What have you thought was posh, only to find out its not?

[LivingDeadGirlUK]

I have never been to The Range, I always thought it was a posh garden center. My partner has laughed at me and said its basically a Wilkos with plants. I still think that sounds pretty cool though!

Has anyone else expected something to be posh, only to have their hopes and dreams dashed?

Milk Tray - only if served by the action man, all in black of course

Another one here for the range. I heard such exciting things before it came to chichester! Then found out it was a bigger version of B&M stores. Back to homesense we go...

The word ‘posh’

Some people missing the point here. Posh things that turned out to be a disappointment is not the same as thinking something was posh but isn’t. Fortnum and Mason tea is still posh, even though you didn’t like it. The Witchery in Edinburgh is one of the poshest restaurants in the city. The fact I left utterly unimpressed doesn’t make it any less posh. I just prefer more food when I’m paying 40 quid a plate.

I used to think those hatches you get between the kitchen and the dining room were posh. In fact, I used to think having a dining room is posh.

Shloer and up until about 2 years ago I thought TGI Fridays was very posh. I should have realised when one was put next to the cinema in the shopping centre, but I just thought it was going to be so expensive.

Oh and anyone with a conservatory!

Anybody casually using their Front Rooms willy nilly was considered extravagantly posh when I was young. Our family only ever used it for special people or very special occasions. I still have an aunt whose front room is basically opened once a year on Christmas Day and is mothballed for the other 364.

Avon. We went to visit my uncle in America and my auntie was the Avon lady 😂 she got me and my sister these bottles of peach scented products and the lid was shaped like a peach! My cousin had a whiteboard on her wall with her own whiteboard pens! I’d never seen such a thing before! And even more incredible, she had a waterbed and it was a double.

Also, the Body Shop, I’m surprised no one’s mentioned that. We used to go in and buy tiny bottles of shower gel. Oh and bath pearls, they were really posh.

When I went to boarding school, the really posh kids had real trunks instead of suitcases. I so wanted a trunk!

Boisdale in Belgravia. Full of wanker bankers too dim to realise that they were being charged a fortune for absolutely rubbish food.

Oh and I also only found out that the Range isn’t posh this Christmas. It does sound posh.

Most things that people see as "posh" are actually vulgar.

When I'd only just started buying wine - Mateus Rose.

You really need to put this in the context of Belfast, which didn’t get any recognised major chains until well into the 1990s... I was once stunned by my mum and my aunt arguing about which was more upperclass... Tesco or Sainsbury’s...

In my early 20s, I was a bridesmaid and the night before the wedding, the immediate family hosted a dinner at a local hotel. I sat next to the best man and was very impressed that instead of a dessert, he ordered cheese and biscuits and insisted there was celery on the plate. I thought that was really posh at the time!

Having a corner bath like my aunt and uncle. A hostess trolley too. Coasters for your drink. Having any kind of starter at a meal. Cups and saucers, we only had mugs at our house.

Yes body shop has had a shoutout ,that was well posh

Soda stream machine, sugar cubes, those tea bags with the strings attached, and the chocolate mints that were round and individually wrapped in gold foil.

I really hope your convent was also a school, or else you had a very interesting community.

Cake forks are very definitely posh and have no place on this thread. I don't care how many kids ask for them - until they hand out little tiny forks with a knife on one edge with the birthday cake at wacky warehouse I will not accept your assertion.

@Lesina

You really need to put this in the context of Belfast, which didn’t get any recognised major chains until well into the 1990s... I was once stunned by my mum and my aunt arguing about which was more upperclass... Tesco or Sainsbury’s...

Sainsbury’s no question!

As a child in the sixties eating out a rarity. I thought knickerbocker glories were posh.

Me too! Whatever happened to knickerbocker glories?

Wine bottles as candle holders with months worth of old wax bubbled down the side.

Cushions on the bed. Nobody had cushions on the bed except in films.

Orangina I always thought the bottle was lovely. Had it as an adult and didn't like it at all.

Being a doctor was posh to my grandmother. If you were due a house call from the local GP, you had to drag yourself from your bed, even if you were in verge of death, and make a pot of tea and cut some slices of seed cake, which you would then serve to said doctor in the 'best' front room which was only ever used for entertaining him or the vicar. And you had to make sure the bed had the good sheets on it, not army surplus blankets or old overcoats 😂

I'm in the US and are kitchen rolls paper towels like bounty? I use them for messes and cleaning Windows all the time.

As a teen I thought a glass of babycham with a cherry in was the height of sophistication.