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

[WrSad]

I would say

Having 3 bathrooms

5 bird roast for Christmas
Champagne for brunch
Port after dinner
400 thread count bed linen
Silk scarves/blouses
Floppy hair on men (my working class bf has the floppiest hair!)

I can't think of anything! I knew people did things differently in different homes, we were included in that and that surely still applies. As long as I felt and feel comfortable when visiting, 'posh' didn't enter into it.

My nanna used to do her own version of a prawn cocktail. It had prawns, smoked salmon and avocado in it. The sauce was salad cream, tomato sauce and a dash of Worcestershire sauce. Also a bed of lettuce.
It was in the 70's/80's. She was well to do, but had never set foot in harrows. Bog standard prawn cocktail wasn't posh enough.

Doing the full weekly grocery shop in Marks and Spencers ! I still think popping in for a few treats every now and then is exorbitant.

My aunties aforementioned sunken bath was burgundy. She also had a wood panelled lounge (original 1920s, not MDF glued on the wall like all these DIY on a Budget loons)

My DP tells me that he would have considered me posh at school as I used to have sandwich spread sandwiches cut into triangles. His were paste/ luncheon meat cut in squares.
My sandwiches were always white bread though so clearly I wasn't that posh!

Actually that probably is posh !

I was accused of being posh when I commented in passing that we were redecorating the downstairs bathroom. Therefore making it obvious that we had more than one. I’m not posh and it’s not posh, but the layout of our modest house makes it necessary to have two.

Very fluffy plush white carpet. Glass coffee tables. Built in wardrobes

Definitely cruises!
Smoked salmon, olives, brioche
Drinking fizzy wine - I guess because everyone drinks Prosecco now and it’s so cheap but champagne would only have been brought out for very special occasions when I was little.
Seedless grapes were such a treat. I can remember rummaging through the shopping bags in anticipation to see if my mum had bought the seedless ones.
Also, I kind of remember blueberries just coming in and being referred to as a superfood (I know they are but they’re just a standard fruit to us now)

OMG definitely Vienetta here too! And that sauce that went hard when you put it on ice cream. Not even slightly embarrassed that both mine are food related

I hope the person in charge of Vienetta marketing got an industry lifetime achievement award.

Since lockdown 3 I have been doing my main shop in m &s. Utter decadence. My bachelor uncle used to live on m &s ready meals we were in awe and would talk about it all the way home. We only had boring old homemade food

I remember being taken to a Beefeater pub at the age of about 10 and thinking I was at the Ritz or something. I’d never been to a ‘restaurant’ before. We had mocktails (orange juice and lemonade with an umbrella and a plastic monkey on the rim) and fish n chips

I wouldn’t be seen dead in one now! (Do they even exist anymore?)

Back in the late 80s one of our relatives did her shopping at Kwik Save but she would put her shopping in Sainsburys bags cos Sainsburys was considered posh. The other was is I got a Saturday job in a jewellery shop and my Nanna was so proud of that, she thought I’d made it, she had worked in a jam factory in the 1940s and often used to get burnt by the red hot jam, so she thought working in a jewelry shop in town was very posh and would tell her friends about her granddaughter (me) and my job lol

Being allowed more than one banana a week and having heating in the bathroom

Mash made with real potatoes. I grew up with Smash or a supermarket equivalent!

Calling your dad "Pa"
Foreign holidays
Horseriding/dance/music lessons
Diffusers
Soap with a hand pump (instead of a bar)
Swingers

The Sunday Times Style Magazine. I thought it was the height of sophistication when I was a suburban teenager.

OP doesn't seem very interested in the replies...

Having a telephone.

We used to go see my great nanna, she lived in a nun run oap home. It was a beautiful old house with a sweeping staircase. Kids were not allowed to set foot on it. We always took her out to a trusthouse forte hotel, they had bowls of large crystal brown sugar, naturally my sis and used to dip a damp finger in.
My mother was a total snob.
We used to change the car every 3 years. The first I remember is eex784t, then ppw318w, then dah66y. We stopped when we gained a dog. I dont need to remember them, I'm nearly freaking 50!

Alpen Museli.

I remember visiting my wealthier Aunt back in the '70s where Rice Crispies were absent in favour of Museli. I thought it a 'posh food', particularly because my mother said it was too expensive for us to have at home.

As a kid I thought it was posh to have...

Leather sofa (even a black pleather DFS one)

Vienetta (first thing that came to my mind and it was one of the first answers on the thread! 😆)

Ferrero Rocher (Ambassador-level of push)

Danish cookies in a tin (now a Poundland favourite)

Growing up in the 70s here too:

Half a grapefruit for breakfast followed by toast and honey
Avocados
A fruit bowl where you could help yourself when you wanted instead of having to ask because what was bought had to last a family of five for a week
A downstairs loo
A coloured dial phone
A caravan
A BBQ, even if it was just sausage and burgers
A Chinese takeaway to share
A holiday in Spain

These were all regular things in very privileged posh friends home. Things that now I wouldn’t give the time of day.

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