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!

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Well I cant remember the name of the building & It was to illustrate what a knob she can be.

Well I can certainly pretend to be middle class - this morning I wore my green wellies and drove my estate car ( complete with Labrador in the boot ) to the stables to see to my horse. But in reality, the wellies are Harry Hall, not Hunter, the car is a 15 year old Peugeot ( do I win the oldest Peugeot competition?! ) and the horse was a birthday present 22 years ago that I can't get rid of. And don't get me started on bastard Brioche! Nasty, dry and sweet, give me a sesame seed bap any day!

What a pack of little Hyacinth Buckets the upcoming generation in the UK seem to be.

Emmageddon, do you mean me with the brioche and pain au chocolat? That's precisely what I was saying, I'm not proud of it 'cos it means I'm being a lazy fucker giving him cake for breakfast. Plus, as I said, my mum used to buy them from our northern Morrison's over 25 years ago, so hardly pretentious.

On collecting the DS from primary school recently, he very loudly shared his disgust that he'd been directed to the tap for a drink "mummy, they drink water from the tap!!". It had never come up because we have a fridge water dispenser, but I was thinking anyone overhearing (including his teacher) will think he's been brought up solely on bottled water

I'm trying to think which foods I ate as a child in the 1980s that my parents would have this kind of reaction over.

Maybe...

French bread

Pizza (even though it would have been the really awful early supermarket pizzas with that awful soggy base)

Spag bol

Never heard of a brand named 'Hatley' so I'm obviously still in the gutter despite having a fridge full of humous and blueberries.

The dcs have eaten all the nice snacks now, we are down to apples and digestives until I go to a supermarket strangely now everything else Is gone apples are ok!

I can remember my parents buying blue nun wine for sunday evening, black tower was considered posh and drunk at Christmas or taken as a present when going out.

joblessjoy your ds has never seen anyone getting a drink of water from a tap?

I'm trying to think which foods I ate as a child in the 1980s that my parents would have this kind of reaction over.

Maybe...

French bread

Pizza (even though it would have been the really awful early supermarket pizzas with that awful soggy base)

Spag bol.

Haha, we'd have all three in one meal! Findus French bread pizza with Spaghetti Bolognese.

And I thought we were the height of sophistication when mum starting making Moussaka in the early 80's.

Minty she loved it! To be fair, she was kind of tick spider shape when she was little! 😄

The cat will only eat Waitrose Organic cat food.

If it's not organic she sniffs, nibbles and walks away.

On a busy bus recently DS loudly referred to the cupboard in the hall as "the boot room". He doesn't know this is a joke between me and DH. Second floor flats don't typically have boot rooms as such.

Lol at anyone thinking they're a certain class for what kind of food them or their children eat. The stone age would be laughing at us! Its food ffs hahahah

Children are such a hoot.

On a busy bus recently DS loudly referred to the cupboard in the hall as "the boot room". He doesn't know this is a joke between me and DH. Second floor flats don't typically have boot rooms as such.

Ooh cringe. I used to say 'pantry' for any sort of floor to ceiling cupboard when I first got to this country because that's what we said back home. Didn't realise people might take it differently here

haha - ours refer to the "spare" bedroom - junk room (too small for a bed, too big to be a cupboard) - as "The Music Room" since there is a electric piano and a guitar in there.

Sounds rather grand the way they say it.

"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."

Well, yeah...precisely.

Why keep coming back to something that's causing you such intense embarrassment/disgust? You must be masochists...

EddieHitler me and my friend loved french bread pizzas! We used to bunk off of school, go back to my house and have french bread pizzas, onion rings and alphabites

You've reminded me of my favourite Saturday night tea when I was a kid.

A French bread pizza with a mini individual garlic baguette that Tesco used to sell. I bet you can't get them any more.

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Just found this thread ...so funny😂...I'm from working class background, I've got the estate car, dogs, le chamau wellies (king of wellies dahling) and my dds love sushi and avocados...when did that happen!!

Is pantry posh then? We had a pantry (cupboard under the stairs) with a marble shelf which we stored food in before we had a fridge.

DS2 requested olives for tomorrow's picnic this morning.

Sorry to go back to the crisp sandwich but you're all wrong. Ready salted crisps, sliced white bread and salad cream. Mmmmmmmmm.

Not ham evil?