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BaldDwarfOnPCP posted:Essentially all brown mustards, but especially I tried this finally as an adult and it sucks
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Tenkaris posted:Frasier Crane In hindsight Frasier reminds me a lot of my brother. Came from a blue collar family, first generation to go to college, married a girl from a rich family and got up his own rear end about rejecting anything not fancy because he's insecure about his class status.
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DrBouvenstein posted:A particular thing I remember is that I thought of using "Hamburger Helper" as fancy because I'd see it in stores/commercials, but WE didn't have it, so therefore it must be fancy...right? I keep thinking about this one, I never would've come up with it on my own but it's 100% accurate. I mean, various noodles and sauces with burger mixed in were even in my mom's regular cooking rotation, and I'm sure they were higher quality since they were made from scratch. But the fancy box version must be so much better, we probably can't have it because it's too delicious 
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My dad worked at Ferrero's factory and yet I still thought these were the hoytie-toytiest fanciest and thereby most expensive chocolates you could get. We only ever got them at Christmas in the employee gift hamper, along with a Tic-Tac T-shirt and a bunch of other Ferrero products that never got sold in Ireland.
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Eating at Red Lobster Going to movie theaters that had new movies. We went to dollar theaters. When I spent the night at a friends house and learned we were gonna see a movie that came out that weekend, I didn’t believe it until the movie actually started playing. I thought they were tricking me
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I just remembered those Hickory Farms gift baskets. Somebody would send us one for Christmas every once in a while, and it always seemed ridiculously indulgent despite being comprised of things we probably had on hand anyway, probably because everything was in tiny individual packages. Small jam jars?  Little salamis?  Cheese wedges with a flavor more robust than mozzarella or American? 🤯
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Oct 2, 2023 01:51
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Captain Hygiene posted:I just remembered those Hickory Farms gift baskets. Somebody would send us one for Christmas every once in a while, and it always seemed ridiculously indulgent despite being comprised of things we probably had on hand anyway, probably because everything was in tiny individual packages.
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Oct 2, 2023 02:06
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stealie72 posted:Man, they're not fancy at all but I still love getting those or one of those Harry and David things. They're just a little holiday party in a basket for only thrice what you would pay for the items at a regular store. Yeah, I made myself hungry for one writing that out. That's all stuff I could just go buy at the store right now, but I really want it in basket form! 
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Oct 2, 2023 02:08
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There's a local version of Hickory Farms in my area called Dakin Farms, and it is a lot closer to the fanciness we all thought Hickory Farms was. Local VT/New England/NY meats, cheeses, honey, jams, snacks, etc...
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I was also a poor 80’s kid. Any sit down restaurant was an occasion. Seeing other kids get new sneakers before the last pair was literally falling apart was inconceivable to me. I’d get a new pair at the start of the school year and I’d be wearing those fuckers till the next year. Also, foreign cars. I don’t think my family had anything other than Fords or Chevys and all of them were very much used up when we got them. One of our neighbors got a new Nissan Maxima and it seriously felt like being in a space ship compared to moms 76 Ford LTD.
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stealie72 posted:Man, they're not fancy at all but I still love getting those or one of those Harry and David things. They're just a little holiday party in a basket for only thrice what you would pay for the items at a regular store. the pears are really good
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Oct 2, 2023 11:39
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M’y childhood best friend’s house had a basement. And not just that. There was this storage tunnel place in there with two!!! doors. Inside there, he had a whole drat second N64. What was that place, Versailles?
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Wasn't impressed until the second N64. Jesus, the opulence
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I had the strange impression that table lamps were fancy.
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grittyreboot posted:Myrtle Beach Myrtle Beach has gone so fuckin' downhill. TwoPair posted:I have a feeling this is a pretty universal experience for everyone growing up in South Carolina (or indeed much of the South) North Carolina for sure. If your family was going on vacation to Myrtle y'all were *fancy*.
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:My dad worked at Ferrero's factory and yet I still thought these were the hoytie-toytiest fanciest and thereby most expensive chocolates you could get. We only ever got them at Christmas in the employee gift hamper, along with a Tic-Tac T-shirt and a bunch of other Ferrero products that never got sold in Ireland. Someone in the Irish Sea definitely pulled some poo poo with these because my family thought the same thing
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Oct 2, 2023 21:13
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In high school. all my friends had cable TV with HBO! Looking back now, they only got about 12 channels. Still, that was high-living.
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Poo In An Alleyway posted:My dad worked at Ferrero's factory and yet I still thought these were the hoytie-toytiest fanciest and thereby most expensive chocolates you could get. We only ever got them at Christmas in the employee gift hamper, along with a Tic-Tac T-shirt and a bunch of other Ferrero products that never got sold in Ireland. Oh yeah those "Ambassador's Reception" ads convinced me those were exclusive high society things. I'm hosting a bunch of dignitaries tonight, good thing Ferrero Rocher is £6 for a 24 pack with my Tesco Clubcard app.
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git apologist posted:coronation street The soap opera?
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How about those Royal Dansk Butter Cookies that came in those round tins that grandmas always would repurpose as sewing kits As a kid I assumed it was because the cookies were really expensive and she wanted to keep the tin as a memento of the time when there were cookies in it, the sewing supplies were just a bonus
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Data Graham posted:How about those Royal Dansk Butter Cookies that came in those round tins that grandmas always would repurpose as sewing kits My dad used to keep all his old receipts in those tins.
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bitterandtwisted posted:Oh yeah those "Ambassador's Reception" ads convinced me those were exclusive high society things.
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Double entry but I just remembered this. When we would take road trips when I was a kid, stopping at a Holiday Inn and seeing the "Sanitized!" paper band around the toilet seat made me think we were in a high-class joint. I have no idea when or if they stopped this; it would have been late 70s or so that I'm remembering.
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Admiralty Flag posted:Double entry but I just remembered this. When we would take road trips when I was a kid, stopping at a Holiday Inn and seeing the "Sanitized!" paper band around the toilet seat made me think we were in a high-class joint. That reminds me of going to Disney World as a kid. Specifically that was the one time my aunt took me and we stayed at one of the on-property Mouse-owned fancy hotels that cost five hundred billion dollars, and the housekeeper knew I was a little kid and would leave the fresh wash cloths folded into various cute animals. That felt like I was royalty. Really the entirety of Disney prolly counts. I've been there as an adult and it's still fun, but it feels as trashy as it is vs being a kid and thinking it's heaven on earth.
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zedprime posted:The Ferrero empire is basically built on using post war Italian hazelnut production to make cheap chocolatey Nutella and Rocher and then advertising the hell out of them as fancy. Chocolate money for Mediterranean nuts is very lucrative. That takes me back. When I was a kid, we got to visit some friends who'd moved to France, and Nutella was one of the foods I saw for the first time that really made an impression on me. It felt way too decadent and exotic, for something that you could actually just grab at the grocery store. Same for Teisseire drink concentrates. They're functionally the same thing as kool-aid mix, but the fact that they were liquid in big fancy looking cans just made them seem extra special. I think this thread had established how little it took to amaze me as a kid, now slap fancy foreign words on top of that, and it'll blow me away
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Both quality street and cadburys roses. Roses are still kinda fancy in my mind...
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Scalloped potatoes. Not the real ones, the ones from a box. We only had them when we had the type of company that warranted the nice plates and the linen tablecloths so I just assumed. Also cranberry sauce with actual cranberries in it (still from a can though). Turns out it was a rare treat because my mom fuckin hates it and likes the flavored jello kind, so we'd only have it on holidays when the store was out of that. Oh, and anything from the ocean. Fish, shramp, crab, seaweed, doesn't matter. Aside from canned tuna we never had any of it, and my ludicrously rich friend's parents found out and started making fish every time I was over (thanks for trying, Weiss family) which reinforced the idea. Once again, just something my mom didn't like. Also I don't know if I would say I thought it was fancy but Jewish holidays. Most of my friends were Jewish or half, and my parents were non-observing Christians because my older brother went too hard in the paint on Jesus (he's a Westboro-adjacent Baptist and refers to his kids as "God's warriors"). Because I never really had any religious holidays, several families adopted me for the purpose and they had all the fanciest accessories so it was always a huge to-do with extended family coming over, and I was always made to feel included (partly because nobody really knew whose kids were whose) which was both nice and extremely unique. My friend Doug's grandfather even gave me a bootleg Mitzvah in their living room on a rainy afternoon. Jewish holidays were always a good time.
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For a while in the 90s and early 00s, I would stay in motels and hotels which had those "you can steal the removable part but it'll be useless" hangers: So every time a hotel would have proper hangers, I'd think of it as a serious step up. Was it? Maybe!
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Owning a dishwasher. Every house or apartment I’ve lived in as an adult has had one, but when I was a kid, having a whole-rear end machine to just wash your cups and plates was some rich-people notions.
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Trabant posted:For a while in the 90s and early 00s, I would stay in motels and hotels which had those "you can steal the removable part but it'll be useless" hangers: Oh my god THAT'S what those weird rings in the closet in my old apartment were??? Why did my apartment have those???
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Killingyouguy! posted:Oh my god THAT'S what those weird rings in the closet in my old apartment were??? Why did my apartment have those??? you were living in a cheap motel, that's why
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Trabant posted:For a while in the 90s and early 00s, I would stay in motels and hotels which had those "you can steal the removable part but it'll be useless" hangers: I would simply buy the little things they attach to at the top
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Those battery operated cars kids could sit in and drive. I had a secondhand one that I had to pedal like a loving chump
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poo poo Fuckasaurus posted:Also I don't know if I would say I thought it was fancy but Jewish holidays. Most of my friends were Jewish or half, and my parents were non-observing Christians because my older brother went too hard in the paint on Jesus (he's a Westboro-adjacent Baptist and refers to his kids as "God's warriors"). Because I never really had any religious holidays, several families adopted me for the purpose and they had all the fanciest accessories so it was always a huge to-do with extended family coming over, and I was always made to feel included (partly because nobody really knew whose kids were whose) which was both nice and extremely unique. My friend Doug's grandfather even gave me a bootleg Mitzvah in their living room on a rainy afternoon. Jewish holidays were always a good time. I dunno, growing up Jewish holidays did feel fancy. Even Friday night dinner. You put on nice clothes and have a nice meal. I have to ask, though, what do you have in mind when you say "gave you a bootleg Mitzvah"? Because I only know the term "mitzvah" as a religious commandment, out colloquially as a good deed. ....oh, wait, you mean Bar Mitzvah? You had a bootleg Bar Mitzvah? That's hilarious!  What did that entail?
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RC and Moon Pie posted:My hometown had only a Dairy Queen, KFC, Hardee's, and Subway for the longest. Thus, any drive-thru place not in my hometown was a treat. That included McDonald's, until we finally got one of those when I was a teen. My family's treat place was KFC, so going to McDonald's seemed like some enormous upgrade, probably because I was too young to pay for myself at either establishment.
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Hyperlynx posted:I dunno, growing up Jewish holidays did feel fancy. Even Friday night dinner. You put on nice clothes and have a nice meal. I had a bootleg Bar Mitzvah but it was referred to as "the bootleg Mitzvah" the entire weekend so I assumed it was correct. Basically the family was in town shortly after Doug (the grandson's) Bar Mitzvah. I was friends with a lot of older kids, so at this point I had been to a Bar, Bat, or Bene Mitzvah once a month or so for two years and I knew most of the words, but Grandpa went over them with me. I'm a third or so Jewish but in all the wrong ways (3 of my grandparents are fractionally Jewish, none more than half and none practicing) so grandpa said Yahweh would appreciate us dropping a line for old times sake. The kids had been working on go-carts all weekend so the rain spoiled our fun, so I had a lot of time to go over the lines and what they meant. It ended up being a 40 minute thing very different than any I had attended prior, then they lifted me up on a chair a few times before hurling me into the pool and having a catered dinner. My mom came for dinner but didn't want to attend the ceremony (though she approved) because of her complex relationship with God. I don't know the extent to which they planned it but I did get an embroidered yamulke and we partied all night. My mom was asked if she wanted to come but she didn't. Anyway it's my understanding that mine was similar to what you'd get in a war if you didn't have a handy temple (grandpa was a former rabbi so that but was legit) and were trying not to draw attention. Its been 20 years so I'm not sure the thrust of what I said to my boy Yahweh, but afterwards I talked to the rabbi the next time I attended services and I remember him talking about how Yahweh doesn't give a single gently caress about any of it and it's all for us, so if I wanted to be Jewish I could try it on for a bit before committing with his blessing. I did and it didn't feel any more right, particularly, than Jesus. I ended up being atheist, but again the same Rabbi said that Yahweh, Eternal God-King of the Rules Lawyers, would be 100% fine if after I died he was like "so I'm not real?" and I had evidence. He actually said that Yahweh would be happier with that than unexamined belief. So basically I'm an atheist but if push comes to shove, the God of the Jews knows about me and has my back. E: None of this is intended to offend, God/Yahweh/Allah is a multifaceted entity capable of being a great many things at once, and that's the face He chose to show me. Yours will be different, and that's great. Shit Fuckasaurus has a new favorite as of 18:27 on Oct 5, 2023 |
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