yo me in shoes with a heel and best dress used to think that was the height of poshness!

I could cry at the nostalgia of this.

Children that had named chocolate bars in their packed lunch at school instead of biscuits or own brand.

Fluffy yellow dusters. Shop bought not recycled old clothes.
A spice rack. Sooo posh. I still thrill at mine, it twirls around.
A note pad. Not backs of envelopes for shopping lists.
Takeaway.
Cutting soft fruit into slices then eating it. Amazed to see this as a adult. We had tinned fruit, like peaches in syrup, growing up.

The things we didn’t have I considered posh

Heating/double glazing
Sofas instead of a car seat in the living room
Pasta or any kind of Italian meal (I’d never seen it until I was about 10)
Having your own bedroom
Driving to school
Vinetta was very posh!
Marmalade also very posh