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 called across the aisle in Sainsburys to my daughter the other day;
'Have we got enough tahini?'
Not a life and death situation, but worrying all the same...

I think they have been to McD's once or twice, Highalert (we're a Burger King family, don't you know), but I think they'd only ever had a burger in a bun, rather than just on a plate.

DS just asked if we had any Balsamic to put on his steak. 😮

MNHQ,

If this thread isn't deserving of immediate Classics status, then my name's not Cressida, and I didn't formally complain to Waitrose about their granary loaf's disappointing millet to amaranth ratio.

And I'll be asking none of you round for Kitchen Sups...

Seing as there's a wanky thread of this nature at least monthly, a classic it ain't.

But crack on, whatever floats yer erroneous ideas of what confers imagined social status.

Teen brought home something a friend at school gave her to try. Twinings' Earl Grey teabags. When I was that age we used to share a packet of chewing gum around, not a box of Earl Grey. LOL

What is kitchen sups?

Yeah...um...i guess my sarcasm didn't come across, then?

Sorry if you interpreted it differently, ILike; would've thought my posts upthread make it clear which camp I'm in.

I overheard DS's friend telling DS about their cat pinching leftover food. DS replied our cat doesn't need to as he (the cat!) only eats special nutitional food ordered online and he (the cat!) will only drink cat milk not water. It's shaming because it's true . When I have tried Felix or Whiskas the cat just looks at it with horror 😳

I overheard my son playing a computer game with friends and discussing which brand of organic mac and cheese was the best - the brand with the cow or the brand with the bunny. They agreed it was the brand with the cow (Horizon).

Someone offered my daughter squash at a party when she was three; she questioned: "butternut squash?"

Now that sounds like me when I first joined MN. I couldn't for the life of me figure out how you all were getting your kids to drink squash.

I've just groomed my purebred mini poodle and tonight my 7 and 9 year olds are playing violin and flute (one each) at a school soirée.

Such a pity the rest of my life fails to live up to the image I just conjured up :)

All lower middle class, keeping up with the Jones' examples ladies - how about the next step up now, 10year old BMW in my driveway, filled with sweetie wrappers and drinks cartons, tatty house, posh area, great schools but chocolate all over my little boys jumper as he's been troughing chocolate waffles for breakfast again. Cats got fleas from the stables, but it had time to zip to the vet to get flea killer - but that bugger just managed a night on my bed so bound to be covered in bites all day!!
Joules wellies are a fashion statement and don't keep the rain out!!

These are so funny but what a pity there are so many sour posters who have totally failed to figure out that this is people laughing at themselves/the pretentious of their kids.

I was entertaining my DS, aged 3 at the time, on a flight by drawing animals for him. When I asked him what he wanted me to draw next he said "a polychaete worm". That's when I knew we had reached peak David Attenborough.....

My kids moan and groan when we go to the lounge before a flight....they prefer Starbucks.

Passed a 3 star hotel in France last year and my youngest pipes up "who on earth would ever want to stay in a 3 star hotel?'
Cue much hilarity.

Tell your youngest I would shinny. I would like it very much. I seriously hope that's a very young child you are talking about.....

Dd1 (5) had a right moan when we went to eurodisney last week because the plane didn't have beds in and there was no playroom in the business lounge

These are so funny but what a pity there are so many sour posters who have totally failed to figure out that this is people laughing at themselves/the pretentious of their kids

Really? Apart from the made up (and not funny ) ones they are not coming across as laughing at themselves- showing off is more like it.

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 has an astonishing lack of observational skills then .I'd be embarrassed to tell anyone about this. She sounds rather dim.

The most middle class response to a bomb threat by a Cambridge student:

""A police man came down and demanded that everybody got out the restaurant, so I grabbed my crème brûlée and ran."

...said one student yesterday in response to King’s Parade being evacuated and a bomb squad called out after a briefcase was found near Great St Mary’s in Cambridge.

www.varsity.co.uk/news/13165

I just don't think you get it Lass but whatever....... different strokes and all that.

She has an astonishing lack of observational skills then .I'd be embarrassed to tell anyone about this. She sounds rather dim

Oh is this why so many cafes don't have signs telling you whether it's table/counter service or not? I find that so annoying.

Actually it isn't always that obvious at all, especially if you sit outside. I'd imagine McDonalds is pretty obvious, although I suppose she was on her mobile phone and paying no attention.

In fact, a bit of a digression, I was in a restaurant last week when we were on holiday and I asked my husband what was wrong with it. He couldn't get what I was getting at which was not one person in the restaurant was on a mobile phone - they were all TALKING TO EACH OTHER! Imagine!

DS, on seeing me heating up pasta sauce (bolognaise, chiselled out of the permafrost at the back of the freezer): "Oh great, wild boar ragu?"

In his defence, we do go to Italy fairly regularly, but that didn't stop DH directing some choice, politically incorrect, Yorkshire insults in his direction.

I would respect you all so much more if you just admitted you were being smug and didn't try to pretend it is "funny." But then again I'm American so I still don't understand how "middle class" is something to be faux-embarassed about.