Middle Class Problems

Chutney with common pears- duh. I make mine with quince, no less does that make me middle-class then

All the talk of using one supermarket's bags in a different shop reminds me of the days when my mother would make me stand outside a shop with her bags so that they wouldn't know that she'd been somewhere else. Would they have even cared???

I have several durable bags for shopping, 1 from Sainsburys, 1 from Tesco, 1 from Migros Switzerland, one from HyperU from France and one from Tuscany. Not that I want to show off my International background - pure chance, lol Or does that make me middle-class.
I also use a big hessian bag from Cecil Jacobs - sadly now closed (thanks Amazon )

My 'green' hessian shopping bag is from the Christie hospital, I think that makes me 'virtuous' not much else does

Virtually a saint, Ella!

A saint and a Lady Ana , how wrong can they be?

Does anyone remember string bags?

Oh yes ! Weren't they funny? Such large holes it was a wonder the shopping didn't fall out.

I use a string bag for fruit & veg, it holds lots and I tie the long handles together to keep the contents from falling out in the car.

I have a variety of shopping bags, but still occasionally buy a new one if something takes my fancy.

As I said above, I have two string bags. I got them on Ebay. Where else?

Sorry Anno didn't spot that

I have quite a few string bags. Fairly new too (by which I mean less than ten years old). They aren't difficult to find at various online shops. You can get coloured ones now too.

My son-in-law likes bags. For xmas last DD1 sent me a canvas bag printed with a red squirrel eating an acorn, and the word "Nutter". I expect it was from both of them. I love it and I love that that's how they think of me .

Nothing to do with my gransnet name, by the way. That is a shrinkage of something else.

Another string bag fan here. I just have the one now, made by a friend. My all time favourite string bag was one I had in the 70's - multi-coloured with leather handles. Very roomy.
I mostly shop with an old, soft and round african basket - that's very roomy as well.

My mother had a couple of string bags on her person at all times for years!!! Either in her bag or a pocket. I have a couple of the nylon bags you fold up and put in a little pouch - they are very handy too. This place is great for reviving memories!!

I'm just back from a middle class holiday in Berlin and Potsdam, where we went in our Mercedes, me and my academic husband. But in Germany we are classless!

All this talk of class. 8 pages up to now. It is really all in the British mind.
Perhaps it is better than just being judged by what you own, like the rest of Europe judges its populations. People with money usually hang together but going to, or being sent to private school in Germany is a sign of failure. Either the child can't be educated or the parents have failed to produce a child who can cope with the German school system.

If faced with a test, most Germans wouldn't know which class they belong to. It is common fact that in the Third Reich people were judged by race and not by money, or education. Judging anyone for any reason is just not done now.

I now really don't know which is middle class, but I drink my tea out of bone china because the tea tastes better, keeps hotter, and abhor the fashion for thick pottery mugs for either coffee or tea. We also don't drink beer straight from the bottle/can but our sons- in- law do. It is a generation thing.
I still don't know what samphire is. It is not in my computer dictionary.

This is a fun thread Margaret We are laughing at ourselves

Oh yes!

OK then, who else has drunk wine out of a jam jar?

I expect you can really good ones at Aldi or Waitrose. Cheaper than crystal too.

Bags

Bet they hold a lot though!!

Talking about wine and the drinking of it. I know of someone who forgot the corkscrew when they went to a holiday villa but would not be beaten. Searching the house for a likely tool they came across an ornamental sword on the sitting room wall, one quick swish and the neck of the bottle was severed.

harrigran I always carry a corkscrew in my handbag for just such occasions. The cover of the spiral bit slots sideways into the top to make a handle and while it's not the best corkscrew in the world, it works okay if you don't have an ornamental sword handy. It also has a bottle opener bit. I must remember to take it out of my bag and put it somewhere else before I try to board a plane on Friday.