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!

For goodness sake - they’re chocolates! Some chocolates are more chocalately than others, owing to their cacao content, but as to what class they fit into, well, that’s just beyond ridiculous. Who thought that gem up? 😂😂😂😂

I think it’s a lighthearted thread @Greenshed

I once dated a very UC boy whose mum was secretary to the current Prime Minister. I turned up at their Mayfair house with a box of Ferrero Rocher. I was a state school girl from up North and thought they were elegant chocolates. She gave me a box of House of Lords chocs for Christmas. They were disgusting. Lots of cheap fondants.

@Benjispruce5

I think it’s a lighthearted thread *@Greenshed*

Undoubtedly meant to be, but all of the 'class' threads have an undercurrent of sneering at the 'working class', which isn't very pleasant, no matter how light-hearted the intention may have been.

I’ve never thought about which chocolate is MC, or WC. For me it’s weather it’s sugary or not. Growing up my family regarded Thornton’s middle class.

I don't believe chocolate has a "Class". I have eaten fine and some dollar store candies that all have tasted yummy. All the women in my family has worked in chocolate. My great grandma worked at Cadbury's in England and started off 5 generations by feeding us all chocolate, which she called "Suck" -because we are only babies when we are introduced and we'd suck on it. See's Candies is our favorite and is a year long treat. My sis & I worked for See's for many years. I started at 16 and a pound of candy was $5.20 a pound; now it is $26lb! Still worth it. Is there still different classes anymore LOL.

Havana havanets my family buy them in Argentina

I live in Belgium and also have a house in the Netherlands so my ranking is not going to be the same as most people’s. Tony’s is everywhere in the supermarkets so definitely not UC. I love some of the Leonidas chocolates but they are mass produced here and there are shops everywhere. They are considered the lower end of the praline scale. Pierre Marcolini is pretty up there but the best are usually the individual shops where you can get some of the most amazing chocolate I have ever tasted. And I’m living in the right country as I love chocolate!

• Tony’s is everywhere in the supermarkets in the Netherlands.

Anything that doesn’t taste as good - isn’t full of Fat and sugar is obviously upper middle class .you know the sort of chocolate that you dont really enjoy you just pretend.

Mind you, Maltesers are my favourite!

@Twilightmoon2022

I don't believe chocolate has a "Class". I have eaten fine and some dollar store candies that all have tasted yummy. All the women in my family has worked in chocolate. My great grandma worked at Cadbury's in England and started off 5 generations by feeding us all chocolate, which she called "Suck" -because we are only babies when we are introduced and we'd suck on it. See's Candies is our favorite and is a year long treat. My sis & I worked for See's for many years. I started at 16 and a pound of candy was $5.20 a pound; now it is $26lb! Still worth it. Is there still different classes anymore LOL.

Our Dollarama (Canadian owned $store chain) has had some lovely German, Belgian, and Polish chocolate.

I started my nephew's love of chocolate by letting him lick a coffee cream!

See's, I've had a few boxes over the years, but I'm not a chocolate snob, I'll try anything once.

It appears that there is still a very strong class system in the UK if Mumsnet is anything to judge by. I'm just happy if everyone is working.

Waitrose? Really it's posh to have things that are from independent or small artisan companies, if the brand is known enough to write here it's not posh

Have to say that if your Dad was a doctor you are upper middle class! The shame! 🤦🏻‍♀️

Think FR are now ironically back to being middle class again. They think they are in on the joke. 😃

Middle class chocs definitely anything eco or responsibly sourced. ( Chocolate with a conscience) Green and Blacks/Tony’s and Hotel Choc. Anything boutique.

I think the sneering is at the middle class not the working class!

Hotel Chocolate chocs I would consider as middle or upper class chocolates

A few years ago I'd have said anything from Fortnum & Mason, but then my son went to work for the chocolate company that produces a lot of their chocolate, only to discover that they make for Waitrose, M&S, Morrisons, Tesco, Asda and Aldi too.
The stores say they have different recipes with different grades/suppliers of the actual chocolate/beans but the factory would regularly interchange different ingredients between products if they had a glut or shortage of something.
So now, I'm very reluctant to say that anything is actually "posh" unless you can genuinely trace its provenance.

You're all absolutely wrong there's only one type of chocolate whether you are working middle upper or any class! (See pic)

@Twinkleylight have you tried the ginger thins? We bought them this year instead of after eights and they are lovely, the ginger stops them being too sweet

The thought of designating chocolates to a class is absurd.
True UC couldn't give a rats ass, if they like it, they like it. End of.
The nicest chocolates I ever had my dad brought me back - he used to work away in Scandinavia.. It's probably about 30 odd years ago & I wish so hard I could find them.
They were in a cream/beige coloured cardboard box with an old lady on the front & individually wrapped chocolates inside. With like a praline ish style centre.... My god they were so good!!
If anyone knows of them pleeeeaase pipe up!!
My dad's been gone many years, not that he'd have remembered anyway... "just chocolates for the young un"

Ferrero Rocher are very WC imo.
MC would be Venchi, Godiva or Montezuma.
A MC chocolate will usually have its own exclusive outlet as well a range in high end stores.

Light-heartedly, I'd say that these days Ferrero Rocher is the opposite of "posh", very "common" in fact. What was considered "aspirational" 30-40 years ago is now very much WC.
On the other hand Artisan du Chocolat screams "POSH", as does Z-Chocolate.

@EchosMum2007

On the other hand Artisan du Chocolat screams "POSH", as does Z-Chocolate.

I can assure you that these 'sound' posh but they're made of exactly the same ingredients as the aldi chocolates I mentioned a few messages up-thtead.
How do I know this? Because it's Artisan du Chocolat, based in Ashford, Kent, that my son worked for!

I love a good MN class thread. The truly UC just eat what they fancy, maybe a box of chocs from a harrods hamper at this time of year or something imported.

I actually bought a box of Elizabeth Shaw chocolates this Christmas because I had fond memories of my mum and her friends enjoying them years ago - no doubt thinking they were "posh" but they only cost a couple of quid so definitely not.