[Closed] I think I've hit Peak Middle Class

free-range pancetta

Is that some kind of zombie pig meat?

I joined the National Trust.

I have worn out my wine decanter brush.

I get my pancetta from the butcher. Along with Iberico pork cheeks.

I think my peak middle class moment was buying a yoga mat from John Lewis.

In my defense it was on sale at half price.

I've nearly finished my Roquefort infused salami...

I've just bought a portable pizza oven, and also recently learned to make my own soda bread*

* although that also puts me into a class of my own devising - nouveau poor - since soda bread is traditionally what poor people would make when they went to the larder and it was bare; at least you could make bread from start to eating in under a hour.

(I think I then spoil the image by toasting it in a Dualit and putting smoked salmon and a free range organic poached egg on top)

I've just put some opera on my Michell Engineering Gyrodec

They no longer ask for my ID at the Click & Collect desk.

They no longer ask for my ID at the Click & Collect desk.

... at Argos.

i have bought a projector to watch movies through

I didn't anything last month, apart from food and whatnot.

It's when:

You have a choice of pasta makers in your kitchen.

You're a member of the wine society.

Or you wear red cords.

I was in Tesco last week and heard myself call out to the wife 'darling, I think we are out of walnut oil'. I cringed.

I sent Mrs Kryton back to the shops today to replace the "value" Tonic she bought with some on-offer Bombay Sapphire with something half decent.

First world problems.

I'm quietly thrilled that my bulk organic bread flour order now comes from a miller just outside Edinburgh rather than from one in Gloucestershire, food mile guilt reduction.

[b]I was in Tesco[/b] last week and heard myself call out to the wife 'darling, I think we are out of walnut oil'. I cringed.

Peasant

I booked the train to go to Athens for a conference next week cos it’s better for the environment and that makes me feel good. 1st Class, obvs.

Rachel

Just had my lunch, had a tot up, seven sorts of cheese to choose from (and not from a cheeseboard for people coming round for a country supper). Edit: and mrsmidlife can't help me eat them up as she's slumming it at the Celtic Manor this week.

better for the environment

Do you mean less bad than some alternative other than not going to Athens?

I just can't decide what chocolate to buy.....

Do you mean less bad than some alternative other than not going to Athens?

All the people sat in the room waiting for me to talk are going to be a bit miffed if I’m not there, though!

I will take that as a yes 🙂

[quote=ian martin ]It's when:
You have a choice of pasta makers in your kitchen.

Did have 4 of them at one point, gave myself a shake now I have 0

I buy my pancetta, and suchlike, from Aldi, but then decant it into Waitrose packaging before returning home

You know that class of person

Who drives a shit car. Everything they own is old and tired but they're actually minted.

Thats me i just bypassed the accumulation of wealth.

I'm sitting in my Zafira in Tescos carpark reading this. Just had a creamy chicken slice. Half price because it had been in the heated cabinet too long.

Screw you all.

I was in Tesco last week and heard myself call out to the wife 'darling, I think we are out of walnut oil'. I cringed.

'Oi Slag', would have been more in keeping with the surroundings, no?

Sorry but with the honorable exception of joshvegas, you all sound like you're trying a bit too hard. Which I hate to say comes across as a bit er, [s]lower middle, or upper lower middle which is even worse[/s].

No can't bring myself to say it. Because that might look like status anxiety which I'm far too secure in my (lack of) status to want to project .

I am paid less than I am worth, I don't use my hands in my trade instead I use my intellect and sit on my butt in an office. I don't own the means of production though 🙁

davosaurusrex - Member
I'm sitting in my Zafira in Tescos carpark reading this. Just had a creamy chicken slice. Half price because it had been in the heated cabinet too long.

Screw you all.

😆

Enjoy these last days of middle-classdom guys, give it two years and we'll all be crawling around in the gutter.

Anyway, can't stop, the bloke who delivers my avocados is at the door.

I shop at Aldi and only go to Waitrose to buy their puffed wheat (non sugared Sugar Puffs) and take advantage of the free coffee.
Saving me the cost of the puffed wheat, and making them virtually free.

Scum.

I don't use my hands

I've got an image of you typing with the tip of your nose now.

Or you wear red cords.

I've got an image of you typing with the tip of your nose now.

Thanks, that's an image that i can use to replace the other thing I thought he might be bashing the keys with.

Although.......chewkw....... would explain a lot?

I'm wearing real pearl earrings ( no, not necklace).
Bought some organic coconut oil, t'was £5.00. omg.

My butler goes to Waitrose for my shopping. Allows more time to peruse the Antique fairs and local drinking establishments. I can then get foobarred on gin.

I'm walking home from work trying desperately not to shit myself after consuming a decidedly dodgy egg mayonnaise sandwich for dinner.

Can I be middle class?

It's when:

You have a choice of pasta makers in your kitchen.

Sorry but with the honorable exception of joshvegas,

*Touches forlock*

CaptainFlashheart - Member

I just can't decide what chocolate to buy.....

there is a whole thread about this somewhere - might help you decide 😉

You know that class of person

Who drives a shit car. Everything they own is old and tired but they're actually minted.

That's not Middle Class; that's Proper Posh. There's nothing so pitiful as fallen Gentry.

I can then get foobarred on gin.

Just found a carrier bag in the bushes so I have got a hat for Ascot this year