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

I gamely tried to read this thread as "lighthearted." But I just. . . can't.

Yeah, same here. Not buying it.

do you think there's a Greek Equivalent to Mumsnet where they're all currently watching this thread and pissing themselves that people think their children are fancy for eating olives and hummus? Maybe they've got a thread where they sigh and say little Tarquinius will only eat real chicken Nuggets imported from England don't you know.

Yeah, I'm annoyed MN deleted the other one too as apparently "you can't punch down" even though it was people making jokes about themselves. Patronising.

I wonder if the harking back to what was considered posh in the 1980s is because that is when the traditional working class was decimated. These days anyone can buy anything (mostly from cheap supermarkets like Aldi), get clothes from anywhere online, uni is not a preserve of the middle classes, you can get cheap flights to areas of culture and the south of France etc so it's harder to prove your middle class credentials and it's literally coming down to whether your dc are asking for nuggets or olives in some people's eyes.

We all just pay to live to the ultra rich anyway so I don't see why people get so up themselves about what they choose to buy from them.

The pastries are shit in Waitrose. I was gutted when we finally got a Waitrose and realised it was crap.

Brioche and hummus are distinctly working class foods. How anyone would could think them otherwise I've no idea. Cheap, mass produced food.

I love MN for its sense and cop-on usually but this thread is remarkably hideous.

I agree baby Morrison's has much better baked goods.

Minty XH is an arachnologist and used to call DD his little reicinulid (sp).

Also still laughing (not really) at the 3* hotel one; my kids think Premier Inn and Travelodge are posh.

When DS stayed in a nice expensive hotel with his girlfriend, I asked what the room was like, he replied, "Ugh, it's nice, but really, it's just like a Premier Inn with a lift."

Yesterday 23:46 RichardSimmons

I've learned on this thread that if you grew up on a council estate or otherwise had humble beginnings, it's OK to openly boast in a way that would otherwise be distasteful twattish about the poshness of your current life. I still don't understand the whole charade of pretending it's funny/embarrassing

So when such people learn that it is crass behaviour and a real "posh" person would not behave like this. The word "posh", I feel, has aristocratic connotations so perhaps they will never learn...

Corrected version:
So when do such people learn that it is crass behaviour and a real "posh" person would not behave like this? The word "posh", I feel, has aristocratic connotations so perhaps they will never learn...

''Ooh yum! White flesh nectarines (DS2 reading the Aldi mag)
Why don't they ever have Kale? I love kale.''

(failed at the Aldi bit didn't I?)

It's funny how some people always want to piss on other people's thrice cooked chips.

People stating that eating Brioche/olives/hummus/quail's eggs doesn't make you middle class. The faux offence taken. And the foot stamping and cries of, "That's not middle class... No, you're not middle class, I am, I'M MIDDLE CLASS!" It's all very funny.

But it stinks of 'know your place, peasant'.

I just assume anything which used to be expensive or hard to find is middle class as it costs more money and might only be available in nicer area shops/delis

I don't know what class I am. I don't work as I can't afford child care, we have 2 cars (one is 12 years old - also a MG, currently off road, in the garage). We have camping and caravan site holidays as well as long haul to see in laws. I shop at Aldi. Most of the kid's clothes are hand me downs or bootsale stuff. Same with mine.

Please help.

But it stinks of 'know your place, peasant'.

Nah. I think it's just bafflement at all this self satisfied 'my child likes olives/hummus/asparagus, he's so middle class. Tee hee hee.'

They're just bog standard food stuffs.

Eddie, my lack of humour relating to this thread has sod all to with people ascribing class-values to various foodstuffs, I understand that if such things weren't a part of your childhood it probably seems quite astounding your children are exposed to a wide range of experiences that weren't available to you. I take no issue with that.

What does bother me is the faux naive posters who find it hilarious that their moppets have grown up to be sneering and sobbish human beings (no doubt taking the lead from their delightful parents) The fact that they find this a cause for humour makes me embarrassed for them really.

These days the average supermarket pot of hummus is probably far cheaper than a Rustler's microwave burger.

Why would anyone be proud of their children asking for pain au chocolate or brioche for breakfast? It's cake. Is it because it's French? And presumably French food is far more superior to English food.
That's not to say I object to a big hunk of cake for breakfast along with a milky frothy coffee.

I agree with hairy. Real "class" is having good manners and applying them, and not judging other people, regardless of what they eat and what level of hotel they stay in.

But it seems a bit extreme to keep posting on a thread that is clearly taking the piss out of itself. It's not even serious. OP even talks about the kids not wanting their fish fingers and chips next.

I'm proper working class me, so I pissed myself at my husband calling the £2 Tesco cheese selection the 'cheeseboard'. We don't have a fucking cheeseboard.

I can see why a few posters have pissed people off, but aren't they on every thread?

The spirit of the thread was to laugh at our middle class pretensions, not to take the piss out of the middle class or claim that we are, when most of us clearly aren't.

If the thread pisses people off, why still read it? Some have been scoffing since pg2, but still keep coming back to criticise. It makes no sense to me. If you don't like it, just don't read it.

The spirit of the thread was to laugh at our middle class pretensions, not to take the piss out of the middle class or claim that we are, when most of us clearly aren't.

Not sure I agree with that. I'm not getting a 'haha we're making fun of ourselves' tone. I'm with HairyHands, it's just embarrassing.
Well actually it's much more than just embarrassing.

EvilDoctor, that's funny! Did your DD respond to that?

EddieHitler you're dead right. We are laughing at how pretentious our children sound to us, perhaps the use of the phrase "middle class" has made it all go tits up? I don't like the idea of children referring to servants of looking down on others for 3 star hotels though but the rest of it is pretty much harmless/amusing surely?

This thread reminds me when my mum accompanied my dad (or should I say papa? 😉) on a business trip to NY in the 80s. She was nervous because there was a visible police presence in the area & lots of security in the building. She had hoped the bank would put them up in a nice area. She was staying in a luxury condominium off Park Ave. 🙄

On a side note she would flatly refuse to spend more than £20 on trainers for us as kids. #deprived.

She was staying in a luxury condominium off Park Ave. 🙄

Oh goodness, I love all those little details!