Went in a cafe of the wrong class today. [sad face]

[TiggyD]

There were 2 cafes near each other. I picked the wrong one. I'm lower middle class and the cafe was for middle middle class to about lower upper class. I should have guessed by the little accent they put over the 'e' in the name.

I went in and up to the counter and asked for a sausage roll and a hot chocolate and they didn't give it to me. I was told to go sit at a table. My sausage roll came served on a plate with salad which, and you might not believe this, somebody had drizzled on! I'm guessing it was basil oil or some such frippery, although the cafe with an accent was next to a boating lake the same colour.

I should have gone to the other one where I'm sure I could have just taken the sausage roll in a bag or on a paper plate without being drizzled at.

It's hard being English.

I am on a debt management budget, yet even though Gweggs Sandwiches are quite nice and really good value, i just can't deal with the sort of insular self-hating fog i leave with if I buy one.

In fact even posting about it makes me feel a notch more depressed. I do think there is something about some places that says 'thou shalt not admit being here' even to yourself.

but similarly i long for three hands so i can hold both ends of the next Internet grooming vine enhanced wax moustache i see bending over my flat white AND punch him in the face.

dont get me started on faux mc and over polished twat shoes with fridge-kept jeans...

Love this but would like to correct poster above , Eternal Beau wasn't M&S or 90s as we had it as our wedding present in the 80s

I thought Woollies sold Eternal Beau in the 80s?

Eternal Beau sounds like a faux posh Gentleman's shoe adviser..

'Pull tight enough that your shoe is tight but doesn't pinch..and tie off with the Eternal Beau. .'

At least they didn't say " are you sure you've come to the right place"?! I sort of had this once, in a hairdressers!

I've never been in a greggs, Starbucks, KFC, subway or Nando's
I am totally ok with this.
😀

My sister still has her Eternal Beau.

Eternal beau!
God, that takes me back!

My Mum (lower middle with aspirations) got into Eternal Beau very early on. 'It was so pretty'

The day she saw it being used on Corrie was the day it saw the bin

DSis would call herself working class and I don't think she'd mind too much if she saw it on Corrie .

My crockery comes from Ikea. No idea what that means.

Eternal Beau had a lesser known cousin from out of town - Heritage, which was a sort of nudey Eternal Beau.

Owners of Heritage felt that they had the edge over the Eternal Beau crowd, who it turn lorded it over the fans of rarer but equally shite Albany design.

The budget octagonal crockery wars reached their peak in the late eighties, with open hostility, jostling and funny looks between opposing factions at Argos Collection Points and branches of Boots with Homeware and Gifts departments.

Mothers-in-law would pass sneering and derogatory comments to their daughters-in-law on their choice of non-circular ceramics -leading to a flood of anti-MIL letters on the AIBU pages of the 1990 Mumsnet Weekly News magazine, the forerunner of the popular internet bunfight arena of the new millennium.

I'd never heard of Eternal Beau (and would have thought it was a Barbara Cartland romance, if it wasn't for this thread) but had a google, because I have a lot of very wanky plates and coffee pots, mostly 60s and 70s, that people have bought me and I have found over the years (including a whole Arabesque coffee set). The design is so bland, I feel as though I haven't seen it, but am aware that it has been in every rented part furnished flat I have ever lived in.

Most of my house is from IKEA tbh
I think it's means I'm cheap

I think we have Ikea stuff because we are clumsy and break lots, and it's cheap to replace

75% of all houses have to contain products purchased in Ikea (even if it is 120,000 klipits), according to EU directive 638536. Of course all that will change post Brexit and we will be free to buy pleather sofas with fitted dip bowls in the arms in World of Sofas, and the rest of our furniture from an industrial estate on the outskirts of Badingstoke.

If it was the 80s now, I would have chosen Heritage over EB, Talc.

MaQ you Greggs virgin, you!
Get a pink jammie and think of me

Speckly - that may be due to gene inherited from your forebears. We don't have much control over the crockery that chooses us.

On the left are rare examples of the Eternal Beau stoneware athletic supporter - the choice of the England Cricket team on their ill-fated Wisden Tour of the West Indies in 85/86.

What era are you from fgs? I went in the wrong class cafe? Crikey the most ridiculous post ever made here. Are you really whining because you had salad with a sausage roll? Get a grip woman fgs. Stop acting as though its 1950's America and you aren't allowed in certain places. Ridiculous.

All this talk of Gregg's is bringing back happy memories. Me and dh's first flat was next door to the Gregg's factory. Smelt amazing when they were doing hot cross buns less so with sausage rolls

Tiggy is not a lady.

Please someone tell me what 'fridge-kept jeans' are!!!!!! I NEED to know...