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?

@user1471439310

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

Yes - that’s exactly what it is

Also, blocks of note paper for writing notes (before mobile phones and texts, everyone used to leave notes for each other - remember doing that?

Posh people had blocks of square notepads for this purpose. My mum used the back of old envelopes or receipts etc. Obviously it's more eco friendly but that wasn't fashionable back then.

Timotei shampoo. The girl in the advert really sold it and it was the shampoo to have. (needless to say, we didn't).

Imperial Leather soap. Again, it was the advert with the posh family in multiple?!? luxury baths in the luxury bathroom and some sort of soap-chute to send the soap round to each other We had Palmolive. Hard, green, didn't smell of anything particularly, non lathering and cheap (presumably, it had to be in our house). For a short while we had Wright's Coal Tar soap and that felt posh!

People who didn't have the generic BT house phone in the 70s/80s, phones with buttons rather than the dial were the ultimate in poshness.
Sitting at the dinner table rather than plate on nap, had a friend who served me soup with bowl on a plate thought that was posh when I was Young.

@HeelsHandbagPerfumeCoffee

Calling Your tea supper, said as suppah

Think you mean "sup-sups"

A friend had a melon baller and I thought that was so fancy and grown-up. This was approx 5 years ago...

Soda stream
Caravanettes
People who went on holiday to somewhere other than a relative's house
Bidets (although are they maybe still posh?)
People from further south
Shops with an escalator

My parents have a hatch between the kitchen and the dining room and my cousins all thought we were posh because of it.

^^ Speaking of soap, Pears was posh then and still is now.

@DailyMaui

That is so very funny?did she know she was Tina two balconies?

Oh she LORDED over us, with her two balconies. She knew

Tina sounds like a legend

Suppah pronounced all posh like, having suppah instead of yer tea is ready
Never heard of sup sups it does sound posh now you mention it, all horse & hound.
Come in for sup sups everyone, gather round the aga

funny kids names like Peregrine, etc- now chavvy
Cocktails
Handwash- turns out posh people like actual soap
dining tables
people who wore Rugby shirts, see also sailing clothing.

Oh, I just remembered another. I remember that Greggs used to do bread rolls that looked soft as pillows with a dusting of flour on the top. They looked amazing compared to the standard rolls from the supermarket. We never had them though.

@Lesina I went into Anderson and McCauley in Belfast to buy a pair of black jeans circa 1990, as I was too pudgy for the women sizes so I bought men's. I considered that shop very posh.

We had the same upbringing @minniemoocher

Our biggest treat was being taken to a Chinese restaurant in a seaside town 10 miles away. We chose from the set menu so usually had a fruit juice to start then chop suey for main and an ice cream to finish. As I got older I chose the soup starter. I felt so grown up and spoilt. My parents were always on a limited budget, bless them for those treats

Not washing enough. The gentry I knew as a child smelt of dogs and old jerseys - I had no idea you could be both rich and clean.

Pears was posh then and still is now.

Not since they changed the formula.

When I was younger my mum shopped week to week in a very savvy way financially but we eked stuff out, especially shampoo etc . I can remember a friend who had a cupboard with months worth of toiletries.

Now, I could wash our hair and bodies and teeth for months with my stash! Although I benefit from 2 for 1 and Costco bulk buy.

Re the bidet, my chap fitted one for a customer who is a taxi driver and a Muslim, I understand they are culturally popular with Muslims. He got in his cab frequently after and used to ask “alright Mez, how’s your bum washer?”

Rugby!!! When my kids were small, I imagined the local rugby club would be really posh. But when we turned up it was basically a dated bar in the middle of a field, with a distinct layer of mud and smelled of bacon butties.

Babycham. Especially if it had a glacé cherry on a cocktail stick in it. Was a teenage Christmas treat and super sophisticated!

I so wanted to go to Pontins when I was little

Also Northampton was the height of poshness for me growing up, as we had relatives there who had a bigger (council) house than us!

@AngieBolen I thought Pampas grass was supposed to be a sign people were swingers?

I had a 'studio flat' when I was 19, I thought it was well posh. I still remembered it as being amazing for well over 20 years. It's only recently I've realized what it was like.

There was wood (laminate?) flooring which I though was really swish, there was less of that around in 1996 I think.

It also had a single bed you could fold up against the wall.

I hadn't realized 'studio flat' is just a bedsit at the time.

I still see Vienetta as posh..

Eating out in restaurants. Never happened when I was growing up,

I remember as a child my mum bought Alberto Balsam shampoo & conditioner once and said we hadn’t to use too much as it was expensive. I was just thinking about this yesterday when I bought a bottle of it for £1!

A big house
Piano lessons and a piano at home
Prawn cocktail. Never have eaten the worms, but they were posh in my day. Never will eat the little fuckers either.
Mum and Dad working and having a childminder who came in/a nanny I suppose. My mother was a SAHM.
Having a cleaner
Having a Mum who worked in a professional job
Getting grinds or tuturs
Not having everything 'own brand'.
Being bought new clothes. I always had hand-me-downs
A car that drove when you turned it on and didn't need to be pushed outside school to get it going
Continental quilts duvets
Postcards from holidays abroad
Uncle from London coming home with a really fancy car with lights that sort of closed themselves down and then came out again when you turned them on
The dentists, solicitors, vets and doctor's children
A Dad who did the Times cryptic crossword (dentist)
Drinking wine, particularly red wine
Drinking anything other than cider
Staying overnight in a hotel rather than taking the drive each way in the same day
Being in a hotel at all. I think I was in my 20's before I ever stayed overnight.
Having a credit card

Grapes. We never had anything more “luxurious” than bananas and apples.

I still see grapes as an extravagance and only buy them for my daughter. I dare not eat them as they’re not for me!