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

Tonight DH and I ate a pizza that cost something like 60p, and I dipped mine in malt vinager.
I bloody love malt vinager.
Being middle class does sound fun though from some of these posts.

glueandstick it's Nutmeg and Ginger. I was in there the other day and the lovely man that works there told me. He said I should stock up. I said "haha! Good one!"

😂

DD was going on her first residential trip with school (about 6 or 7) and teachers told them they needed to be able to strip their beds etc. DD said "but won't the lady who makes the swans at the end of the bed do that"? I wanted the earth to swallow me up 😳

Your not middle class until you have gone to A&E with a case of Avocado Hand.

DD was the first (and only) child at her school to take fairy lights on school camp in year 6. She put them up around the entrance to her tent and declared that she only did glamping. This was 4 years ago and my friend said it still comes up every year in the staffroom as they prepare for camp.

^^ I've got scars from avocado hand!! Nearly lost a finger. I thought it was just me 😊

Visiting my cousin in her holiday cottage, she's made lunch for all the kids, mine pipe up:

"What are these round things, Mummy?"

They were burgers. They had eaten them many times before, honestly (just not perfectly round frozen ones...)

Your not the only one Raaaaaaaaaaaaa to get it. I know some nurses. I think its Gods way of evening out some of the working class industrial injuries with white collar sort. But I am not in your club, I am not middle class enough. Although I do have the good fortune of having friends who make amazing guacamole so I don't lose out.

I was just moaning to DH that I need to tidy up for the cleaner tomorrow!

I really hope some of these are a joke....

Yours kids never been to Maccys then,LadyLove?

My ds' first word was dadda. His second, God's honest truth, was "brioche". We aren't French.

And other ds when aged about 2.5 once had a nightmare, woke up sobbing. I went in to comfort him and he gasped between racking sobs "Mummy I dreamt we ran out of cranberry juice!"

Where's the 'Sups' lady in all of this? Remember that? ;)

My dd asked if she could have a little raspberry balsamic in her lunchbox.

I am so sorry but avocado hand should never happen if you have an avocado slicer/implement, surely you are not middle class until you have one.

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My dh had just made a batch of quince jelly (pretentious in itself), and our youngest, 9 at the time, said 'ooh have we got any manchego to have with that?'

I've got none, but I can tell you how I know I'm proper working class. DS was 6, learning carols for the Christmas concert. He refused to learn the words to O Christmas Tree and when asked why by his teacher he told her they weren't the right words and proceeded to sing in front of all the other year 2's The Red Flag. Don't think some of the other parents were too pleased when their DC's started singing about the blood of dead martyrs and their limbs lying stiff and cold but I was a very content mama

This thread is basically my life. "Mummy - there's no smoked salmon for my lunch! What AM I supposed to eat?"

DH has teased me for years about the time we had to take a bunch of supplies for the school fair, and I unpacked the Iceland carrier bag he'd packed them in and replaced it with a Waitrose bag.

Hyacinth Bucket, that's me.

We all went to Rutland County Show yesterday, and had a posh picnic of fresh strawberries, naice cheeses and bread from our deli , complete with wicker hamper and tartan rug.

On the way home, the DDs bickered about French irregular verbs...

Well, DS (aged 2.5) came with me to the bakery a few weeks ago and informed the shop assistant that he 'only likes sourdough.'

He didn't elaborate whether he was intending eat it alongside hummus or avocado, but I think she got the drift.

I'd say that's our peak.

Ds once asked in the supermarket if I could buy him some children's food "like scallops?"

Most of these are people taking the piss out of themselves in an 'Overheard in Waitrose' way. Some are just bragging.

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. She was heard by staff who took pity on her and came to her table to take her order.
I don't know anyone else who managed to get waitress service in McDonald's!