Are you rich, posh and clever?

[pointydog]

I think I heard it right. The Christmas Iceland ad where Karry Katona says something along the lines of 'I used to think you had to be rich, posh or clever to have a buffet'.

Ffs. The British attitude towards food verges on the pathetic at times. Rich, posh or clever to put some bits of food on plates. Aye right.

I like Kerry. I don't know her but we were brought up on the same estate and went to the same school and my Dad drinks with her Uncle. Everyone who knows her says she's lovely. I used to talk just like her until I went to Uni and moved away.

I still don't shop in Iceland though

it was probably your leaning towards the more Middle Class programmes like Bagpuss that saved you as well

LOL. That and the fact that we were too poor to own a freezer so Mum didn't go to iceland.

I like Kerry. The Iceland ads make me feel a tad ill though.

No, but I'd like to be!

Well maybe not posh, just rich and clever would do for me.

agree with shinyhappy. Nothing wrong with buffet - it can be homecooked and utterly fab. And takes a lot of effort to make delicious nibbles.

I don't believe I have ever been to house party that catered for more than 10 persons which was not buffet - and some of these hosts were posh rich and clever (not me) lol

Who is Kerry Katona then?

I went to do a spot of market research in Iceland t'other day.

Things very cleverly priced,none of this £2.99 business-but the food!!!
Dear God.

I had a hot shower when I got home.

The British are spectaularly bad at buffets.
We have an ongoing competition in our family regarding who has been to the worst.

I think I win with a particulaly memorable Christening in the Potteries in a working men's club.

A lot of men with tattoos,a lot of children in synthetic fibres and a table piled high with grey chicken drumsticks,breadrolls the colour and consistency of loo roll and lots of trays of nasty little dips from which the plastic film hadn't been properly removed.

Good laff though...

Was there plentiful alcohol, moony?

Cuz the stodge is just there to soak up the booze.

I don't know who she is either, Moondog

Yes,always helps eh???

Am I rich posh or clever? uh h to numbers one and two, I like to think I'm OK on the brains front though

I only however do buffets for childrens birthday parties or when asked to bring a contribution to something similar, on which occasions I do NOT shop at Iceland, I make my own.

I never shop at iceland, i shop in places that sella range of fresh food too.

Buffets meanz parties. They is great.

I think the Boxing Day 'turkey buffet' as featured in Bridget Jones' Diary has coloured my view for ever.

My MIL does hideous buffets. All bought-in plastic food from Iceland no doubt. Horrible little smoked salmon whirls with nasty mousse inside, bowls of crisps, stodgy finger rolls with butter half an inch thick and topped with tinned salmon, HUUUUUUUUUUGE pork pies, slabs of cheese, plastic dips with greasy nachos etc etc. The only vaguely healthy items on there are a token jar of pickled onions (which no one ever eats) and a couple of tomatoes sliced really thinly and fanned out on the plate (no one touches these either....except me). Horrible horrible - I dread them. And they are always EXACTLY the same. I can honestly say I would prefer beans on toast.

Ah Queeni,all done with much love I'm sure though.
Bless her.

I used to have to go to work things where a very posh lady did the buffet - the vegetarian option was bits of celery with primula cheese spread in it. At the end she chucked the leftovers (a lot) into a bag to take home to the peacocks. I like a buffet, me.

Indeed moondog which is why I always dig in and tell her how lovely it all is . I sound like a real ungrateful snob in my post - I'm really not, honestly! It's just that I really hate that kind of food and it makes me annoyed how much profit Mr Tesco et al make out of selling such cack to people. It really is very easy to make your own 'buffet' food - and it doesn't have to involve vol-au-vents or cheese and pineapple on sticks . How long will it be before more people wake up and realise that spending 4.99 or whatever on a dozen frozen tasteless 'spring rolls' (or similar) means that they have been taken for a ride.....? Since when did eating a load of fake cheap food become a 'treat'? We have fallen for marketing nonsense. All these buffet 'bits' taste the same IMHO - tasteless morsels of stodge in a variety of colours and shapes and wrapped in piles of plastic etc. Yuk. The whole thing is so depressing

Ah Queen,you are speaking my language girl.

am rich posh and clever... but not keen on buffets. now a nice picnic, that's a different story

Can I just say that ShinyHappy's dh is a mega-double-fab cook. I'd go to any buffet for which he'd done the catering!

I love that Peter Kay sketch when he goes along the buffet table saying 'sandwiches, quiche, sausage rolls, sandiwches, quiche, sausage rolls.....sandwiches, quiche, sausage rolls' (or whatever it is)! We've all been there!

lol
Haven't seen that,but sounds great.
I love Peter Kay.

i LOVE a buffet the crapper the better
love cold vol au vents

loev crap sarnires

aaaaargh! looked up at tv and there she was, saying... wait for it.... "sophistication is my middle name" ffs.