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To say some chocolates are distinctively middle class?

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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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SleepingStandingUp · 02/01/2022 19:26

I have in my house...
Quality Street
Lindt
After Eights
Dairy Box
Milk Tray
Ferrero Rocher

What am I!?

Parker231 · 02/01/2022 19:29

@SleepingStandingUp

I have in my house... Quality Street Lindt After Eights Dairy Box Milk Tray Ferrero Rocher

What am I!?

Making me want some chocolate! We’re on holiday in the US and the chocolate here is rubbish!
LadyHofH · 02/01/2022 19:29

@Benjispruce5

A tub of Quality St or Roses at Christmas is working class. Tub sod anything really. It’s the huge quantity that’s vulgar darlings. Grin
Sorry, but you are so totally wrong here. Tubs of either QS or Roses are fine (QS better than Roses, but Roses will do if there are no QS available). In fact, you need several tubs, as there need to be enough for all 25 house guests to help themselves when they're wandering around in the library/hall/whatever. Trust me, I know my stuff in this regard. There is always a fair bit of overlap between 'landed gentry' and 'working class' in this kind of area.
Justonedayatatime11 · 02/01/2022 19:45

Audreys in Hove who supply F&M. My biggest extravagance is a box of their milk and dark coffee creams once a month. I can't recommend them enough, they're amazing

DrSbaitso · 02/01/2022 19:57

@SleepingStandingUp

I have in my house... Quality Street Lindt After Eights Dairy Box Milk Tray Ferrero Rocher

What am I!?

Diabetic???

(Sorry. Just too obvious a feed line. Feed line, someone stop me...)

Limmers14 · 02/01/2022 20:19

The Alain Ducasse chocolate shop in Kings Cross is definitely posh! £13 for a bar!

Elderflower14 · 02/01/2022 20:22

My Mum loves Laura Secord chocolate but it's very hard to get hold of.. Last time I ordered about eight years ago it came from a florists in Scotland!!

SleepingStandingUp · 02/01/2022 22:29

Aww sorry @Parker231

😂 @DrSbaitso in my defence, I didn't buy any but the after Eights myself.

naffusername · 03/01/2022 00:07

@catsoop

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" Grin
Chocolate covered ginger is the food of the devil. I'm still upset by eating one in 1966
queenofarles · 03/01/2022 10:19

Chocolate Candid orange peel chocolate covered ginger stems are considered gastronomic delights , can’t stand them and can’t believe anyone would pay to eat them.

zingally · 03/01/2022 10:23

Hotel Chocolat? Green and Blacks?

footcushion · 03/01/2022 10:42

@queenofarles

Chocolate Candid orange peel chocolate covered ginger stems are considered gastronomic delights , can’t stand them and can’t believe anyone would pay to eat them.
So funny - we all love Orangettes so much, we made our own - candied and coated orange peel one Christmas, took ages but they were worth it - they are our favourite chocolates - and I have a box of chocolate gingers in the cupboard too, along with Turkish delight. My kids eat Cadbury's Oreo bites too - so I haven't completely ruined their taste buds! Grin
StrifeOfBath · 03/01/2022 11:27

The thought of designating chocolates to a class is absurd

And yet every manufacturer will have done extensive market research into how to target their brand including close attention to socio economic groups.

naffusername · 03/01/2022 21:25

@Elderflower14

My Mum loves Laura Secord chocolate but it's very hard to get hold of.. Last time I ordered about eight years ago it came from a florists in Scotland!!
Laura Secord isn't what it used to be. Kind of disappeared and then popped back in the Canadian market.

I see mixed boxes and 100gm bars of their chocolate in Winners, our version of TJ Maxx. The taste isn't what it used to be.

Haven't seen a free standing shop in years.

mathanxiety · 03/01/2022 21:42

And yet every manufacturer will have done extensive market research into how to target their brand including close attention to socio economic groups.

Socio economic groups have nothing to do with the vagaries of the British class system.

mathanxiety · 03/01/2022 21:46

@Parker231, there all sorts of poncey artisanal chocolatiers in cities across the US.

Parker231 · 03/01/2022 21:53

@mathanxiety
We’re in a ski resort in Colorado so not much choice - found some I thought looked like Maltesers but were disgusting!

mathanxiety · 03/01/2022 22:00

You must have fallen victim to the snare and delusion that is Malted Milk Balls, @Parker231. I feel your pain and disgust.

www.rockymountainfoodtours.com/colorados-top-10-local-chocolate-shops/

I would have thought Colorado ski territory would be poncey chocolate central.

OneLlamaOpenSleigh · 03/01/2022 23:53

@catsoop

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" Grin
Could the chocolates be Geisha? Can’t find a photo of the old packaging but they definitely used to have a picture of a woman on the front and are individually wrapped praline type.

en.fazer.com/collections/geisha

pinkmink · 04/01/2022 00:08

Has anyone tried the giant Ferraro Rocher? It’s delicious. All chocolate, no filling - just tons of that nice outside chocolate layer with crunchy bits. Obviously common as muck though

GertrudePerkinsPaperyThing · 04/01/2022 00:18

Holdsworths were my first thought

LadyEloise1 · 04/01/2022 08:55

I hate Ferrero Rocher. And Nutella.
Why anyone puts bits of broken up nuts into chocolate is beyond me. Pralines - what a waste of nice chocolate. Giandujas too - yuck.
Bizarrely I do like chocolate peanuts and chocokate brazils.

longwayoff · 04/01/2022 09:16

Completely agree, Ferrerro Rocher are nasty. If you are a hazelnut fan, Aldi sells the nuttiest hazelnut chocolate I've ever seen. Looks a lot better than FR although I've not seen it at the ambassador's party and it's not wrapped in gold.

AutumnAlmanack · 04/01/2022 09:53

@naffusername - my aunt is Canadian and introduced my family to Laura Secord years ago (70s?). They used to be fabulous chocolates - do you remember the Summer Assortment and the green French and Frosted Mints? Loved them but like so many, they changed and now seem to have disappeared. What a shame!

naffusername · 07/01/2022 01:08

[quote AutumnAlmanack]@naffusername - my aunt is Canadian and introduced my family to Laura Secord years ago (70s?). They used to be fabulous chocolates - do you remember the Summer Assortment and the green French and Frosted Mints? Loved them but like so many, they changed and now seem to have disappeared. What a shame![/quote]
Both types of mints still exist. I have a box in my dining room as I type.

I won't finish them and keep meaning to put them in the food waste bin but I keep thinking I'll try them tomorrow and see if they taste better.

The quality of the chocolate has changed. They taste waxier, if that makes sense. The green French mints just aren't the same.

Another good product ruined.

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