Since when has a cheese sarnie been an indicator of disposable income?

[AgentZigzag]

DD1 told her friend she usually had a cheese sandwich when she got home from school.

Her friend asked her
'Why? Are you poor??'

Where do you recon her friend got the idea that a cheese sarnie means you've got no cash?

Perhaps she thought she meant that she had a schees sandwich for her dinner.

Mind you what's wrong with that anyway?

Strange opinion to have.

lol zigzag, is the friend more used to smoked salmon and cucumber sarnies than good ole cheese?

I have no idea why that would make you 'poor'

Get your DD to tell her friend it is homemade, hand rolled mozarella cheese!

Oh shit, meant to post in Chat

Apologies

cheese is usually the cheapest bought sandwich at supermarkets...

bread and cheese is cheap. her friend probably assumed that bread and cheese was dinner. Children often do have strange ideas.

What an odd thing to say.

YABU

Her fave is actually cheese, marmite and tomato in a tiger paw roll, or feta and cucumber mmmmmm

She has dinner at school, but her friend must know this as she's in the same class, perhaps she'd forgotten.

Awww thanks stipey, I thought I might have been

Blimey-just me who doesn´t think cheese is particularly cheap?

I would ignore the comment, just one of the strange things children come out with.

Just the other day DS2's best friend (5yrs) informed me, rather solemnly, that the reason I wear glasses is because I went boss eyed too much as a child.

cheese is well expensive

cheese is too expensive for sandwiches in this house - its good old value chicken roll or ham for lunch or tea here!

I was howling with laughter when she told me Crack, it was such a classic, I'd never thought cheese sarnies could hold such symbolism

We're all cheese freaks, and the discount bit at the shop usually has some good cheese bargains.

We always had a hot "meat n 2 veg" dinner when we got home from school so, aged 10, it was a shock to be invited round to a friend's house and be offered a plate of sandwiches, crisps and biscuits as 'tea'. I did wonder at the time if the family couldn't afford proper food.

You do have wierd attitudes around food as a kid.

I remember classing someone as poor because they had maid Marian (corner shop brand) orange squash instead of Kia Ora.

And I was intimidate by wholemeal spaghetti at another friend's house and thought it meant that the family had stomach problems.

And wondered what the hell was wrong with the mashed potato - I thought it was disgusting (it was made with read spuds, Iw as used to smash at home).

Yuk at value ham - sorry but that is just watery crap. At least cheese has calcium in it.
Yum a tiger bread...want some now...!

Chil-strange isn´t it how as children we tend to think everyone else does the same as us.

We used to go home for a cooked lunch so I would have been to be offered a cooked meal in the evening.

I remember thinking people who lived in old houses were poor when I was a kid.
For no reason at all except we were more well off then my frineds and we lived in a new house.
Kids have bizarre llogic

Iwould also have been utterly unthinkable to not have a roast dinner on a sunday as well.

I remember a friend whose motehr was cooking a homemade lasagne for sunday dinner - i watched her fascinated, it seemed like the most exotic thing imaginable.

Tell her to tell her friend it was an artisan loaf made from locally milled organic flour, topped with mozzarella made with milk from a biodynamic buffalo herd.

That should shut her up

Another of DD1s friends couldn't get enough of our chips and thought they were really weird, it's cos I made them fresh and she'd only ever had oven chips

I haven't had it for ages, but I lived on smash when I was in my 20's, it's just so smooth

-smash
-half a pound of cheese grated in
-wrapped in blanket on sofa watcching Friends reruns.

Bliss.

I am allergic to cheese

Wonder what that says about my income LOL

DS1 got quite upset once at a friend's house as she gave him oven chips, he had only ever had chips from the chip shop whilst on holiday! He couldn't understand how they came out of the freezer.

My friend still takes the mickey out of me over it now