have i reached the height of middle class pretension ?

[Gowgirl]

I've just realised I'm julienning carrots and cucumber for the moppets to dip in organic bloody hummus while admiring my shiny new bottle of craft gin.

Then I realised that they probally wont eat their fish fingers and chips now, and I spent all day mumsnetting so the house is a shit tip!

Feel free to add your own

Not me, I swear, but a woman at a course I went on who said about the oil she uses in her cooking:

"I use extra virgin, cold pressed organic coconut oil..... Well, I guess everyone does."

I looked at the woman next to me, who had this look on her face.

And I was laughing inside like a drain.

A hatley raincoat is a raincoat made by I think Canadian firm hatley. They are bright colours with patterns. They are not Barbour jacket level of expensive

Yeh I'm with you on the pretend pasta made of veg you can bloody keep that!

On the stupid twee names alive. Boodles. Bog off

I work for the Church of England, daughter goes to private school, we're National Trust members, I have a fridge full of halloumi and mancheho cheese, and shop at the local farm shop. I feel like that's the height of middle class pretension.., (especially as I grew up on a council estate but heck, I worked hard to get to position where I could buy all that cheese 😉😉🧀)

This thread is brilliant :-)

I think the time when I sighed and realised we'd entered the world of middle class problems was when I heard my DH, fed up of cajoling DD to try something other than pasta for tea, finally losing his (admittedly limited) patience and yelling, "MiniFlu, just EAT the BLOODY FRITTATA!"

He wasn't very impressed with the wails of laughter from where I was hiding out in the kitchen...!

The avocado in my m&s sandwich wasn't ripe enough for me today. Made me think of this thread 😂

and my point was that, being the QUEEN with all that goes with it, it's completely irrelevant how you call them

I think it is hugely relevant no matter who the employer is that they treat their employees as employees, not "servants"

I am allergic hummus, does that make me working class?!?

When I was younger, coconut oil was something we used to buy from Superdrug and smear it all over ourselves, whilst sunbathing in the park. Weird now that it's something that pretentious people cook with - one whiff and I'm 17 again, in a sparkly bikini, on my C&A beach towel.

Some of the posts on this thread are funny (vine leaves play doh is brilliant !) but some remind me of the time my friend moved to the capital, posted a picture on Instagram of a tea strainer and wrote "if you know what this is you probably live in London" totally non ironically

OMG I love you lot. Cheered me up after a hard day.

lass I admire your energy and emphasis, but if this thread is pissing you off so much then why on Earth subject yourself to it? Whatever you post in ire, isn't going to make a blind bit of difference.

Ds told me he'll only come to Croatia in summer if there's an infinity pool. That's when I realised our lives were very different to how they used to be.

It was a thread about a thread

My DD, 3, will only eat gingerbread men from John Lewis. Had a tantrum over a Tesco one recently...

lass I admire your energy and emphasis, but if this thread is pissing you off so much then why on Earth subject yourself to it? Whatever you post in ire, isn't going to make a blind bit of difference

Yes, I don't find this thread funny at all. Especially the posters proudly reporting the "hilarious" sayings of their snobbish children.

It's all a bit sad. Most of my working life has involved dealing with seriously posh people none of whom carry on like this.

DD had not been to McDonald's until she was a student and had no idea that you ordered at the counter. She sat down and started complaining over the lack of service

We took a colleague to lunch at a local greasy spoon. She sat and waited until we told her not to expect silver service in a greasy spoon!

My grandson 's (age 6) favourite lunch is sushi. When he was offered a trip to McDonald's as a treat he asked to go to a coffee shop instead.

I expect the WC thread was deleted because we can't have that sort of thing on MN.

I'm sat in my council flat waiting for my Asda order that I paid for with my child tax credits watching Can't pay? We'll take it away. Dd is watching people pull toys out of playdoh on YouTube and eating potato waffles. Dp is washing dishes for minimum wage until midnight.

Ds is in his high chair demolishing an avocado. He's been getting above himself recently.

My cousin lives abroad and her daughter attends a private school. One day she brought a very posh friend home for tea, but her friend stayed in the car after they'd gone into the house. It turns out that the chauffer normally opened the door for her!

In Waitrose I overheard a toddler telling off his parent because 'oh mummy you got yoghurts, but you KNOW I prefer panna cotta'.

ohemgee.