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.

Interesting :) thank you for the recommendation.

My spouse is sitting next to me and nodding. So, yay for the hot tub. But I currently can't go in a hot tub anyway. So, that project will have to wait...

I need to point out the pot pourri is very 1990's and no amount of organic boxes from anywhere will disguise this.

Quite distressed at the thought of a warmed shortbread.

boffin I genuinely think their baguettes are good, the bread is crispy and there's no shit in my ham and cheese. Just butter, ham and cheese.
Sausage rolls are great, but I do believe the recipe changes depending on where you are, so they suit 'local' tastes.
Yum yums are so good that Marksies et al do small fancy versions at twice the price.
I do love the occasional naughty steakbake, my OH professes love for the mince pie, not the festive kind.
The ham and cheese melt is the most disappointing thing for me though. They are NOT like the ham and cheese jambons that you get from an Irish deli counter. In fact, I don't know of a good deli counter like they do at home.

Barbara loving the fish cake picture, haven't had one like that since I was a student - we used to have them in a breadcake, a fish cake butty, preferably with peas - heaven.

BoffinMum

EVERYTHING!

Everything good at Greggs.

Especially the cheese pasties.

And the sausage rolls,

And the pies.

The cakes and yum-yums aren't to be sniffed at either.

I've never had a deep-fried Mars bar [sadface], in all my many years here.

Although DH who is upper working class does a mean Baked Alaska, so all is not lost.

Folded hessian bags?!
FFS.
Almost as ludicrous as pre-ripped, 'distressed' jeans

I've gone off Gregg's cheese pasties though , thankfully their yum-yums make up for it.

Boffin, the sausage rolls from Greggs are the best ever. DC and DH agree. Especially when they're still warm.

I know I might get my MN account revoked for this, mind.

Five Guys has a white board with not only the region of today's pototoes, but the farm of today's potatoes, the farmer's name AND also the names of the potato pickers.

And beer. In bottles.

Ah!

I will adjust Five Guys poncetastic rating up a couple of notches

Perhaps we should have a Greggs meet up. I will ferment some fruit shoots to take with us (I am assuming Greggs doesn't have a licence).

An actual proper funny mumsnet thread!

This reminds me of (showing my age) "I know my place" 🙂

AND.... I have never even heard of Five Guys!

What is wrong with me??

[too upset for emoticon]

Sorry but I find this thread hilarious!

I'm very much working class (I think?) and go to cafe-bars which have board games, sugar cube tongs, salad drizzle, etc. It's not a class thing, is it? It's just a nice cafe! Here's an example of where I would go in my old city. What "class" would you say this cafe is?

A British Rail sausage roll used to be my go to hangover cure.

I don't eat meat anymore.

looks like a classy kind of caff

Do Greggs do iced fingers?

I'm puzzling over Ireland being the home of the ham and cheese jambon.

FruitCider
Trendy chattering class MC intellectual. Nothing matches and they've used reclaimed church seating

Fruitcider they are all so happy! They have got to be upper middle - there are no kids so they must all have au pairs (hence the happiness).

I'm so excited that Greggs do 'dipping sauce'. I've always wanted to ask for some HP to go with my sausage roll but have been to scared to ask for fear of being seen as common .

Don't worry about not knowing about Five Guys Pacific. I only know because my 11 year old DS told me. My 27 year old DSD took him. When I finally gave in and took him I caused a bit of a scene at the counter because I got confused by the menu. DS was mortified and went and stood outside.

Bit bemused about the whole spectrum of middle classes.

But I'd not like my food, artisan or otherwise served in a hat. Imagine if that catches on, and having a comforting stoo n dumplings - it would have to be served in a top hat? Or at the very least a bowler hat?

Hats are for heads, not food.

And little galvanised buckets or mini fryers for chips.

And I'd mug someone for a battered Mars bar. They don't do them darn sarf anymore. WHY give us a taste of deliciousness, then swiftly take it away?

Then again, I used to work as a waitress at a hotel. When they were showing me the ropes, I was told to "refresh" the gravy every Sunday before the carvery. Entailed adding more brown powder and hot water to, well, probably years of brown powdered water. I suppose if they'd been serving artisan food, it would have been referred to as "Vintage Gravy".

This thread is like a blast from MN past.

It's actually a polytechnics local bar, branched out into food. No middle class folk there I can tell you

*.... and the vintage brown sludge was kept in an actual bucket. Uncovered. Like one used in the garden.

Fruit- it looked like a hipster cafe... until the shot with people in it.