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?

I prefer a digestive or cracker with cheese, I am not keen on oatcakes.

My dad would stand at our cooker smoking a fag, in his string vest making a vat of porridge that we had with salt. You had to watch for the fag ash, it was vile but certainly not posh

I shop at Aldi, TheFear, but oatcakes are too expensive for what they are. I'm a benefit scrounger, such things have to be 'treats'. Their Oaties (the fake hobnobs) are much better value

I've just discovered oatcakes only need 10 mins baking, though, so I might make some. I would never have looked that up if not for this fred!

Joffrey, I like champagne, fish, olives, truffles, pop tarts and WKD.

Really?

Truffles taste like mud...

Joffrey, my life has been completed by knowledge of The Biscuit Injury Threat Evaluation. I can now die contented.

Possibly after choking on an Oatie (7th most dangerous biscuit.)

There is absolutely no point in schools etc wringing their hands about lunch boxes, healthy choices etc, unless we can get a proper, agreed, uncontroversial labelling system in place. There has been too much inconsistency and too much conflicting advice for too long - no wonder parents feel confused, defeatist, and don't know what to do.

I propose the following series of universally understood symbols on packaging:

Little top hat - posh - for things like patum peperium.
Little gap beaney - middle class - for Jamie Oliver foods
Little baseball cap - working class - for things like pot noodles

It's ok to step outside of your class once or twice a week only, as part of a balanced diet

I must be letting the whole of my class down here, but I've never actually thought of making oatcakes. I think that's probably a step too far.

Lockthetaskbar ( to the tune of the clash??) You could have a little sombrero or fez for furrin foods.

Holstein - yes! (to both)

Wednesday is a year anniversary of when my bun had her operation and lost her ear.

We all thought she was going to die.

Was thinking of making a sugar free hay and dandilion cupcake for her.

That's quite posh, surely??

I get such fucking rage about pork belly. My gran used to eat pork belly because it was cheap. Slow cook it for a week few hours, and it's just about edible.

Now you pay a fortune for it and it's all over posh menus.

BLOODY TRAVESTY.

Who lost an. Ear

Ah, well, lyles golden syrup on us porridge obviously, not honey. Shit maybe I'm not posh! The tin is posh though, cos the queen has it.
I like lockthetaskbars labelling system. We'd all know where we were.

I suspect odd bits will come back, ox tail, tounge and trotters.

Tripe.

Hipsters are going to love tripe.

Another Scot here amazed at porridge and oatcakes being posh. What's next? Posh stovies?

Oatcakes are really easy to make and taste even better if you use ultra posh lard. A very health conscious Californian friend thought they were amazing. I didn't tell her about the lard.

My Dad had a serious incident with a pop tart

We had tripe soup once a week, if it was not all eaten we would have it the next day. I was given a good hiding once for pouring the leftovers down the toilet as I could not face it two days running. Nobody who has been forced to eat tripe soup enjoys it.

My late Granny came from a mining family of 13 in central Scotland. I remember that she always used to crumble oatcakes into her stew to make it go further. Not remotely posh.

'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.'

Oh definite hipster territory dontpokethebear! If you've been doing this for years this marks you out as a hipster innovator.

Overnight Oats I believe the furry of face and Victorian lion tamer of dress refer to them

@LockTheTaskBar: Such a series of symbols is long overdue! They already paint foodstuffs (and, apparently, pain medication) for women pink so that men don't accidentally eat them, they should do the same with food!

After all, without neatly dividing classes and genders, we could end up in a Marxist nightmare of a classless and genderless society! The horror!

Oh, sorry, I meant, they should do the same with food for poor people so that rich people don't accidentally eat it. I mean, they might catch poverty! Has to be avoided!