Refusing to buy certain cereals for my DC?

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Does anyone else refuse to buy Coco Pops, Krave, Cookie Crisp and such like for their DC on the principle that 11g of sugar (more than a Freddo) for breakfast is just wrong?

I don't care what people call eggy bread, but I do think it's rude to call someone posh

I’m not sure why it’s rude to call someone posh at all, but I’m especially not sure why it’s okay to outright insult people for calling it eggy bread but not okay to mildly joke about someone using a posher term.

Non U is not used by proper posh people.

My Grannie was a Lady (as in married to a Sir - my grandfather) and she HATED snobbery of any kind, especially the kind where people were trying desperately hard.

Our cereal cupboard is stuffed with 8 different varieties, including both sugared and plain. Sometimes my 11 year old ds has a bowl of shreddies before bed too. Luckily I have bigger things to worry about than my negligence.

It's called eggy bread. French toast sounds very American.

Non-U did used to be used. As I said it isn’t now. It was fashionable to be a snob until the 1960s. Princess Margaret and her mother were absolutely dreadful snobs. It’s not fashionable now, it’s very unfashionable. You can see that if you compare (for example) the attitudes of PM and the QM to Prince’s William and Harry’s for example. It was fashionable to be ‘posh’ or ‘grand’ but that went out of the window in the sixties when our society became more meritocratic and continued with the abolishing of the heridetary Peers seats in the House of Lords. I think in general people with titles rarely use them in everyday life now and regard them as a bit of an embarrassment (Like W&H went as William and Harry Wales at school and in the army).

Sorry, I’ve worked in a job where I picked up all this useless nonsense.

Being a Sir or a Lady also doesn’t necessarily make you posh either. Even Heather Mills still technically has the title Lady. Sorry.

This has very little to do with eggy bread, but the Queen herself and her husband are reknowed for their non-snobbishness and down to earth attitudes and I would take an educated guess they would probably call it eggy bread.

Being a Sir or a Lady also doesn’t necessarily make you posh either. Even Heather Mills still technically has the title Lady. Sorry.

That’s a very fair point. To be fair. My grandparents were bona fide posh before the knighthood. BUT never snobs, ever.

I distinctly remember my Grannie being furious at a local Morrison’s becoming a Waitrose because it would attract the snobs

She also went by Mrs, rather than Lady because she thought it sounded pretentious!

I like the sound of your Gran! I would be absolutely furious if my Morrison’s got turned into a Waitrose but as I live in a working class suburb of a Northern City that’s never going to happen.

I used to live in LondonI and worked for an organisation which had extremely posh clients whose assets they took care of who were sometimes hosted. I was involved with that, sadly it was not the side of the business where the money was and I was a bit of a glorified head waitress I suppose. It was interesting because I started there in the mid 90s and there were still quite a few old school aristos around then who would get very cross if their titles and the correct form of address they expected weren’t used. It was interesting because their children would never complain or correct, but they would perceptively wince if somebody got it wrong and the staff member might be had a word with or corrected afterwards, as the years went on, the next generation just didn’t give a fig. I don’t work there now, think the organisation itself has disappeared into multiple mergers with other companies. But I understand that the children of that last generation are positively embarrassed by their titles now and play it down as much as they can and sometimes feel it’s a bit of a disadvantage.

I can think of Emily Thornberry, Heather Mills, Tony Benn was a Viscount who renounced it, Harold Macmillan’s son Alexander who was an MEP and William and Harry going by ‘Wales’ who have all had titles they don’t use.

They’re a bit of an anachronism really. Even the last Duke of Devonshire said he thought that titles were meaningless and he was only in his position by pure chance and the aristocracy was dead.

Sorry, completely off topic. I wonder how we got from sugary cereals to here? Maybe Tony Benn was a Frosties fiend? Wouldn’t put it past him.

Gerard170 she was ace! Had no patience for airs and graces and all that stuff, she’d wave it away impatiently and start talking about actual important stuff.

Had a heart of gold and a sagely delivered saying for every occasion

I do find that interesting that the younger aristocrats aren’t as hot on the “proper” titles and stuff being used, and I’m glad too!

Now have a very odd image of Tony Benn face down in a bowl of Frosties

Love the way this conversation has gone because someone asked if I was 5 for saying eggy bread in a thread asking what I fed my 5 year old . I use to call it French Toast as a child, what does that say about me? But no cinnamon, ketchup!

I buy them as a Saturday morning treat otherwise it's rice crispies or cornflakes

Yes! I hate that stuff.
Husband and baby have weetabix with honey for him and nothing for baby.
Mr 4 has porridge (rolled oats) with fruit.
All have juice or water to drink.
I have toast or fruit bread and butter and a cuppa.
On weekends I buy a selection pack of the crappy cereals from Lidl, so mr 4 can choose what he wants. Baby, husband and I all have poached egg on toast.

French toast with marmite is the best

I have a feeling autumn is going to be the season of eggy bread experimentation in my house, have seen marmite, ketchup, cinnamon, honey and am trawling for more suggestions.

Try marmite last or you won’t finish the list I’m going to make it tomorrow now!

Yes, mine occasionally have cheerios on holiday.YANBU they are sweets dressed as breakfast.

We have, porridge, weetabix, shreddies or Benefit(Aldi special K) or they have eggs or wholemeal toast with peanut butter(sugar free) or butter and marmite.
No food is perfect but those cereals are shite!

I don't care what anybody else does, your kid, your problem, I don't understand why people say "I don't care if I get judged" who has time in their life to "judge" others. Personally my kids eat weetabix or porridge, but they are not fussy eaters at all. I wouldn't buy sugary cereals, if I am going to eat sugar I would sooner have it elsewhere. Like a big chocolate bar.

Pain perdu is not eggy bread, pain perdu is gross. It's like bread and butter pudding gone very, very wrong.

I do allow, but they're not much worse than rice crispier/cornflakes etc. They only eat it at weekends, during the week they get what I cook or fruit. Usually porridge/scrambled eggs' toast and tomatoes

May have outed myself as a lazy fucker at the weekend ☺️

Only on weekends here.

We have them but as treats once or twice a week. The rest of the week they have weetabix or shreddies or the like.

Wish I could get them to eat porridge or eggs but they won't entertain it

Gosh, this whole “eggy bread” thing has taken a turn. My original comment was about adults using juvenile terms for food, not class. You wouldn’t expect to see “eggy bread” on an adult restaurant/cafe menu, surely?

I eat my French toast with Worcester sauce, by the way. Sweet French toast is horrible.

It's not a juvenile term though. It's just what it's called in a lot of places.

I call savory eggy bread "eggy bread" which is seasoned with salt, pepper and herbs and fried.

I call sweet eggy bread "french toast" which comes from a diner, covered with strawberries and whipped cream.

Both awesome. Both completely different things. I make "eggy bread" (hangover food of the Gods), but I don't dick around with french toast. If I want french toast I go to a diner.