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To say some chocolates are distinctively middle class?

586 replies

lionobserving · 30/12/2021 23:55

MIL asked us if we thought our ferrero rocher tower was "aspirational" and said she knows ferrero rochers to be the aspirational chocolates of the working class.

This baffled me. My family has always sort of transcended class - my mum was upper middle, my day was very working class. But he was a doctor and she a nurse. We were probably lower middle growing up if I had to put a tag on it, but our mixed extended family meant that we weren't aware of what was "posh" or MC / WC. We certainly wouldn't have known which chocs has the markings of which class.

Therefore MNers - lightheartedly - tell me which chocolates you view as typically middle class? We discussed it as a family and we couldn't come up with a single one!

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Elphame · 01/01/2022 14:14

I didn't realise they still made Black Magic.

It seems they do as I got a box for Christmas. :(

CounsellorTroi · 01/01/2022 14:39

@suckingonchillidogs

Back in the day we thought Black Magic and Terrys All Gold were the height of sophistication
Oh yes that ad “See the face you love light up with Terry’s All Gold” with the gold of the box reflecting on the delighted woman’s face.
speakout · 01/01/2022 14:59

*Elphame
I didn't realise they still made Black Magic.

It seems they do as I got a box for Christmas.*

Perhaps they were alluding to some aspect of you?? Wink

Turnitupto11 · 01/01/2022 16:38

My grandma used to love Spartan chocolate box. They don't make that anymore, but I have seen Black Magic in the supermarkets.

tttigress · 01/01/2022 16:58

I vote:

Ritter Sport
Kinder (especially the stuff you can't get in the UK)
Nutella

Turnitupto11 · 01/01/2022 17:12

Kinder chocolate is lovely, not sure if it's palm oil free.

Agree you can get many more flavours of Ritter in Germany. I love the honey almond flavour.

Belindaa · 01/01/2022 17:29

[quote JurgensCakeBabyJesus]@thekissoflife

So what chocolate do genuinely posh people eat?

We don't my dear, too busy patching up the roof of the Great hall again, patting the rump of various fine fillies and stomping about in battered jodhpurs and riding boots handed down five generations, that cost more than the average 3 bed semi, Huzzah![/quote]
I know what you've been watching!!!

anon666 · 01/01/2022 17:30

I love to hate the good old British taste and class wars.

I like to think I don't partake in chocolates just because of their class value, but I probably do.

I actually like Ferrero Rocher, and I think they have acquired a joke association since that OTT advert "Ambassador, you are spoiling us".

But I do prefer better quality chocolates like Charbonnel and Walker or even the better supermarket's own brands (Waitrose, M&S, Co-op). Agree that Lidl/Aldi can also be better.

If you want to knock it out of the park, obscure London boutiques are probably best, like Rococo.

notoldjustpastyoung · 01/01/2022 17:31

I agree with everything you say. Any I hope our taste buds are genuine and not fakes. However when asked the question only one come to mind. After Eights. ! Karen

DeepaBeesKit · 01/01/2022 17:32

So what chocolate do genuinely posh people eat?

My in-laws are really posh and tight as, every thing comes from Aldi Grin.they love a bargain.

Flowersandhearts · 01/01/2022 17:32

Hotel chocolat and Prestat chocolates are (expensive and therefore) upper middle class.

UniversalAunt · 01/01/2022 17:34

Oh, Ritter’s marzipan, I used to love that one.
Ritter not often seen in these parts.

Terry’s All Gold - grandma’s favourite. Along with the Bournville dark stuff. I’d search out the AllmGold chocolate brazils.

My Grandmother has a lot to answer for…

Sorryusernamealreadyexists · 01/01/2022 17:34

I don’t really see any chocolate as MC? Maybe handcrafted artisan stuff but certainly not anything branded

Rtruth · 01/01/2022 17:36

If you get a box of hero’s it’s defo middle class as they are the best tub to get and always sold out.

Any other tub, it shows what class you are 😉

Hotel chocolate is defo middle class.

KarenTheGammonRemoaner · 01/01/2022 17:39

Homemade breastmilk chocolates.

csigeek · 01/01/2022 17:42

Anything you can buy in a supermarket is not “posh” imo

LaDamaDeElche · 01/01/2022 17:42

@thekissoflife

So what chocolate do genuinely posh people eat?
Champagne Truffles
Dontwanttolivewithmylover · 01/01/2022 17:43

I think they're horrible and wouldn't thank anyone for gifting them to me.

Dontwanttolivewithmylover · 01/01/2022 17:44

Tesco, among others, do Marc de Champagne truffles under their own brand so they're def not 'posh'.

AlwaysLatte · 01/01/2022 17:46

An investment company we use sent us this this Christmas. They normally send things like cream tea and strawberries during Wimbledon, etc so I think it's probably something they think of as 'middle class'.

To say some chocolates are distinctively middle class?
DagenhamRoundhouse · 01/01/2022 17:49

A brand called Amelie. They're fab. A (rich) friend gives me them for Xmas, I couldn't buy them myself.
www.ameliechocolat.co.uk/pages/contact-us.html

Roxy9176 · 01/01/2022 17:49

Ferrero Rocher
After eights
Matchmakers
Dairy milk
🤣

Iwantapony · 01/01/2022 17:53

Paul A Young - absolutely delicious for special occasions

Alpenguin · 01/01/2022 17:54

I hate chocolate. Clearly I’m classless

newmummy16 · 01/01/2022 17:54

Leonidas chocolates.
Back in the day Selfridges use to sell them, I was introduced to them by the middle class at work