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?

Cake forks are posh

Buying all your family's clothes from Next (although to be fair it is was a more aspirational brand 20 years ago than it is now)

Range rovers, hot tubs, pedigree dogs.

When I was little I thought it was posh when we had lunchenmeat from the deli counter in Sainsburys. Does lunchenmeat even exist still?!

I was going to say Ferrero Rocher. I thought they were a bit special until someone said it's nutella inside, and they are made by the same company.

Microwave ready meals

I had a a friend at school who’s parents used to keep a fridge stocked with ready meals, and at meal times, they chose one, pinged it and ate it
I asked my parents if we could do this, and they said it was a ridiculous waste of money, so I inferred from that it was decadently expensive and therefore posh

Haha some of this resonates with me as a child - limos, hot tubs/jacuzzi baths and kitchen roll definitely, my DPs only started buying kitchen roll once I'd moved out for uni ! Also J2Os and other bottled soft drinks felt v posh for me compared to just having pepsi in a glass or whatever . Eating out at restaurants as a teen, especially our local Chinese and Indian. Which are not at all posh but it felt like A Big Deal on the few times a year we would go and get dressed up etc. Simpler (and cheaper!) times...

@ThePontiacBandit

When we started going out, DH thought I was posh because I had cake forks!

I always thought Ferrero Rocher were really posh...not sure why. Certainly not something we had at home growing up. Didn’t they weren’t until my 20s!

Cake forks do sound quite posh tbh, or just eating cake with a fork!

Macarons

As a kid I thought houses that had a bidet in the bathroom were super posh 😂

Ferrero Roche but it was the ambassador’s reception TV adverts that worked on me!

Napkins - paper ones (that you get with every, eat on the go, food or drink you buy). They were for Christmas or really fancy guests!

People who had big bedrooms. We shared or one had box room!

Vienetta. Always brought out with a flourish by Grandma so I assumed it was v posh.

Going out for a meal. Important occasions only?

My husband. We often laugh about how nervous I was the first time we were on our way to visiting his family, and he was trying to reassure me that they weren't posh. They certainly aren't, and that's not a criticism

Also Yankee candles for me right up until mumsnet showed me the error of my ways

Marks and Spencer knickers. Thought to be fair I still think that

Vienetta here too. I thought it the height of poshdom when I was little.

Liquor chocolates
Coloured toilet paper
Guest soaps

Cruises.

Yes to the pedigree dogs, that's a good one!

Growing up everyone had crossbreeds. Only posh people had an actual breed.

Teasmaid.

@DoggyDoolittle

Going to the races / Ladies Day

Lol! quite agree.

As a kid-

Snowballs (the drink!) at Xmas
Foreign holidays
Thornton's chocolates

@Scout2016

I was going to say Ferrero Rocher. I thought they were a bit special until someone said it's nutella inside, and they are made by the same company.

My parents were burgled a few years ago. The sum total of the "haul" was £20 and a box of Ferrero Roche my mother had wrapped in blue tissue paper. I imagine the burglar opening it, hoping for a nice piece of jewellery and instead finding nutty chocolates.

The original Ivy restaurant in London

Have to agree with this - luckily we just went in on a whim, didn't plan it or have a big build up or anything - otherwise I'd have been really disappointed! Very average - stuffy, formal waiters and loads of photos of old movie stars on wall but the bit we sat in was dark, dingy and old fashioned (not in a good way) and the food was mediocre at best! It really needs an update!

Having food shopping delivered. I worked for a family in Hampstead just after I came to the UK and more than the two kids in private school, house overlooking the Heath, art on walls etc, the fact that Ocado turned up weekly with groceries just absolutely sold me on their poshness.

Twelve years on and I seem to be a one-woman subsidy for both Sainsbury’s and Waitrose.

Heating. My parents could definitely have afforded to heat the house higher than 17