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?

Any heating outside of the living room
A clean and tidy house
A fitted kitchen
A front loading washing machine
A dishwasher
Eating at the table.....

Having/owning a horse. In reality- hard graft, early mornings, covered in mud/shit/slobber or a combination of.

Foreign holidays but with the exception of Germany 😂 went there a lot because my mum is German, but we never went anywhere else- I realise how bizarre that sounds but to child me Germany wasn't 'foreign'.

Mercedes/BMW. Lol.

@Garliccoriander

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

In the sixties, occasionally we used to have tea out at the Gas Showrooms. (Shop for selling Gas appliances). They had two places to eat. Mum always insisted we should go to the upstairs "restaurant" rather than eating in the self service cafeteria. It was probably exactly the same food but came with table cloths and waitress service!!

Chicken escalopes... remember having these at a friends house and coming home to tell my mum how posh they were. Her family were sort of middle class, we were feet much working class so these escalopes must be super posh in my eyes. I even remember my mum buying me some which was probably a bit of a push as we rarely had prepared food like that, think she got them from M&S and my dad declared them 'just a big bloody chicken nugget'

Shopping at M&S for more than a few treats, even now I don't do that although we could probably afford it, it's mainly ready meals isn't it?

Sky TV was one I thought was very posh

Adidas and Kappa tracksuits weren't posh but expensive and I thought I was the bees knees having one of each

My mom used to serve salad with sliced boiled eggs and always offered salad cream when my best friend came for tea ,in the late 70's.
She thought we were posh due to the salad cream .
I also had a continental quilt in the 70's really posh !
I still get slight excitement at the poshness of vienetta even now , and remember with fondness how there was hell to pay if anybodies slice was thicker.

Kievs and lasagne - growing up I assumed anything foreign sounding was posh. A friend at Uni had to tell me what pesto was.

I'm not getting the kitchen roll thing! Not posh - a basic essential in our house.

Those people who don't use kitchen roll just what do you mop up gross messy stuff with?

Eating out, in a restaurant - ANY restaurant Similarly, staying in a hotel. We didn’t get out much!

Caviar - but it was pretty disgusting in the end.

Also, people who sounded their ‘H.’ I have since worked very hard at always sounding mine! I’m now very posh indeed - not!

@MyOtherProfile

I'm not getting the kitchen roll thing! Not posh - a basic essential in our house.

Those people who don't use kitchen roll just what do you mop up gross messy stuff with?

a kitchen cloth that you rinse out and re use?

@MyOtherProfile

I'm not getting the kitchen roll thing! Not posh - a basic essential in our house.

Those people who don't use kitchen roll just what do you mop up gross messy stuff with?

A cloth!

Children's glasses in a style other than the three colours of basic NHS plastic rectangular frames: light blue, light pink or tortoiseshell.

@Positivevibesonlyplease

Also, people who sounded their ‘H.’ I have since worked very hard at always sounding mine! I’m now very posh indeed - not!

Do you say Hour then 🤣

Having more than one course in a restaurant. I nearly died with excitement when I went out with a friends family and was told to order a starter and dessert too (they were mega posh though and had a tennis court in their back garden!).

@tsmainsqueeze

My mom used to serve salad with sliced boiled eggs and always offered salad cream when my best friend came for tea ,in the late 70's. She thought we were posh due to the salad cream . I also had a continental quilt in the 70's really posh ! I still get slight excitement at the poshness of vienetta even now , and remember with fondness how there was hell to pay if anybodies slice was thicker.

I was so excited this xmas to include a vienetta as part of our Xmas pudding - I thought it was just too posh! No one could convince me otherwise - we clearly had the poshest dessert going 😁

Hot tubs. Used to live the idea til someone called them sex ponds. Now I’m put off! Lol.

Liebraumilch wine

A frozen foods shop called Cordon Bleu was the height of sophistication in the 1970s. Our posh neighbour only shopped there, she was the hyacinth bouquet of her day.

When I was at secondary in the middle of nowhere we had a girl join from London, everyone thought she was very posh and she'd come from London. I think she probably was relatively posh as she lived in an expensive house though possibly moved from a tiny London one but there was an assumption that anyone from London was posh.

And when I was at infants there was a girl called Sandra who I thought was so refined as she wore a hairclip, she left the school and I was very upset about it as I really admired her.

Hmm not convinced by the cloth instead of k roll. Clearly I am vair posh

That IS posh :)

I once thought liberty bodices were posh.😁 In hindsight I think it was because the girls in my class who wore them lived in very big houses.

I think we always had kitchen roll growing up but my aunt had a kitchen roll holder and my Mum used to say she was reckless with money buying fancy things like that.

@MyOtherProfile

I'm not getting the kitchen roll thing! Not posh - a basic essential in our house.

Those people who don't use kitchen roll just what do you mop up gross messy stuff with?

Same as others...a cloth. I rinse it out then wash it to be reused. Kitchen roll wasn’t a thing when I was a kid so I just never got into the habit of buying it. We have loads of cloths for single use if needs be.