to think houmous isn't that posh?

[newmummytobe79]

Friend made a tongue in cheek comment about a few of my friends babies eating houmous from weaning age.

I love houmous, therefore get to eat my babies scraps :) and have a stinky little friend along the way

Seriously - is it still considered as a 'posh' food?

Not posh, more of a student staple. A bit like baked beans in that respect.

It is one of the most disgusting things ever sold as a food stuff imo

It's not posh, but it is forrin...

It's posh as in hippy mc mummy in Waiterose posh, isn't it? As in 'Oh, Horatio, put down that nasty chocolate and come and have a lovely rice cake with lovely humous. We do love houmous don't we Horatio, and it's so good for us, yummy yummy.' Followed by a smug look and an aside about refined sugar to any other nearby parent.

It's relative. On a continuum of spreads where Dairylea, paste and jam are at one end ... hummus (also guacamole and taramasalata)... are definitely posh

YY Cogito. I would add Primula to the Dairylea end of the scale.

Where would you put Toast Toppers though?

Wilson: Exactly! That's what it makes me think of.

Seabright my daughter calls it Thomas too!

I really like it, but don't think it's that posh (I'm certainly not posh anyway!)

Random fact: thought I was going into labour but then realised I'd had houmous and falafels for tea

My friend went to a nct reunion (first get together when babies were born). They were all asked to bring food for a little buffet. 6 out of 7 of them brought hummus and crudités. Very badly organised. What made it worse was the host had upstaged them by making a large homemade bowl of it. It was obviously the thing to impress with in South London

It's scruffy hippy eco-freak California food, I'm tellin' ya.
I'm saying that as a scruffy hippy eco-freak Californian.
I find it howlingly funny that English people think it's "posh".
I may succumb to temptation and link this thread on my FB for my California friends & relatives to snigger at, too.

Toast toppers nearer the Dairylea than the hummus. Another thought. All those little hummus-munching babies gurgling at you with their garlic breath.... mmmm..... Only posh kids could get away with it.

Definitely not posh.

I'm as working class as you can get and me and my children love hummous (how do you spell it??)

Either with carrot/cucumber sticks or on a bagel ...yum!

Toast toppers are yuk in my opinion. Dairylea is nice but just an expensive version of the supermarket stuff. Used to love primula!

Clearly I have forgotten my working class roots.

What on earth are toast toppers?

www.poundland.co.uk/product-range/a-z/heinz-mushroom-and-bacon-toast-toppers/

vomit in a tin

it's pauper food

My daughter will eat tubs of it. My MiL is very sniffy about her being given it. She is very suspicious of foreign food though. I think she thinks it's a strange thing to give a child but also that we're posh to eat it.

The container doesn't make it look particuarly attractive,but what exactly is it? Is it like pate?

Or paste?

Microwave chips are pretty low brow. Imagine having guests and serving micro chips! Ping!

when was it ever consider posh? i find it rather disgusting, along with cavier, ghastly.

It wasn't seen in my house growing up until I was EIGHTEEN! Think my parents were just a little scared it. My mum calls it "humus" and ends guacamole in mol not moley. It makes me die a little inside every time she says it.

bananabubbles, are you asking about hummus? it's chick peas, garlic and olive oil and lemon juice. It's like a grainy paste

Stiffy- send dd to MIL's house with a box of micro chips to dip in her humous. That will balance out the alleged poshness of the dip.

No,toast toppers sorry,OwlLady.I should have made that clear.