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"Can we go to Pizza Express? Pizza Hut is a bit common and low quality"

281 replies

Edieandkoala · 26/08/2014 11:30

Says Ds friend to me just now. Apparently, his family 'don't do' Pizza Hut.

Wibu not to take the ungrateful git anywhere for lunch now?

First time he's been to our house. So far, I've been told how small it is, asked how much dh earns, asked if this is a council house and asked why we didn't wait to have baby dd until we had a bigger house.

Ds is mortified.

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finallydelurking · 26/08/2014 18:39

Op and owlady I strongly suspect you live in my village! We are young with several children and dispute the fact we own a four bedroom detached it's smaller than a lot of families. Once had a child round who informed me 'my Mum thinks it's disgusting the council have housed you here just because you have too many kids'

Now the kids are older and I've grown up I hold a position that makes people who didn't previously wish to know me suddenly want to! Funny as fuck watching them try to ingratiate themselves!

You and your son sound lovely and pizza hut is great!

Plonkysaurus · 26/08/2014 18:39

God I really want a pizza now.

Ungrateful little swine.

finallydelurking · 26/08/2014 18:41

*despite! It's others who dispute we own our house! Grin

MerryMarigold · 26/08/2014 18:42

I took my kids to Pizza Hut today for the first time. They ate it all, which they never do in Pizza Express! And they even served themselves salad (which ds2 ate all of and the other 2 ate some of, which is more veg than they would touch in PE).

Maybe my kids are genetically common (finanically we are ok) or too used to Iceland pizza.

DisgraceToTheYChromosome · 26/08/2014 18:51

finallydelurking sounds like our village. We bought a 4 bed ex-council, and we got a lot of shit from the older residents until we changed the front door.

Actually, even the council thought we were tenants. We got threatening letters over our new fence, doubtless triggered by our NDN who has seethed with impotent hate for the last 15 years. The guy who sold us the house came under pressure from her not to exercise his right to buy, but instead assign the tenancy to her daughter.

Now she has to watch me collect the milk in my underpants. Tee hee.

diddl · 26/08/2014 18:54

They sound well, unbelievable tbh!

Don't "do" Pizza Hut but do "do" Pizza Express//

What's the difference??

i mean if you want to think that you are a cut above, you wouldn't go to those places at all, would you??

finallydelurking · 26/08/2014 18:54

Hahaha I think it's probably all naice villages! Grin

Itsfab · 26/08/2014 18:54

I can't believe she admitted she thought your DH was an out of work alcoholic! It is one thing to think it but to tell you!?!?!

His comment about waiting to have a baby have not come from him.

Wide berth to this family.

There is a mother at my son's school who did not like it one bit that my daughter was equally as clever as her very bright son. She made comments on my son. Made demands to the school and clearly thinks she is something special. I might not be as educated as her but at least my children aren't rude and I am not a stupid stuck up pointless cow. She clearly thinks she is Alpha Mum and her children are the next Child Genius Winners.

finallydelurking · 26/08/2014 19:00

Is op the same poster who posted months ago about the pta mums cornering her on a school trip at some point and saying they couldn't believe how nice/bright her child was for a fsm kid! They knew he was fsm because the school secretary told them!!! Clearly boundaries are an issue for a few people in the delightful place op lives.

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Edieandkoala · 26/08/2014 19:08

finally yes that was me!

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Boysandme · 26/08/2014 19:12

Wow, he and his mum sound awful. I'm really glad you took him home.

Hope you and DS have a lovely evening Smile

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Edieandkoala · 26/08/2014 19:12

Had a lovely dinner btw (well, ds did, I am low carbing! Salad not bad though). We have decided to make an evening of it and have come bowling. Ds is just blowing his pocket money in the arcade first Grin

Oh, and not a village, but west London! I thought I'd be a bit safer from the bitching here, but no!

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BuggersMuddle · 26/08/2014 19:18

In an odd way I feel sorry for the kid because he clearly learned that behaviour from his family somewhere but he's clearly not learning when he's pulled up on it. Which btw, doesn't mean I'm suggesting you should have tolerated it!

On pizza YA all BU. Pizza Hut and Pizza Express are shit. The only acceptable sit-in chain is Zizzi. Grin

SallyMcgally · 26/08/2014 19:19

My god, edie, they are ghastly. Hope you're not feeling too low about it.

finallydelurking · 26/08/2014 19:22

Thought so op sorry to hear they still haven't developed any self awareness!

MrsJoeDolan · 26/08/2014 19:25

West London is the most villagey place I ever lived. I was asked by a neighbour's child if I had come to this country for a free house.

PushPineapple · 26/08/2014 19:31

I know it's really wrong of me, but I want that kid to have his head flushed in the very first week of Secondary school.

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RJnomore · 26/08/2014 20:02

What makes me laugh is the inference that pizza express is not common!

I frequent pizza hut happily. I wouldnt pick it for an adult meal out ?ith DH but it is what it is, good for kids, good buffet lunch, fun and informal for the family. Pizza express is not that much different. We just don't have one within 30 miles.

Now, if he had said, pizza hut is common and bad quality, can we go to the lad would have a point!

Cannot stand snobs especially when the thing they are snobby about is frankly not any better than the other thing.

MerryMarigold · 26/08/2014 20:05

I think it was incredibly nice of you to even think about sharing your vouchers with that woman's son. I kind of feel sorry for the son, it's not his fault he's been made that way by her, poor kid.

Move to East London, it's laaarvely! (And only a very few of those kind of parents, plus we ALL have FSMs to Y6).

RJnomore · 26/08/2014 20:05

Actually no I changed my mind, the best bit is the assumption that an out of work alcoholic would be buying wine in sainsburys!

That's good.

waithorse · 26/08/2014 20:13

I remember that thread, about the FSM. Didn't realise it was the same op. What fucking awful people. Sad

tobysmum77 · 26/08/2014 20:26

Shock can't believe how bright ds is for a fsm kid. One of those statements that says lots and lots about their own intelligence!

tbh not that keen on pizza hut but would be utterly horrified re snobbery and rudeness! !!!!

I can't believe she laughed, I really can't. What a fucking liberty.

FitzgeraldProtagonist · 26/08/2014 20:32

I love both! Pizza Hut is great fun with the kids. Pizza express is my one true guilty pleasure. Missing point. Little sod.

MothershipG · 26/08/2014 20:45

Oh no! Tell me you're not in Ealing??? It's not that bad here, surely Holland Park, Brackenbury 'village' or similar???

I was just chatting with my next door neighbour whose Mum still lives in Fulham, they bought there years ago when it was definitely working class and of course now it's seriously posh and hard working families like them wouldn't have a hope in hell of affording the houses.

hormonalandneedingcheese · 26/08/2014 21:30

Fuck that shit. I wouldn't bother with her again again.

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