I just came across to this lady's article in Observer Food Monthly. Quite interesting and true. How posh is your nosh?, by Mary Killen. Just as with clothing, houses and cars, now there is food. She listed the Posh food and the opposite one. Well the list did help me to know what to serve especially if I'm having some posh guest cominng. Honestly I do enjoy them both…and its very much. Then I have this issue in determining to get my figure back (..there is a reason).. Anyway here’s the list goes:
The opposite ones
Anything on an oval plate
Anything where the cook seems to have tried too hard or with too many ingredients or stacking
Any dish made easy to 'feed' from rather than eat from, ie without cutlery while watching television
Anything not in season
Anything microwaved
Quartered tomatoes, particularly serrated and particularly not in salad
Onion rings
All potatoes in non-recognisable shapes such as croquette, oven chips and above all Smash
Minted lamb
The word 'cereal'. It should be 'cornflakes' whether they are or not
Farmed fish (particularly salmon)
All fish not in recognisable fish shapes (however, posh children eat fish fingers every day)
Trout with almonds
Lemon wedges (the word) not the actual lemon quarter
Crisps
Sprigs of parsley as a garnish (either use a lot of flat-leafed parsley in the dish itself or none at all). Ditto paper hats on rack of lamb or radishes in the shape of flowers
Salad cream
The word 'meal'
Cheesecake and other mucked-about food such as apple strudel
Home-made cappuccino with non-dairy aerosol 'cream'
Sweetcorn off the cob
White pepper unless with cockles
Philadelphia with breadsticks
Meat stuffed and tied up with string
Thick marmalade, particularly if not home-made
Lobster thermidor
Fresh meat bought for curry (leftover meat should always be used)
The word 'nibbles'
Posh food
Very grand food is not only food that is difficult to come by (home-grown vegetables or fruit and hand-bagged game ) but also anything difficult to cook and that would make a non-U person shudder, eg sweetbreads or oxtail, such as:
All fruits and vegetables in season, ideally home-grown
Cold pea soup/nettle soup/gazpacho
Game in season, particularly grouse at beginning of season
Partridge is the top game bird/ptarmigan/ortolan
Your own free-range chickens
Venison
Sweetbreads
Pig's trotters
Brains
Oxtail
Hare (German recipe)
Properly mature mutton
Fry-ups (because honest)
Gulls' eggs with celery salt
Oysters
Any fish with head on which has been gutted by person cooking it
Wild salmon (telltale colour is grey rather than farmed-salmon pink)
Whitebait
Potted shrimps
Crab
Lobster with fresh mayonnaise
Sea bass
Halibut
Turnips, swedes, parsnips
Sweetcorn on the cob
Beetroot
Riced potato
Baked pears
Home-made custard
Baked bananas
Eton Mess (meringue, double cream, raspberries or strawberries)
Bread-and-butter pudding
Rice pudding
Junket
Black chocolate
Local cheddar
Oatcakes
Sage-and-anchovy canapés
Tinned food. Most tinned food is common but some exceptions include: rice pudding, pineapple chunks, corned-beef hash
Home-made mayonnaise
Mustard made from Colman's powder, never ready-mixed