To not understand why food is such a class issue in the UK????

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This is prompted by the food bank thread in Chat. If you haven't read it, it's basically various posters claiming that porridge and honey are "posh" foods that "normal" people don't eat...

Anyway, I have lived in the UK for over a decade and still don't understand this obsession with categorising food in such a way. What is the origin of it? Many of the foods considered "posh" are basic foods which normal people around the world have eaten for hundreds or thousands of years, and are still eating them.

Why are chick peas sneered at while baked beans are ok?

Why do people prefer to give their kids cornflakes and think that having porridge is something to laugh about?

Middle class people get very aerated about food choices, I'm not sure anyone else does.

See again, my real life experience doesn't reflect that.

Some people on Mumsnet who claim to be middle class certainly do though.

Mind you, the same people can often be seen on weight loss threads, saying they need to lose 3 or 4 stone.

Mumsnet and real life, seems to be like 2 magnets at opposite ends lately.

You can't pretend you're not posh, StampyMum, when you've said 'compote'.

Btw, Custard Creams cause more accidents than any other biscuit.

Not sure how that relates to the thread but I thought I mention it.

Didn't Prince William ask for a rich tea wedding cake?

Are oat cakes what the uberposh call flapjack? Sorry KingJoff they're more like a plain oaty cracker, definitely not as frivolous as a flapjack!

I do my porridge soaked in milk and a tsp of honey overnight in the fridge. I believe that method is creeping into 'hipster' territory. Im not sure what class that puts me in but I'm definitely not a hipster I don't have a beard or a trendy hat I'm just a lazy mofo in the morning.

Chickpeas however are delicious roasted in olive oil with garlic salt, rosemary and Parmesan.

www.theroyalchef.com/2011/04/the-royal-wedding-cake-recipe/

Although a flapjack is infinitely posher than a Rocky Road or Penguin, if that's any comfort

Worra
I work in the City and it's Nutribullet and green smoothie central.

Stephen Fry bought C&C some tea made from monkey shit for their wedding.

Ties in with the thing I said earlier about pretending to like vile tasting stuff.

If porridge/honey are posh, my breakfast of porridge and maple syrup must be off the scale

My mum grew up really, properly poor, and they pretty much lived on porridge when my grandpa had used all the money for booze. When we were kids my dad ate it every morning because he said it was "fuel" for his 12 hour shifts. Definitely not posh!

A lot of this is less about the actual food, and more about the fact that class permeates all aspects of our culture, even if slowly how this manifests itself changes (as does class itself).

*I'm Scottish, porridge snd oatcakes were poor people's foods here. Perhaps they've gone all trendy elsewhere?

I like them both and I thought oat cakes were actually a good thing for the food bank confused*

I suspect if you live in Scotland they will be fine, that was basically the response on the food bank thread as well. Oatcakes = posh food in England and normal food in Scotland. I've experienced this in RL actually, we were at the Beamish (Living History Museum near Newcastle, absolutely fab) and they had oatcakes drying above the stove in the farmhouse and all the English people were fascinated by this alien foodstuff. They were all amazed to discover I had actually made them myself.

Penguins are the dog's bollocks though.

And the old Rocky advert was awesome.

"Thick choc. Creamy choc." With the dancing birds.

Oatcakes are ridiculously overpriced. Must be the poshness premium! I'm too poor to buy them. Aldi's Hob-Nob-alikes, however, which are also made of oats and about three times the size, are dirt cheap. So I buy those :)

Perhaps oats lose their poshness when sugar's added?

Anybody else had mealie pudding, or skirlie at Christmas?

I can't believe the English use meat in their stuffing, the stuff I grew up on was made with pinhead oatmeal and onions. My dad makes the best skirlie ever.

My grandparents were off the generation that are porridge cold, with salt on it (barf). Some Scots homes had a metal lined drawer for pouring the porridge, for cutting and serving as 'peices'.

Oats are surely the cheapest food available. Porridge is almost free. How anyone can think it posh is bonkers. Just shows yet again that class differences are rarely actually about money.

Custard Creams cause more accidents than any other biscuit.

Only custard creams? Or are bourbons included?
What about jammie dodgers?

Never mind this posh porridge bollocks, I need to know about dangerous biscuits.

Here:

www.google.co.uk/search?site=&source=hp&ei=CBhJVrrWOMLwapOugtAF&q=custard+cream+dangerous+biscuit&oq=custard+cream+da&gs_l=mobile-gws-hp.1.0.0l2j0i22i30l3.1656.7240.0.10307.17.17.0.8.8.0.1347.4032.1j9j0j1j7-2.13.0....0...1c.1.64.mobile-gws-hp..2.15.2099.3.rhtUYTPifLo

Pick an article. There's loads.

Custard Creams are proper scary.

Did they eat cold sliced porridge on its own?

Garlick Aldi do oat cakes, they are in the cracker section. I am in Ireland though, maybe they aren't sold in the UK.

Marcipex that made me snort
I was going to explain that it's more that I used to live in France than that I'm posh, but I don't think that's going to help...
I'm really not posh