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?

@Respectmyauthoritah

Another one that thought the Range was posh! I wonder why so many of us think that? The illusion was shattered for me when the local one opened up with an Iceland inside and the grand opening was attended by Barry Scott from the Cillit Bang adverts 😂

The Range beside me seems chicken feed 😂😂😂

Its not quite the same but growing up I always linked Nottingham with Robin Hood so I expected a historic town centre surrounded by trees full of beautiful old buildings more like York or possibly Newcastle. I expected a lot basically. It's a nice enough city but not at all Robin Hood ish.

@NewModelArmyMayhem18

Most 'conspicuous consumption' 'posh' items are the reverse! And 'posh' is not a word used by that demographic!

Yes, well, I think that the whole point of the thread is a mistaken child's eye view of what counted as 'posh', rather than actual UC vocabulary or possessions/activities. The driving-gloves-wearing English cousin my poor mother considered 'posh' was clearly, when I re-encountered him as an adult, a paunchy, socially-aspirant LMC Rotarian who wore golfing clothes and said 'my good lady wife' without irony.

Owning a TV rather than renting.

@Wildern you are correct, except I'm 37 :P

My partner has promised to take me to The Range when lockdown lifts (It's not that I'm pathetic and can't go by myself, I can't drive and its on the other side of town).

I used to think recliners and reclining sofas were only for rich people.

Fig rolls
We never had them in our house, I thought it was because they were too expensive
Then I tasted one...

I grew up with many of the things in this thread that others thought we posh. In many cases they aren't/weren't posh, just symbiotic of having money or being part of a certain class or clique.

The only thing I thought was properly posh were the landed gentry, particularly those with titles, until the family who lived opposite mine bought themselves a title. Definitely not posh!

Viennetta is a funny one, I was born early 80's and we only had Viennetta when it was the desert served with the KFC family bucket meal. We had KFC once a year and it felt like such a huge huge treat. Before lockdown I had KFC every week :/

Saying that we had a frozen chocolate gateau or cheese cake from Bejams every Sunday.

I had to look up how to spell gateau, so I'm going to say people who can spell gateau without looking it up are posh :p

Staying in a hotel - any hotel of any kind! We always went self-catering and never anything else. Also any sort of holiday abroad where you flew, we were always in the UK, apart from one holiday to Ireland (which is of course abroad, but I think I was thinking more of going on a plane to somewhere hot and sunny).

I bloody love The Range, last time I was there I went in for crafting supplies and ended up with the supplies, a sugar thermometer, a bag of sandpit sand and a child’s plastic garden chair 🤣 I shouldn’t be allowed to visit unsupervised!

I used to think living in the country made you posh, until I seen what money could buy In the rural area around me and how little/no amenities you had

Smirnoff ice. When I was a teenager, it was a really sophisticated alternative to beer if you were under age drinking in a pub.

Cake forks are posh

I have cake forks.

I also have steak knives and fish knives and forks.

I live on a council estate. I am not posh.

Letting the horse in the drawing room and having saddles in the sink

London was posh to me. All of it, without exception 😆. I had a friend whose aunt lived there and she was always going on about her visits to stay with her, when they would go on visits to Tower and Madame Tussaud's. I found out much later that this aunt actually lived in Leighton Buzzard, so not posh and not even London. She'd just talked it up to make people think she was holidaying in a delightful little pied a terre in Belgravia or something.

@scpips

Letting the horse in the drawing room and having saddles in the sink

I thought having a drawing room was posh 😂 Also a dining room that was only for special occasions!

Turning left when you board a plane
Housekeeper
Nanny
Groundsman
Jewellery you need to insure
perfect hair and nails. Always
Gravel drive with two entrances

@DianeCherry

Turning left when you board a plane Housekeeper Nanny Groundsman Jewellery you need to insure perfect hair and nails. Always Gravel drive with two entrances

I pretty much still think all these are posh!

So do I!!

@Finelinehere

Vote for Range rovers here too... I see them everywhere!

Whenever I see a white Range Rover, I never think they’re posh I just think they must be massively in debt for that car!

I have cake forks. I also have steak knives and fish knives and forks. I live on a council estate. I am not posh.

@sashh The cake forks themselves could be posh as a concept, even if you yourself aren't posh. And maybe you're the exception that proves the rule.

@me4real

I have cake forks. I also have steak knives and fish knives and forks. I live on a council estate. I am not posh.

@sashh The cake forks themselves could be posh as a concept, even if you yourself aren't posh. And maybe you're the exception that proves the rule.

I didn't know a fish fork was a thing, I've just googled it and I'm still not sure how its superior to the standard fork for eating fish? I kinda get cake forks, smaller and with the cutty bit, but still feel like cake is either firm enough to eat with hands or messy enough to need a spoon.

I always thought desserts like cheesecakes or gateaux were posh.. My parents only got them if they had friends over for drinks or dinner, and I was allowed a slice the next day, if I was very good and didn’t disturb them!
Yes to porches and conservatories (although I guess they still kind of are, as they tend to be on bigger, more expensive, properties).
Having a piano at home and piano lessons (I rather coveted a piano as a primary age child).
Anything horse-y, wholesome or outdoorsy! My mum didn’t like me watching Blue Peter because it was middle class and pretentious (which is pretty silly, because my parents are middle class). When I moved from my “naice” primary to comp for secondary, lots of people thought I was posh (the ultimate insult!) because my parents were together, had a bought house, and we went on foreign holidays.

When I was a child, membership of a health club. Now everyone has a gym membership that they don’t use

Skiing holidays.
Owing a pony.
Wine with a Sunday Roast.
Brand named stuff.
A meal out in a restaurant with any day trip, as a kid only people with money did that.
Driving a four wheel drive vehicle.
Renewing wedding vows.
Buying new furniture rather than secondhand, now upcycling is all the rage.