To think Toby Carvery is working class ?

[JoanneTeresa]

I went this week and was looking around at the likely demographic

No, it's bloody not. I'm working class and I wouldn't eat there if you paid me. Do you think that working class people have no standards?

We sometimes go after visiting a certain place for Sunday lunch.
I think it’s quite good. Definitely not the best meal I’ve ever had but sufficient.
The one we use is in a nice area, and there are hardly any children there which suits us just fine.

I don’t know, would you care about people describing the N*** at their local chicken shop?

I am not at all working class. I love a carvery. Toby or otherwise.

Yes! But I’d add another couple of lines.

“Its a bit like saying I shop at Harrods food court
and just noticed all the customers are middle class”
AND I am middle class.
Im in an establishment where almost the entire demographic are very similar to me. Blimey what an observant person I am all of a sudden.

Not a ‘massive’ Mumsnet salad ??

I've no idea what you are trying to say but if you are suggesting the n word for black people well that's a racist slur. Chav isn't anything to do with race. Get off your high horse

we dont have one nearby but always assumed they were lower working class

You were looking in the mirror then?

What's the point of this thread?

Sadly it would seem you are working class

You know full well ‘Chav’ is a loaded term in some contexts - see also ‘gammon’ for someone like my dad who is a beautiful person, conservative with a small C in his world view which results in him being offensive to some people for just existing

Chav- Doesn't bother me at all as despite my two degrees and ‘career’ and money, I use it about myself and my kids at times in affectionate way relating to my W/C background upbringing, accent, and some of my kids dress sense and crazy antics during their teen/ school years

You mean it in the nastiest sense of the word , it’s classist and derogatory and well you know it me duck !

Chav is a discriminatory slur, it’s weird that you can’t see the connection

I love it, especially the breakfast. The toby carvery near us has closed down and been replaced by miller and carter, not impressed!

George Michael loved a carvery.

I’ve never been and never intend to, does that mean by default I’m middle class?

Never heard of it! Brought up very much WC… is it an English thing??

Are you middle class quiz:

1. do you go to Toby Carvery?
2. do you go to the Harvester?
3. do you go camping?

Are the working classes poor then?

Working class hasnt really been about income, its more about labour/division/ownership/management or otherwise

Manual jobs are generally seen as WC for example but they earn quite a lot of money , plumbers, train drivers, etc etc

They’re all crap these days. Carvery used to be great, these days it’s all bland, unseasoned, minimal effort crap. It also used to be cheap, not so anymore.

Of course it's a slur. But an apt description of the people that act like it. It's something people can control and choose how to behave so totally different from skin colour which someone was trying to bring into it

I'm working class but not a Chav .

I read the title and thought “who is Toby Carvery?” I’ve nothing useful to add.

What on earth is " gammon" ? You've lost me there.

Working class hero and my life long crush
I hope they have a carvery up in popstar heaven
I hope you are enjoying double bubble Yorkies, the crispy bits swimming in honey at the bottom of the parsnip vat, caulk cheese mush as hot as lava and extra slightly greasy gravey with a bit of skin forming - always and forever my sweet sweet man…with a side of pigs in blankets when it’s not even fucking Christmas time!

absolutley starving now ! Could hands down do a big daddy/the guv’nor oval plate to be fair!!

Working class hero and my life long crush
I hope they have a carvery up in popstar heaven
I hope you are enjoying double bubble Yorkies, the crispy bits swimming in honey at the bottom of the parsnip vat, caulk cheese mush as hot as lava and extra slightly greasy gravey with a bit of skin forming - always and forever my sweet sweet man…with a side of pigs in blankets when it’s not even fucking Christmas time!

absolutley starving now ! Could hands down do a big daddy/the guv’nor oval plate to be fair!!