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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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SilverPeacock · 31/12/2021 07:01

@HyggeTygge

We were lower middle too, my mum used to get a Walnut Whip on her birthday.
So did mine. Can remember getting her one for mothers day once and presenting it to her in a shoe box I decorated. Height of sophistication. They must have been on the expensive side back then.
PhilCornwall1 · 31/12/2021 07:03

Curly Wurly.

Classy as fuck in my opinion!

CasperGutman · 31/12/2021 07:05

@Lockheart

Actually posh people eat whatever they fancy because they don't care what anyone else thinks.

I'll eat whatever's going tbh. But because I have no filter when it comes to chocolate, not because I'm posh.

This. It's like Nancy Mitford's list of U and non-U words back in the day.

Aspirational MC types use words they think sound sophisticated and eat "posh" chocolates like Hotel Chocolat or Lily O'Brien's (which I quite like, but when all's said and done they sell them in ASDA).

Posh people don't care what you think, so they say whatever the fuck they like and eat anything from After Eights to a Milkybar to those praline things from that little shop they found off the Place de Lausanne when they were off skiing last month.

TheHamburgler · 31/12/2021 07:15

Ferrero Rocher chocolates are the UK’s most popular Christmas chocolate.

www.theguardian.com/global-development/2019/dec/20/are-ferrero-rocher-chocolates-tainted-by-child-labour

It doesn’t get much more “common” than that.

idontshareprimula · 31/12/2021 07:16

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CounsellorTroi · 31/12/2021 07:16

Whatever happened to Suchard? Never seem to see it now.

I’m quite partial to a Greek brand called Ion, they do slabs full of whole hazelnuts, but don’t think it’s posh as it’s sold in supermarkets in Greece.

CaptainMyCaptain · 31/12/2021 07:17

My favourite chocolate is the 85% one from Lidl. I can't stand Ferrero Rocher. I'm not posh.

TheHamburgler · 31/12/2021 07:21

No idea but from now on quality street will always be known as the [racial slur] chocolates
Let’s hope not....

ashorterday · 31/12/2021 07:27

@Friendofdennis

Willies cacao ?
I got some in a hamper, it was shite. Can only assume being posh doesn't equate with tasting nice.
ShirleyPhallus · 31/12/2021 07:33

@ShippingNews

Questions like this remind me of how happy I am to live in a country where class isn't a thing.
Mumsnet is obsessed with it honestly
AwkwardSquad · 31/12/2021 07:39

We like to follow Annalisa Barbieri’s recommendations in her Notes on chocolate’ column in the Guardian. Do we win the MC aspirational chocolate prize? Grin

liveforsummer · 31/12/2021 07:39

I don't know what's posh but I know Thornton's has ideas way above it's station

Lindtnotlint · 31/12/2021 07:39

Can’t believe nobody has mentioned the Ambassador’s Reception. I don’t think you can discuss Ferrero Rocher and their links to class without mentioning that.

The big question on my mind is always - did they know what they were making? Was it deliberately ironic or was it “straight”?

LaBelleSausage · 31/12/2021 07:40

@thekissoflife

So what chocolate do genuinely posh people eat?
Friend of mine is titled and has always been partial to a freddo Grin
ReindeerPooppoo · 31/12/2021 07:43

I don’t get the obsession with class but have to tell you op, as soon as your dad got a medical degree he stopped being working class.
I’m guessing the comment about your tower related to the old advert, “with these chocolates you are spoiling us ambassador”. At the time they might have been aspirational chocolates but not so much now.
I like Lindt, most of the things I used to like are now full of palm oil and taste like sludge. I used to love a chocolate orange, sigh.

CounsellorTroi · 31/12/2021 07:43

After Eights ads always show them being eaten at posh dinner parties with all the men in black tie. If you look up some of the older ones on YouTube they are quite funny.

DrSbaitso · 31/12/2021 07:44

Oh for fuck's sake.

AgentJohnson · 31/12/2021 07:59

Questions like this remind me of how happy I am to live in a country where class isn't a thing.

I live in the Netherlands and hear the ‘we don’t have a class system’ bullshit all the time. It does but it’s called something else.

pussycatunpickingcrossesagain · 31/12/2021 08:02

If you can buy it in a supermarket, then it's not middle class.

That includes, in no particular order, Aldi, Waitrose, Tesco, Iceland, Lidl, Sainsbury, FarmFoods, B&M, Morrisons, Marks and Spencer, Co-op...

FormerlySpeckledyHen · 31/12/2021 08:03

Tony’s
Bendicks
F&M

Had them all for Christmas ☺️

PhilCornwall1 · 31/12/2021 08:04

I guess Lindt try to be posh when they prattle on about their "master chocolatiers" who are wearing their perfectly white uniforms.

We all know that they are made in a factory in Switzerland by a robot called Hans.

AgentJohnson · 31/12/2021 08:04

@DrSbaitso, has the most succinct riposte to your MIL embarrassing BS. File this under ways in which to broadcast your stupidity.

Mummyoflittledragon · 31/12/2021 08:04

@Breadstick25

Pierre Marcolini or any of the chocolatiers in Brussels. Miss living there but soooo bad for the waistline!
They are lovely but I’m not sure they’re worth that much more. Also used to live there. I liked the chocolate made with fresh raspberries from another chocolate shop. Can’t remember the name.
Mummyoflittledragon · 31/12/2021 08:06

Oh and according the adverts, milk tray Wink

NotQuiteUsual · 31/12/2021 08:06

My posh aunt likes chocolate oranges.

So there you go. Debate settled.