The cycle chat guide to being middle class
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Kestevan
Last of the Summer Winos
- Location
- Holmfirth.
No. But at your age you should be asleep.Oy! I'm not deaf you know!
ColinJ
Puzzle game procrastinator!
- Location
- Todmorden - Yorks/Lancs border
Living in Coventry for 21 years, followed by 3 years in Manchester, and 30 years in Yorkshire, but not sounding like people from any of those places ...
NorthernDave
Never used Über Member
- Location
- The real Northern Powerhouse
[QUOTE 4480060, member: 259"]Sourcing sustainable line-caught pollack for your supper rather than buying a packet of fish fingers for your tea.[/QUOTE]
Surely calling tea "supper" is enough?
Or when Sunday breakfast is called brunch and consists of oak smoked rashers of organic free range rare breed bacon, served in a ciabatta with home made ketchup...
Surely calling tea "supper" is enough?
Or when Sunday breakfast is called brunch and consists of oak smoked rashers of organic free range rare breed bacon, served in a ciabatta with home made ketchup...
Hill Wimp
Fair weathered,fair minded but easily persuaded.
- Location
- The TerrorVortex
I make my own bacon. From rare breed pork.
And I know how to make brioche.
And I know how to make brioche.
@NorthernDave forgot the poached duck eggs.Calling @The Velvet Curtain
Yeah, but we both know that we pay good money for that sort of premium service...
John the Monkey
Frivolous Cyclist
- Location
- Crewe
NorthernDave
Never used Über Member
- Location
- The real Northern Powerhouse
How about shopping at Waitrose? Or Booths if you're a northern ponce, if such a thing can exist.
Actually I buy beer and coffee beans at Booths some maybe scrap that one.
Or shopping at Lidl but packing your groceries in a Waitrose bag for life...or is that "aspirational"?
Yes, shopping at Lidl ironically.Or shopping at Lidl but packing your groceries in a Waitrose bag for life...or is that "aspirational"?
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
Or shopping at Lidl but packing your groceries in a Waitrose bag for life...or is that "aspirational"?
That's not middle class, that's just "using a bag that you've already bought in another shop". You're not limited to using a bag for life solely in the chain it was purchased.
To give you the flipside to "bag for life snobbishness", I was once shopping in Waitrose using a Sainsbury's bag for life, and I heard an older lady near me commenting on it to her friend quite adversely, something along the lines of "What's he doing bringing that in here, does he know where he is?". It's possibly the most middle class thing I've heard in a while, definitely a "overheard in Waitrose" moment. I hope she choked on her roast swan mousse.
CanucksTraveller
Macho Business Donkey Wrestler
- Location
- Hertfordshire
Oh I have to tell you another "overheard in Waitrose" story then.
On one occasion the man in front of me paid for his few bits, and asked for a few extra "green tokens", those things that you put in a box at the exit to vote for who Waitrose will give the majority of a couple of hundred quid or so to in the following month.
Not two minutes later he's back, and asked if he could have a handful. The till girl obliged, and he couldn't contain himself. "Oh I LOVE giving to charity, it makes me feel splendid!" he squawked.
Of course he was giving sweet FA to the charities, but it allowed his middle class conscience to at least feel like he was.
