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

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I would say

Having 3 bathrooms

I love this thread.

For me, mini rolls. My best mate had them in her packed lunch and I thought they were so sophisticated. Also, she had a sofa in her bedroom (in an otherwise unremarkable three-bed semi), and I thought that was unimaginably fancy.

Also having non-chipped matching crockery. A lot of my friends' parents did and it amazed me; I thought they must be very fancy. I was properly grown up before I realised my mum always has chipped cups and plates because she's dyspraxic and is always breaking them!

Pesto, Vienetta and any cheese that wasn't Medium Cheddar.

Bidets
Loft conversions
People carrier type cars
Liquid soap in a pump dispenser

@ImFree2doasiwant

Saying Scone like gone.

No it's the opposite way round! Saying scone to rhyme with cone is posh ;)

A bidet
Gold Taps
Rise and Shine, Vienetta and Angel delight
A colour TV

@BeautifulStar

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?)

There's a Beefeater not far from me. It is absolute shite and serves crap cheap food but charges the earth for it.

We used to go to a different one when I was a kid, I remember having a mocktail called a purple people eater and thinking I was so grown up.

Gates on the driveway

Went Pizza Express for my 16th, which was the closest thing Swindon had to a Sex in the City style girls lunch. It was like a glimpse into the sophistication of adulthood.

Chicken Kiev
Eating at a beefeater restaurant (1980s)

@LizFlowers

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.

Well la di da

@Daisy778

My son once asked for the 'posh potatoes' for his birthday dinner. We finally worked out he was talking about potato croquettes 😂 We still ask him every birthday if he wants 'posh potatoes'

Aww, I like that description!

Shampoo! When I was young we used washing up liquid as shampoo. I recall staying with my cousin and she asked why we did that. I was so ashamed. I asked mum if we could have shampoo and she was surprised and said; 'yes if you want to!'.

Caviar. I lived in Kiev for a few years. (Most wonderful place, wonderful wonderful years). I always though caviar was super posh. Dime a dozen in Kiev. The black lumpfish roe used to be packed like a terrine and sliced. My standard breakfast on the way to work would be a slice of bread, butter and caviar (and on Saturdays and Sundays a glass of congnac) happy days happy happy days. At Christmas time I treated myself to a jar of Waitrose salmon roe (£11!!!!) and ate it in one go all by myself with a couple of shots of vodka. Glorious.

Vienetta also.

I actually thought of 4 bedrooms as posh. Grew up in US where you’re way more likely to have additional sitting/dining etc than more bedrooms. 3 bedrooms was very standard where I grew up, 4 very uncommon! Someone came over to my house & thought my laundry room was posh... even though all houses (except his?!) seemed to have them.

Trim phone
Fish knives
Garden pond (especially with goldfish in it)
Metallic colour cars (next door neighbours had a gold Ford Granada)
Rollerboots rather than those metal ones with the sliding size bar and strap.

Pantene shampoo
Vitamins

(I didn't grow up in the UK)
-Sushi
-Olives
-Seeded bread
-Strawberries (imported so expensive)
-Sparkling water
-American brand snacks like Oreos, not local (again more expensive)

-Cars that you didn’t have to manually unwind the windows of and unlock with a key
-automatic cars
-School dinners (again expensive, we'd take leftovers in for lunch)
-Staying in hotels (a part of me still feels that way)
-international holidays
-Cordless phones
-Walk in closets

Gel nails 😂

Eating dinner at a Marriott (disclaimer: was the poshest place to eat at the time where I grew up, but still.....)

Magnetic soap holder with clear glycerin rose soap on it, as per my aunt and uncle.

I think some people here are confusing being wealthy and being posh and using as examples material things (like having 3 bathrooms or designer clothes).

You can have made money and still be common as muck in your behaviour....in spite of your designer clothes and multiple bathrooms...

Grapes and prawns.
Not together!

Having 'dessert' rather than pudding
Going to private school
Having bunk beds
Voting Tory
Having a dishwasher
Being rich

Oh & fruit juice.

When I were a lass, that were a restaurant starter. Tiny glass of britvic pineapple juice from a bottle.

DM is still appalled that I have litres of the stuff in the fridge & dc get to help themselves to it. Every time we stay, she buys in a litre of orange juice & goes into shock that it gets drunk & I send the nearest dc to the shop to re-stock.

It is permissible if heavily diluted with Lidl fizzy water, but not to just have a glass of it as a drink.

To be fair, on sugar consumption grounds she has a point - but the horror is definitely based on the notion that it's an obscure luxury item that should be regarded as a massive treat.

Every child having their own bedroom

Pineapple Britvic 55.

I only used to get one when we went for a bar supper, which was very, very rare. We would dress nicely and had to be good on pain of death. So obviously the bars we were taken to were super posh.

Having fizzy drinks in the house all the time