Social class: AIBU to ask if there was ever a day when there wasn’t a social class related topic on AIBU

[Flyingfish2019]

BTW what’s posher: Butter or vegan margarine?

No idea, but I buy both.

I've yet to see a thread that poses questions in this way on a daily basis.

Class as a perennial issue is part and parcel of MN, but then it's to be expected as class positioning/allegiance/denial is the very air of being British.

It's neither good nor bad, it just is.

Poshness is about heritage. Vegan margarine is far too new, obviously.

What is margarine dear?

Oh... but margarine was invented in 1869... isn’t that old fashioned enough?

But how do you say margarine- isn't that the indicator?

BTW found out margarine is believed to be a class marker lol www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13619462.2014.923763
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15528014.2018.1481674

I grew up on vitalite back in the eighties. Before my parents finished climbing up the social ladder from working class to lower middle class. There's a brand I prefer, but it's vitality we use. The only change to it is it's no longer in a round tub, and it has VEGAN written on it in big letters. It was always vegan. And it's so old.

Class is in absolutely everything. I open so many posts on here and immediately decide not to read through very far because the OPs views will vary severely on the topic, due to the very obvious class they are from. This is noticeable in a holiday thread I opened earlier.

Class changes everything. And affects everything and everyone around us.

It's everywhere (she says, with a scary voice)

I think all margarine is vegan, isn’t it. It is the point of margarine that it has no diary in it.... or do they have margarine that contain animal lard? That would be yucky.
I am not a vegan. I like dripping on my bread potatoes... but I hate animal fat where it doesn’t belong. I am not sure why I feel this way.

BTW is bread posher than potatoes because it is older.

Yes, I think that class shapes our view on things... but still I think it is odd that it is discussed so much on mumsnet because I know no other womans boards it is discussed at all...

Dont start on the bread . Bread preferences are class definers and probably could use up a whole thread.

Both are common as muck. Has to be proper organic butter from the farm nearest to your own home. That way you is proper posh innit.

As a dairy dodger - many margarines contain buttermilk

Hmm fairylea. Butter from the Home Farm, handcrafted by your own dairymaids I think. Great name by the way.

Butter is poster I think.

Unless it's "spreadable".

No, there’s definitely never been a class-free day. Then again, as a foreigner living in England, social class is a huge determinant of all kinds of things, so on an English-dominated, lower-middle-class dominated forum, it would be strange if it weren’t.

Sorry, dodgy syntax.

Most marge isnt vegan as it contains milk or buttermilk. DD was vegan for lent, and we found flora, vitalite and pure were the only vegan ones in most supermarkets.

Surely Vitalite isn't considered as posh as it used to be as it has palm oil?

It's like Brexit, there are those who can wrangle it into any discussion! The level of inverted snobbery is so funny.

You just can't make a decent sponge with butter, marg all the way fake Stork from Asda so I couldn't give a toss about the social class of stuff that goes on toast