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?

KingJoffreyLikesJaffaCakes

not Penguins. Korean Meatballs.

I eat Patum Peperium, obv, but call it by its other name.

What is tripe? I was given, boiled veg, potatoes, chops, beef, chicken, bacon and lamb as a child. My Dad wouldn't let us eat pasta, rice or anything like that. I only started eating other food as an adult.

Tripe is knitted blanket, boiled in vomit.

It's cow stomach.

squoosh

You must be well hipster, you know the hipster name

One of the reasons my parents visit Rome is so they can indulge their taste for Trippa alla Romana.

The fiends.

Stomach soup, grim.

At least they go a safe distance from you first.

Honey used to be much more expensive than foods like jam. So I can see why it might be seen as posh.

I prefer a digestive or cracker with cheese A digestive biscuit? WITH CHEESE?

Ooooh you dirty bitch! Away with you!

Honey is made by bees. Which are not good at surviving genetically engineered plants and the like. So ... it could once again become a posh food.
It certainly once was. But at the moment it is rather cheap, so ... Oo

OP, as an adult, I wouldn't sneer at chick peas or laugh at porridge . However, as a child I would've had no idea what they were. I don't know what this says about class (I don't think they're 'posh') but they just weren't staple foods in our home.

We ate things like ready brek, golden syrup, sausages , baked beans, oven chips, corned beef, fishfingers, smash (which is instant mash potato) pork chops, margarine and chocolate biscuits (like clubs & blue riband). I remember having fruit and veg but these would be seasonal eg if we'd gone out strawberry picking for a day trip in the summer or whatever was available from my grandad's allotment.

We didn't have loads of money and I'm not sure my parents were great cooks. Quite amusingly, neither I, nor they, would eat much of that list anymore (although my dad still likes smash every now and again )

This thread is making me hungry...

The memory of Smash has had the opposite effect on me Joffrey!

Oh God, Smash

I don't recognise the 'porridge' people here are talking about. The kind I knew growing up had to be made the night before, with water not milk. Then in the morning you'd have the grey gelatinous goo with milk poured over it and salt sprinkled on it.

If you tried to swap salt for sugar you'd get a slap fro your granny!

Lightbulbon, I only ever managed to make proper porridge with a special sort of very thinly chopped oats - I have to date only found one brand that works for me, where you only have to boil oats in water for five minutes, add some salt and it's ready.

I suppose one could work with the sort of stuff you use for muesli, but it would be much more of an effort.

Now I am hungry.

My Mum did porridge occasionally, cooked with salt and water, served with a ring of milk, golden syrup puddle in the middle.

Blimey, the Smash wasn't making me hungry!

More the porridge. I love porridge. I put sugar on it though like a heathen.

Chickpeas mixed with tahini paste and oil make hummus and that's posh!

I'm glad it wasn't the Smash Although why I find the memory of that revolting foodstuff quite so amusing is beyond me!

I fancy a bowl of porridge now too...

Actually it is only the FB volunteers who have said any of these are posh and unacceptable.

Porridge posh? Hahaha! The poshest person I know has never eaten it, where as I eat it for breakfast daily. I also buy cheap honey for my tea (I drink herbal tea so I MUST be posh!) I put brown sugar on my porridge though. And I think oatcakes are vile, I always think of Jane Eyre when I try and eat them. Seriously, what is the world coming to?

PS. I love Green & Black's chocolate, that's quite posh, and I buy it from Waitrose because Sainsbury's stopped selling the chocolate orange one. I think middle class is catching.

Green and blacks was better before Cadbury messed with it.

The thread was about food preferred by food banks, not working class people. Unless OP thinks all working class people use food banks?