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

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AgentZigzag · 21/07/2010 12:03

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?

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AgentZigzag · 21/07/2010 12:54

I used to have bisto gravy on it GetOrf, and nothing else, honestly I was such a lazy arse but also

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looneytune · 21/07/2010 13:13

Another one who thinks cheese is NOT cheap. I get through tons and tons of it (childminder so lots of kiddies to feed) and I've noticed just how bloomin expensive it's become!

But LOL at it meaning you're poor!!

lazarusb · 21/07/2010 13:45

I have had my friend here watching in awe as dh made a cheese sauce from scratch, not a packet and her dd was amazed that fairy cakes can be made from flour, eggs etc. and still taste nice!

muggglewump · 21/07/2010 13:54

When I was pg I had a live in job with no shops and the food was crap. You couldn't get anything other than meals at mealtimes either so I had to take back things that didn't need a ridge to keep in my room.

I developed a real liking for instant mash, the ones in pots like pot noodle!.

I still sometimes eat flavoured instant mash when I'm ill.

DD's friend wouldn't eat the 'fancy' roll I put her burger in last week. It was a tiger roll ffs.
I don't think she thinks we're poor though.
Messy and disorganised quite possibly

muggglewump · 21/07/2010 13:55

Fridge, not ridge.

knickers0nmyhead · 21/07/2010 14:07

we get the tesco value grated chedder, tis yummy! And 1.98 a bag.

muggglewump · 21/07/2010 14:22

I hate ready grated, it has a weird coating on it.
I do buy value cheese for everyday use, but always mature. I don't see the point of mild.

NarkyPuffin · 21/07/2010 14:40

I think a lot of children have hot meals at lunchtime and a cooked meal at dinnertime.

Mmmm to real chips. I think it's fish and chips night tonight.

Dropdeadfred · 21/07/2010 15:59

I can't eat value cheese - I love Cathedral City Mature cheddar - i would never buy pre-grated cheese either

Dropdeadfred · 21/07/2010 16:07

do people not have cooked food at home with their dc's if they've had a cooked meal at school then???

ASecretLemonadeDrinker · 21/07/2010 16:14

I remember thinking we were deprived as we rarely had 'freezer food' (pizza/chips etc.) as kids, always pork chops and mash etc.

Cheese isn't that cheap, though compared to anything else decent it is I guess. I have value mild, anything else tastes far too strong for me

Shodan · 21/07/2010 16:15

A friend of ds1's watched in fascination as I broke up a chicken carcass for stock the other day.

He asked what I was making and I told him. He them asked me if 'stock was like a soup then'.

I went on to explain (briefly! ) how it could be turned into soup or used as a basis for gravy etc. He looked into the pot with the same kind of awe usually reserved for the Grand Canyon or some other such miracle.

Sad thing is, he's 14!!

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AgentZigzag · 21/07/2010 16:16

We don't dropdead, but then we don't eat our dinner until 9.

DD1 said the girl who said it eats a dinner at school then something hot like pasta when she gets home, which to me sounds a bit too much hassle

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AgentZigzag · 21/07/2010 16:21

I hate doing it, but I always make stock with our left over chicken. It's too hot having it boiling away in the summer, and makes too much condensation in the winter.

Makes bloody good soups though

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Lynli · 21/07/2010 16:29

My DS was five when he went with a friend to Mc Ds. The mother ate some chips. DS stared at her in utter amazement, because women do not eat chips, they are not allowed. She said he would have been no more alarmed had she been eating small children.
I think I have been on a diet too long.

GetOrfMoiLand · 21/07/2010 16:37

mugglewhump - I too used to love that instant mash in little pots, Sainsbos used to do roast onion flavour. I used to get through pots at a time.

They have discontinued it now, the swines.

If you are complaining about cheese prices, I once spent £28 on TWO LUMPS of cheese from a poncetastic cheese shop in Cheltenham. Two ordinary bits of cheese, about a pound of each.

£28.

On cheese.

I could have cried. I nonchalantly paid for the cheese (as if I ordinarily spent half my weekly food budget on cheese) and then went outside and swore venomously.

Deliaskis · 21/07/2010 16:42

Tis funny what you think as a child. I remember being aghast as the parents of a friend whose house I was at bickered in the kitchen about the price of a tin of salmon for sandwiches on a Sunday night. I thought that must mean they were really poor as we always had our Sunday roast in the evening and I thought they were not 'even' allowed salmon sandwiches cos tinned salmon was too expensive.

Didn't know of course they had had a roast for lunch!

I think most of us thought odd things as kids.

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diddl · 21/07/2010 16:45

My husband has a cooked meal at work, the children come home at lunch & I cook for us then.

I don´t cook again in the evening.

Deliaskis · 21/07/2010 16:48

GetOrfMoiLand at your £28 on cheese and your accompanying nonchalance about it. I once got caught out and ended up spending £7 (!!!!!!!!!) on a loaf of poncey bread from a poncey italian deli and trying to be similarly nonchalant about it.

We should get together and have a poncey (yet poor) cheese sandwich!

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GetOrfMoiLand · 21/07/2010 16:51

I was raging about said cheese shop for ages.

Felt like standing outside with a placard to warn otehr citizens.

Annoyingly the man behind the counter was supercilious and RUDE to the extreme, the jumped up blighter.

The cheese shop also sold bread, glad I didn't buy any, would have probably cost me the same as your poncey italian loaf.

THE CHEESE WASN'T EVEN THAT NICE (sorry for caps but I am still angry about this 4 years on).

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AgentZigzag · 21/07/2010 16:53

I love the word poncetastic

Just normal kinds of cheese GetOrf? Cheeky twats, I wouldn't have paid on principle.

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AgentZigzag · 21/07/2010 16:55

That sounds like I'd have run off with stolen cheese

I meant I would have told them to stuff their cheese where the sun dont shine.

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GetOrfMoiLand · 21/07/2010 17:03

One was a cheddar. It should have been spun baked smelted brewedwhat's teh word for making cheese??? MADE by god and all his seraphim for that price. It wasn't as nice as seriously strong.

The other was rocquefort. I don't even LIKE rocquefort (certainly can't fucking spell it) I bought it as a treat for DP. If I remember correctlY I near enough threw it at him and said ominously 'you had BETTER like this'.

CheeeseOnToast · 21/07/2010 17:26

Getorf and Deliaskis, I was once similarly swindled by some brocolli at an organic farm shop in poncetastic east London. I selected a medium-sized head of brocolli, took it to the till, queued for about 15 mins, and then they charged me £8 for it. EIGHT POUNDS.

To my shame, I paid it, all nonchallant-like, nodding along at the price as if it was reasonable, got outside the shop and though, "shit, I've just spent £8 on a piece of brocolli" and went back in, queued again, and said "I'm really sorry, you've charged me £8 for this one piece of brocolli - was that correct?" and chappy checked the price per weight and said "hmm, yes, it's right but it does seem rather a lot" and I replied "yes. Can I have my money back please, I don't think I can justify spending that much on a head of brocolli". There was a line of people behind me who heard every word but I just couldn't justify it.

But Getorf, £28 on cheese! It wouldn't be very nice after all that, bet it left a bitter taste...

GetOrfMoiLand · 21/07/2010 17:31

£8 on brocolli!

Well done you for taking it back.

Ia m going to start a thread about rip off food.