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?

@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!

My Auntie Jean had cake forks. Very posh in my childhood mind.

Houses with names instead of numbers!

Cinzano Bianco was the height of sophistication in my eyes when i was little and my auntie used to drink it.

She had a furry cover on her toilet seat too (matching one on the lid) and I thought it was sooo posh I almost didn’t dare use her loo.

I’m imagining two balconies Tina as a right gerl. Stacey Slater

@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!

Could it be that the we think of Ferrero Rocher chocs as "posh" because the advert in the 80s was them being served at a very exclusive ambassador's function?

So we subliminally associated them with being "posh"?!

Having a toaster. We made toast under the grill and were only allowed to toast one side of the bread (why?!) Toasters seemed the height of luxury!

Owning your TV rather than renting it.

Conservatories.

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

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

Not me, but my dad always told me that cork floor tiles in the kitchen were.posh (he was a floor layer and that’s what all the middle class homes were going for back in 80s).

@headlock

Houses with names instead of numbers!

Christ yes Houses called things like Elmwood

@Mn753

Cake forks are posh

my kids always demand a fork... I think it’s falling down the posh register rapidly.

Why aren't Yankee candles posh?

Crinkle cut chips.

DD (9) plays football with a girl from a really lovely and very neat family. I once picked both girls up from school abs brought them home for tea before training. I’d had a bit of time and I’d make a Victoria sponge. DD dived in, her friend asked if we had cake forks. I felt very inadequate!

@JimmyJabs I was going to say that! I used to think I would know I had made it if I could ever afford to do my food shop in m and s! That was before m and s were everywhere 😂

@Aroundtheworldin80moves

Appletise. A treat in restaurants (like Garfunkel's and Harvester...)

The white range rovers make me smile... White is the cheapest colour... One of our upgrades was to red...

Harvester I thought was very posh and special. I remember Cowell being treated to one X factor

Only when they opened up North I realised they were nasty

I grew up thinking steak was mind-blowingly expensive and only for very special occasions. Not that I'm saying steak is cheap, but it's cheaper than I grew up thinking it was.

I also grew up believing brand-new cars and hotel stays were only for the very, very rich. (As you might be picking up from all this, my parents were financially 'stretched' but also I have a feeling these things actually might have been more expensive, relative to people's incomes, back then (70s/80s) than they are now.)

To sort of flip this question on its head, I was utterly gobsmacked when I found out (relatively recently!) that in the 60s a meal in a service station restaurant was a swanky, silver-service type affair and considered aspirational.

I went to Harrods in 1999 and was blown away by the food hall. I bought some incredibly expensive chocolates. However still not a patch on bourgh market where I tried oysters for the first time.

@LivingDeadGirlUK

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

PMSL, I remember luncheon meat, it was just Spam wasn’t it? I don’t remember it on the deli counter but I do remember “processed cheese” which was like a big slab of unsliced Dairylea.

I bloody loved it.

I too was underwhelmed by the original Ivy. I'd been to much nicer restaurants before and thought it was going to be much more special than it was!

Sopwell House - it's a shithole!

Underfloor heating
Louis Vuitton handbags
Salmon

Any cheese other than cheddar, those were only for Christmas 😂

Oh and “Staying at The Hilton” in whatever city/town we went to.

Everyone from the south of England 😂

Avocado