To ask if there’s a social class issue surrounding Findus Crispy Pancakes ?

[Jumell]

I’ve read some things in mine and sort of sense this might be the case but not 100% sure

Also is there a class issue around Fray Bentos pies ?

I love those !

Working class never had a Findus pancake or any frozen foods but that may be because I was 18 before we had a fridge with a tiny freezer compartment that held an ice cube tray. I think we may have had a Fray Bentos meat pie once not sure. Does this make me aspirational lower middle class?

Never heard of them!

Didn't know Crispy Pancakes still existed. Love me a Fray Bentos pie sometimes though.

It's OK to make your own pizza as long as you use proper 00 flour and cook it using a wood-fired pizza oven. Otherwise no.

You can't buy either of them in Waitrose. HTH's.

Should’ve said crisp, white wine !

Chowtime · Today 12:15

The only frozen food the middle classes are allowed to buy are 100% cod fish fingers.

Fixed that for you.

My Mum hated cooking so unfortunately we were brought up on this stuff. I do envy those with home cooked food. It is a worry. I know everyone now says ‘UPF crap - wouldn’t touch the stuff’ . But I don’t think the dangers were as well known in those days? Though you’d assume parents would realise home cooked was better…

We were as skinny as rakes so I think maybe my Mum thought as long as we weren’t overweight convenience food was ok.

Of course. Those crispy pancakes are very common. Good quality fish fingers (or fillets) are fine.

I think I'll get myself a bottle of Blue Nun.

Vesta chicken chow mein was my favourite as a teenager. My Mum also had Harveys duo cans with cooked spaghetti in one end and bolognese sauce in the other.

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Had vaguely heard of the brand Fray Bentos, but no idea. Googled. You can buy them in Waitrose, so that's OK then

I want to eat your brains....

There’s a class issue with everything with the plastic middle class.

The rest of us don’t care or think about any of those things.

Fir the record, I hate fray bentos, but I love the mozzarella crispy pancakes 🤣

But surely the most cosmopolitan people love a bit of offal.

Liver pate on toast anyone?

Adds haddock to the list of foods that are bog standard basic in Yorkshire and the sought out aspirational option everywhere else.

Haddock - our fish and chip shops almost entirely sell haddock, cooked in beef dripping
Longley Farm cottage cheese
Seabrooks crisps

It really is God's Own County.

It's likely to be snobbery. People who consider themselves middle class wouldn't like to be seen eating crispy pancakes or buy frozen food apart from fish fingers and frozen peas.

There was a thread a few days started by someone who'd been to Iceland (the supermarket not the country) for the first time and was surprised that they sold food that she recognised as, um food. Like vegetables and fish etc and it wasn't the 'pizza and chips for poor people' emporium that she'd previously imagined.

Never had a tinned pie but associate eating Findus as a high risk activity given the likelihood of third degree burns…

as an aside - my spellcheck tried to change Findus to fondue…am I middle class now 🤔🤔🤔

I’m very middle class and I just had to google what this is. 🫣

Having done that, I bet my kids would love them. 😂

Just saying

”FINDUS - success on a plate for YOU’!”

if you remember that advert tag line you’re young - like me ❤️

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 most definitely!!!!!

LOL my headscarf wearing UC DGM often had a Fray Bentos pie or Vesta chow mein in the larder. She would save the crispy noodle garnish for us. My DGF was very much WC so maybe they were his choice.

I’ve never eaten either of them but we ate a lot of 50p Doll packet noodles at boarding school.

On those grounds, I shall say they are U 😂

My mum was middle class and there were lots of things we were not allowed because they were "common". The rules were fairly arbitrary. Findus crispy pancakes not allowed but Fray Bentos were ok.

My mother is proper old school peerage class posh (listed in Burke's etc). We were brought up on Findus crispy pancakes, Heinz tinned bolognaise, Vesta curries etc. Because she went straight from living with her mother who had a cook and housekeeper to living with my father. They spent their early years of marriage overseas, where they also had a cook and housekeeper. So she never learned to cook until they came back to the UK and started a family.

Freezer/convenience food was very much the 'in' thing in the 1970s. It was freeing women from stove slavery.

You can. My local Waitrose store stocks Fray Bentos.

@Jumell, I think @quantumbutterfly was pointing more to the idea that red is generally better with pizza.