Oh no! I sound so middle class! How embarrassing....or not

[TangerineCandyfloss]

Hi,

Just a light hearted one, but does anyone else get slightly irritated when people tell you how mortified they are at being/sounding middle class, but go into great detail as to why, leading you to believe they're probably not all that "mortified".

Example: "dd asked me today - mummy, can we have sea bass with capers tonight? It's my favourite fish" Oh, I was so embarrassed! How middle class do we sound?!lol"

Now, don't get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with a child liking sea bass...or quinoa...or kimchi or anything else "middle class" sounding, but why do some people pretend how embarrassed they are, only to tell you or everyone on social media?

It's just obvious that they're not embarrassed at all, so actually has the complete opposite effect.

Does anyone know what I mean?

I sympathise with your DS @StealthPolarBear, white bread makes me gag too (the sliced kind, crusty bread is ok) and I would rather not eat sliced wholemeal bread without seeds too - it’s a texture thing. Had to go without bread for ages at the beginning of the pandemic because I couldn’t get wholemeal seeded

I learnt a new word today “humblebrag”. I love it!!!

@LolaSmiles

SwedishK Given there's a whole world of food between the offerings of a typical children's menu and truffle salami, it probably depends on how you said it. Most people manage just fine feeding their children things other than pizza and chips.

If it's "it's a pain in the arse going out because DC would rather have the adult meals as she doesn't like pizza" then nobody would bat an eyelid.
If it was "it's so difficult to fees DC because they'll only consider truffle salami and oysters" then yes it probably did trigger inward eye rolls.

This was about 15 years ago, so I don't remember all the scenarios when this would come up and now she's quite happy eating anything. I think the main thing that bugged me was that we could never just get her something from the kids menu for £4.99, instead it had to be a starter off the main menu for £14.99, if she was ever going to eat anything.

At home it was easier as she liked the grown up food and so do I. She did not only like those items that I mentioned, but it was those sorts of things. She just always liked trying what we ate and preferred it to what she would be fed.

I don't think I was shouting it from the rooftop, or mentioning it without reason to people. Only if I was talking with friends (who hopefully weren't that judgemental) or if she was going home with someone and they asked what she liked to eat. That last one was always a little tricky.

yes the children Maximus and Gluteus who eat HEAPS of fresh veggies,stuff themselves with quince jelly on CRUSTY bread, Slather the seeded Egyptian bread with goat butter and slurp a kale smoothie

When describing Maximus and Gluteus one must use CAPITALS to emphasise their expansive and attuned palette. They don’t eat. They SLATHER, And SLURRRRP, They GOBBLE anything EXPENSIVE, FORRIN and SOLD IN TUBS

Unlike my kids who’d eat a scabbie dog for tea if it was SMOTHERED in ketchup

Yes, it is normally pseudo middle class twats who do it. Your kids like what they like and if you happen to have fed them something a bit different and they like it, that's all it is.

I did have a weird situation when my daughter was in pre-school, I live quite rurally and had been given some qualms eggs by some mad farmer who was taking a big for a walk on a bit of string (I shit you not). At the time my child was taking one of those YumBox lunchbox things in because she didn't eat massive amounts and preferred to pick at things. I boiled some of the quails eggs and put them in the box, mostly because chicken eggs are far too big for it.

I had a weird 2 minute conversation with someone who helped with lunches at the preschool asking where I'd found such tiny eggs and had to try and explain without sounding like a twat (or mad), that tiny eggs were from quails, and not just extremely small chickens.

@1forAll74

There are quite a few women in my village here,who have moved up from London , to live a more rural life here. They seem to think that we are all peasants here. They randomly post on the fb community pages, and one this week said, Hi all villagers, I would like to share with you all, a fabulous recipe that I have used for a while, but understand that many of you might not have heard of some of the ingredients I have to use, But my family absolutely adore this meal. and yours will too.

We do have some great bakers and cooks in the village ha ha, but now we have our own replica Nigella in our midst..

That happens here too. It's as if they're unaware we have tv and internet and access to websites to sell things.

They normally travel an inordinate distance to have their hair done too, for £200 more than it would cost here, all because where she goes someone gives her a biscotti.

SwedishK
But how did you know that she liked sashimi, oysters, seaweed salad, carpaccio, truffle salami etc. Did you feed her an oyster whilst you were having yours?

@GravityFalls He just sounded like Little Lord Fauntleroy.

I properly LOLed at that!

@daisyjgrey

Taking a big for a walk on a piece of string? .... errr what?

@1forAll74

There are quite a few women in my village here,who have moved up from London , to live a more rural life here. They seem to think that we are all peasants here. They randomly post on the fb community pages, and one this week said, Hi all villagers, I would like to share with you all, a fabulous recipe that I have used for a while, but understand that many of you might not have heard of some of the ingredients I have to use, But my family absolutely adore this meal. and yours will too.

We do have some great bakers and cooks in the village ha ha, but now we have our own replica Nigella in our midst..

I’m intrigued what her special London ingredients were! 😂

@1forAll74

but understand that many of you might not have heard of some of the ingredients I have to use,

That's so patronising! I have to know what these strange and exotic ingredients are. I bet they're things you lot grow already in your back gardens, but she buys them from Ocado for a million pounds.

@UnderHisAye

It's such a blatant humblebrag. My friend does it 'Oh, little Quinoa won't eat school dinners, she has to have hand-crimped gyoza for lunch, wrapped in bee-friendly linen.'

Meanwhile, Quinoa is licking the fucking dog bowl.

🤣🤣🤣

@cravingthelook

A pig!

@Mildmanneredmum

SwedishK But how did you know that she liked sashimi, oysters, seaweed salad, carpaccio, truffle salami etc. Did you feed her an oyster whilst you were having yours?

Yes, she was always very open to trying new food. So if I ordered oysters, she would try one. She wasn't like 6 months or anything, she could talk. If I put a fish finger in front of her, she would try it and then decide she didn't like it and so on.

I’m intrigued what her special London ingredients were! 😂

Me too. Maybe pineapples? Oranges? A crazy unknown spice called nutmeg...

@ThatOtherPoster

I’m intrigued what her special London ingredients were! 😂

Me too. Maybe pineapples? Oranges? A crazy unknown spice called nutmeg...

I’m thinking paprika

Can't say it happens to me.

@1forAll74 I like the lofty hello villagers tone, oi, you oinks! the native hoi polloi don’t you know we sold a house in NW3 to move here and Christ knows where is one to find fresh pasta for an Otto lenghi tonight? Tell me that little village people

Because we're re-enactors, my boy often ends up going to school with weird food. (That he enjoys, I mean, things that we've made or eaten at events and he likes.)

Venison pasties, yep yep. Roman cheese, yes indeed. Apple and orange peel tart to Mrs Oliver Cromwell's recipe, we've been there.
He's like the go-to guy for school food projects now. "What did Vikings eat Junior Mole?"
"Well, last week we had pork and barley stew, smoked cheese, and flatbreads..."

I once told nursery then 2yo would only eat home baked bread. They laughed at me and I sounded a complete twat

(There was context by the way... She wouldn't touch any form of bread product or potato. I was just happy she had eaten something relatively normal. Her preferred bread is now cheap sliced white!)

Amid my cursing, a colleague said to me 'O please don't swear'. Bugger it, now I've offended her. "Sorry, Jackie,I didn't mean to upset you, I apologise" 'Oh, I'm not upset, it's just you sound too posh to swear, I can't bear it'. That was bizarre. May she never meet the Royals and their mates.

@Cattermole Because we're re-enactors ahh what a great way to start a sentence
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@SwedishK

Oh, right. In that case I was probably guilty of humble bragging when DD was little. She was an unusual child with a very unusual taste in food. She hated anything typically kid friendly like fish fingers, sausages, meat balls, cheese pizza etc. It was such a pain as these are the most common items on a kids menu but she just wouldn't eat it.

Instead she loved sashimi, oysters, seaweed salad, carpaccio, truffle salami etc.

So yea, I was often complaining about what a pain in the arse it was to feed her as she only liked expensive and hard to find food. Didn't realise people thought I was bragging,

Surely there were limited opportunities to “complain” about her estoric

@HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee always get the apology out of the way first in our house...

@UnderHisAye

It's such a blatant humblebrag. My friend does it 'Oh, little Quinoa won't eat school dinners, she has to have hand-crimped gyoza for lunch, wrapped in bee-friendly linen.'

Meanwhile, Quinoa is licking the fucking dog bowl.

Fucking hilarious!