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?

A valance sheet on the beds. I was desperate for one but just had a flanelette stripey sheet.

Going on holiday abroad - we only went in caravans on the Yorkshire coast.

Anyone who lived in a private house and not on an estate.

Chicken Kiev’s, Lambrusco wine

The ballroom dancing on 'Hi de Hi' was sooo glamorous
I thought the whole yellow coat thing was amazing. I was about 8
My mum laughed and laughed when I told her as an adult

Oh and statues in the garden! Naked ones! Cheap venus de Milo ones.

Something I never thought of as, "posh" but that DD's house mistress at school remarked upon. At the sixth form, "leavers' breakfast" which the house mistress in her school boarding house organised in her own flat each year, DD took a knob of butter from the butter dish and put it on her side plate to use for her toast during the course of the meal while the other girls apparently scraped along the top of the butter with their knives full of toast crumbs each time they wanted to butter another slice. The house mistress went so far as to remark on this, saying it showed she'd been taught excellent table manners but why, DD asked, would anyone wish to contaminate shared butter with their toast crumbs?
The really rich and posh we found, are possibly the most slobbish of all. Same DD took a holiday job charring for a local, frightfully posh and arty family, the mother of which ran holiday drama courses which same DD always longed to actually take part in but we could never afford (always culminated in an open air Shakespeare performance in the grounds of one of the local stately homes). The tales she brought back of their slovenly ways and disgusting habits and practices used to turn my stomach!

Phone for the fish knives, Norman
As cook is a little unnerved;
You kiddies have crumpled the serviettes
And I must have things daintily served.

Are the requisites all in the toilet?
The frills round the cutlets can wait
Till the girl has replenished the cruets
And switched on the logs in the grate.

It's ever so close in the lounge dear,
But the vestibule's comfy for tea
And Howard is riding on horseback
So do come and take some with me

Now here is a fork for your pastries
And do use the couch for your feet;
I know that I wanted to ask you-
Is trifle sufficient for sweet?

Milk and then just as it comes dear?
I'm afraid the preserve's full of stones;
Beg pardon, I'm soiling the doileys
With afternoon tea-cakes and scones.

Bayliss & Harding!

Found out from MN that they are common as muck.

Hummus
Pesto
Olives
Bread sticks
Avocados
Aubergines
Courgettes
Feta cheese
Proper brewed coffee in a cafetière

My mum was a pretty bland cook and I used to think those foods were the height of sophistication .

Liquid hand soap in the kitchen - we used to use washing up liquid. Most of my family members still do!

Mortgages- I grew up on a council estate, my parents and almost everyone I knew on benefits, posh people had mortgages.

Olives.

Growing up in the 70s

A phone
A second TV
Video
Coloured suite in the bathroom
Carpet in the bathroom
A padded velvet headboard for my bed
Holidays abroad
Any 'foreign' or slightly exotic food. This included vesta curries!
Eating out
Baby Cham
And yes to the Sobranie cocktail cigarettes (this would have been as a teen early 80s)

@Rosehip10

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

@Rosehip10 that's the whole point of the thread

@AnaisNun

Oh oh! Hot tubs!

The HEIGHT of posh- and a bit sort of glam-(to my mind) when I was a teenager.
Now all I see is a virulent soup in which to dip a suburban paunch.

I'm name changing to suburban paunch!

@HeelsHandbagPerfumeCo a salt spoon is just that, a spoon for taking salt from the salt cellar and putting it onto your plate, on the side to dip your food into, never sprinkle!

Britannia hotels 🤢

@Tana433

I always thought the lady who says in the advert "Ambassador, with the Ferrero Roche you are really spoiling us!" was being very sarcastic because she was peed off that there weren't any butties or at the very least a cheese and pineapple hedgehog available at his party.

Ha ha never thought of it like that! I've always wanted a Ferraro rocher pyramid and treated myself to one off the Internet for my last birthday- it was heaven 👼👼👼

Betjeman. Posh but raving unconcealed snob which detracts a bit I think. Might demote him.

@Ifeelsuchafool who knew! So Saxa from the packet doesn’t cut it

Red wine. My mum/dad never drank it but their friends did. I thought it was bc it was expensive. I was shocked to discover £2:99 red wine in supermarkets in my 20's and that my mum - in fact - hates red wine 🍷🤷‍♀️
I on the other hand love a glass of red!

People who owned their house rather than council.

@ByTheStarryNight

My Granny's bathroom was posh to my naive eyes Carpet on the toilet lid. Barbie with a knitted skirt over the spare toilet roll. A glass bowl with blue and white cotton wool balls in.

I could only dream of seeing cotton wool in our house. Such extravagance, we had 2 face cloths each; one in use, one in the wash.

The irony is I've stopped buying cotton wool as an adult as it feels environmentally irresponsibly, and I use a face cloth instead.

You had a face cloth each? That's posh. We had one for the whole family to share!

Real parmesan cheese. We always had the pre grated shavings in a sprinkle pot.

A house with a hallway big enough to have a table in the middle of it was dead posh when I was growing up - rather than the stand on the bottom step of the stairs to open the front door then move up a step so people could actually come inside.

A swimming pool in your garden

Those liqueur chocolates shaped and foil wrapped to look like bottles. My mum used to be so thrilled when my dad bought her those.