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!

@SoftSheen my sincere apologies younwere responding in the right vein to another post.

Honestly…. Working out the socioeconomic position of chocolates in the UK? That’s pretty middle class in itself no?

I think the price tag of most chocolates will indicate their class if you really have to know.

Ferrero Rocher are piled up at Christmas at the entrance of most supermarkets in bulk. And are filled with a chocolate paste that I wouldn’t buy under pain of death (for nutritional environmental and ethical reasons). If someone considers them aspirational I think that says more about the person than the product.

No problem Roses

@RosesAndHellebores sorry what are you saying about the women (not girls) and men who go into nursing these days. They aren’t nice or clever? That’s bloody insulting don’t you think. Plenty of very lovely, very intelligent people go into nursing these days.

My Dad used to buy my mum Toblerone when they were courting in the 1930's. They were working class people.

Small batch handmade artisan chocolates or sweets
www.shop.paulayoung.co.uk
www.wickedfudge.co.uk
www.chococo.co.uk

Good grief! Snobbery about chocolate??

I’m working class, as are many people who think they’re middle class, and don’t aspire to any particular brand.

@Kanaloa

I think mumsnet can now officially close down. I’m convinced that every single thing has now been pored over and carefully class identified so people can be aware that they are thoroughly inferior in their matching jammies with their Xmas decs up too early munching ferrero rocher with their kids Jackson and Kai. Probably lying on their crushed velvet couch in their grey living room drinking Prosecco. Unlike the Uber posh middle and upper classes (who we should of course aspire to be as much like as possible but should always remember we will simply NEVER be like them because their grace and class just oozes out naturally).

This! Well said 👍

The UC people I know (pages in Debrett's etc.) ate Bendicks Bittermints and Cadbury's milk chocolate. Before Cadbury's changed its recipe, anyway.

When I go to my parents in Brussels I stock up on Corne Port-Royal but I also love Lindt and walnut whip.

@Pensieve

Caramac

I think Bulters are considered pretty good

[quote RosesAndHellebores]@SoftSheen lots of upper middle class girls in the 50s/60s/70s went into nursing. Many of them were clever enough to have gone into medicine. Times have changed and nursing has suffered irreparably since the nice, clever girls went into medicine.[/quote]

The fuck have I just read

Anything bought from a supermarket is w/c. Anything purchased from an artisan chocolatier is m/c and anything one’s own cook makes is posh 🤣

Unless Cook fed the chocolate to a nurse, whereupon it would be instantly debased and contaminated.

Stupid fucking thread.

OMG…Ferrero Roche! Middle class?? Nope…

Maybe something from Montezuma, at a push…but not some oversweet tack-fest that should never have escaped the gravitational pull of the 80’s!

@RoyalFamilyFan

Prestat is a popular chocolate for flower companies to include in deliveries. They are nice enough and I have enjoyed them. But I have had better from LIDL.

Prestat have been bought out by an Italian company in the last couple of years. Their products have changed a bit, therefore. E.g. the size of the chocolates has decreased, but not the price.

However, they were previously owned by a pair of posh twits who pissed me off so much that I refused to buy their goods again. So, on balance, probably an improvement.

As this thread has descended into "It's good this, isn't it? Even though we're basically just listing chocolate" I feel I should recommend Friars, which my dh gets me every year and they are very nice. Don't think I've seen them mentioned yet.

@amiafreakofnature

Aside from all the bullshit middle class chocolate convo how was your mum upper middle class if she was a nurse? Do try harder

Why not upper middle class? She probably came from that background. Up until the 1970s there was a real difference in hospital training schools for nurses and upper middle class girls trained in hospitals like Guys, Barts and St Tomas's. Nowadays nurses are university educated.

We used to get Bendicks bitter mints as gifts when I worked at a posh london private hospital. They weren’t anything special but UC folk seemed to love them.

I like both Ferrero Rocher and Bendick’s much more than Chococo, Aubel etc.

@dottiedodah spot on!!

COVID destroyed nurses morale, this last two winters.

No chocolate offerings from grateful families could be accepted unless they were individually wrapped.

One thoughtful plastic surgeon gifted my ward 100 50gm bars of Belgian milk chocolate. There are only 25 staff on the ward, so we were happy.

The best gift (I'm Canadian) was a box of chocolate from Rogers on Vancouver Island. Individual wrapped chocolates. Our son was shopping there before Christmas and said that it was quite easy to drop $400 without trying (he was buying gifts for his coworkers and managed to get the corporate discount on his purchase)

Bendick's Bittermints

Divine chocolate is far too sweet for me, I'd love to buy more but can't stomach the taste.