To say some chocolates are distinctively middle class?

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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!

@Crayzeefrog

Ooh reading with interest!

My mum often sends us hotel chocolat gifts which DH claims to hate as they are too posh but seems to scoff anyway. I’m a fan of them but wouldn’t have said particularly posh!

Ferraro rochers are (in my humble opinion) decidedly not posh but very delicious.

Not posh at all

Style over substance
The aspirational working class brand. Something seen as pish but isn’t at all.

@mygenericusername

I consider myself LMC based on job and wealth but I have a lot of upper class friends who live in manor houses and stately homes (mainly owned by the national trust) . Most of them buy cheap and cheerful for themselves and ship in expensive chocolates to their friends to keep up appearances darling.

Buy the chocolate you enjoy. I’m currently stuffing my face with the coconut Ferraro Roche's. The only aspiration I have is to get the outer layer off without damaging the wafer.

That's also my experience. It's a plastic tub of Quality Street all the way.

I'm middle class and really hate Ferrero Rocher. Clever advertising but not appealing to my tastebuds at all. I'd suggest that they're very lower class!

I think there’s a difference here between posh and rich (may have been covered before). I was at school with lots of very posh kids and they plus their parents - best friend from there - would eat any chocolate under the sun.

Turning to rich, my local-ish Chelsea in London has two Rococo’s and several other one-off handmade chocolate places I can imagine the local bankers pop into…while best friend might still turn up with some chocolate covered brazils and a bottle of Rioja.

My fave are the Waitrose own truffles, dark ones, yum. Yep walking cliché

DH buys Highland Chocolatier chocolates once a year for Christmas. A tiny box is over £35. They are divine but I think you'd have to be very upper class to eat them all year round.

I bloody love Ferrero Rocher. They are so gloriously tacky that they’ve become a classless classic.

Rococo is lovely chocolate (and regular chocolate thread fans will know it’s the brand I usually recommend) but definitely middle class, not posh.

@mrdarcyfan

Maltesers are classless.

I love 'em. The fact that they are classless may be the reason.😋

Rococo is not what it was following a recent takeover. The founder now runs a small operation The Chocolate Detective, which is, I think, stocked at F&M.

My current favourite is Chocolicious in Borough Market. Probably posh, but that is not the point. They are scrummy.

Then the artisan shops. I have found good chocolate in Swanage, Bath, York, Sark and even Lerwick. I do like good chocolate.

Leonidas
Tony's

I'm not a lover of Ferrero Richer but impressed that you have a tower 😍

Happy New Year!

Ferrero Rocher are used at the Ambassador's receptions, so they must be posh!

My Cousin who is very posh and I (who am not!) both love Rose and Violet Creams .Had some very expensive chocs that she loved but I didnt ! Surely most of us love an After Eight though?

Home made are the poshest - kids all make them for fun and saves money which is an obessession!

LoveToPlan Agree totally! Love making home made truffles (Delias are v good) peppermint creams and Coconut Ice all good as well(And no cooking to a rolling boil either) with easy no cook recipes online.Reminds me of making Coconut Ice with my DGM!

Never mind social class, people with a social conscience eat Divine or Traidcraft fair trade chocolate. I actually visited ( pre pandemic)the cocoa farm in Ghana where the cocoa for this chocolate is grown and saw what benefits the fair trade premium gave the local community.

Montezumas; Prestat

@supperlover You took a wholly unnecessary flight you say so that you could then come on here and lecture us all on ethics. Oh the irony.

The Queen likes Charbonnel and Walker- their rose and violet creams and their truffles.

[quote mygenericusername]@supperlover You took a wholly unnecessary flight you say so that you could then come on here and lecture us all on ethics. Oh the irony.[/quote]

UMC Aunt and Uncle sent us Rococo chocolates for Christmas. WC Aunt and Uncle sent us Lindt chocolates for Christmas (both gratefully received).

The best chocolate I have ever tasted came from Alain Ducasse in Paris.

The middle class only eat “Posh chocs.” Using the word “Chocolate” is for plebs/lower classes.

Actually not lecturing anyone just saying that it is the chocolate one can eat knowing that no slave labour is used and helps the growers and producers. I actually went, some time ago, to Ghana on a ' Meet the people' trip with Traidcraft, the fair trade organisation. These trips actually supported the local economy. Yes, flights involved but my first ever long haul flight and don't normally holiday outside of UK. I make no apologies for taking the opportunity to promote fair trade. Not everyone knows about slave labour used in production of some cocoa.

Give me some orange cream quality street over expensive chocolate any day

I'm distinctly middle class, therefore any chocolates I eat or buy are distinctly middle class too. Today that would be some Lindor and Ferrero Rocher. But I've also got some organic fairtrade chocolate bars from DSis, and a box of posh Lindt chocolates from DH.

Hope this helps.

When we have friends round we get a chocolate harp made.

A really good chocolate is the rectangle secreted inside a Feast ice cream on a stick. If you can nibble all the outside away and end up with the choc bit intact on the stick - you are truly classless.