Crumpets and Class

[HappyHour@TheBreweryOfLife]

The upper class don't know what the class system is
The middle class spend all their time claiming to be middle class when actually they are working class
The working class are too busy to care
The lower "Kyle" class are too busy beating their kids and drinking Stella to answer.

Property ownership, multiple cars, subscription TV and foreign holidays were once the daydreams of your hard-grafting blue-collar worker, but no more.

Ergo there is no longer a 'working class' but an extended 'middle'.

[RadioDept]

I eat crumpets for breakfast. Toasted on the high setting that always sets off the sodding smoke alarm, lashings of butter, and bovril on top.

I also occasionally have all that, but with cheddar on top as a snack, at all different times of the day.

One of my colleagues recently described me as 'middle middle class', so I'll go with that.

When at uni I was accused of being upper class simply for calling crumpets crumpets - apparently they are known as 'pikelets' in some parts of the country, but I don't hold with that kind of nonsense.

[RubiconCSL]

Any time is crumpet time, but I guess I'd say I've mostly had my crumpet at the breakfast table (phnarr phnarr).

Class? Probably very over-achieved working class, but just because I sometimes travel first class, it still doesn't make me feel I'm anything but working class. I'm still more comfortable swearing and cursing at a football match, than I'll ever be at some swanky evening do. A canapé will always be a horse's doofers to me.

[Lost in Transportation]

When at uni I was accused of being upper class simply for calling crumpets crumpets - apparently they are known as 'pikelets' in some parts of the country, but I don't hold with that kind of nonsense.

Pikelets are thinner versions. Can't use a good toasting fork in them at all.

[RubiconCSL]

I was just thinking, we used to eat jam doughnuts in class; does that count?

[Milkins]

and the point of this survey was.....?

...pleasuring someone who gets off on talking about crumpets?

[Milkins]

I was just thinking, we used to eat jam doughnuts in class; does that count?

...not even as one of your five a day - and not even with the fruit from the jam.


...or is it seven a day?

[Guernsey Blue]

I was just thinking, we used to eat jam doughnuts in class; does that count?

Ah, but did you lick your lips though?

In the aforementioned Class of 72, Dave "Slagheap" Sturgess could eat 6 Soothill's jam doughnuts without licking his lips once.

[Milkins]

I was just thinking, we used to eat jam doughnuts in class; does that count?

Ah, but did you lick your lips though?

In the aforementioned Class of 72, Dave "Slagheap" Sturgess could eat 6 Soothill's jam doughnuts without licking his lips once.

...and latterly not being able to fit into his school uniform.

[Portchester PFC]

When at uni I was accused of being upper class simply for calling crumpets crumpets - apparently they are known as 'pikelets' in some parts of the country, but I don't hold with that kind of nonsense.

Pikelets are thinner versions. Can't use a good toasting fork in them at all.

Pikelets definitely in the midlands, once had a row about that but that's another story !!

Breakfast with lashings of full chat butter, afternoon with not as many lashings of butter but vintage cheddar and a splash of Worcestershire sauce, lovely and probably middle class, just about.

[travellingpompey]

Afternoon and middle I guess.

[Miss Tickle's bottom]

Thank you for all your answers, very interesting.

and the point of this survey was.....?

I often frequent a forum for crossword solvers. A crossword earlier in the week caused a bit of a furore (these people don't get out much) as crumpet was clued as a breakfast food. I was just curious how others thought.
A pikelet to me is a finger-shaped crumpet.

[Ziggy Sawdust]

Thank you for all your answers, very interesting.

and the point of this survey was.....?

I often frequent a forum for crossword solvers. A crossword earlier in the week caused a bit of a furore (these people don't get out much) as crumpet was clued as a breakfast food. I was just curious how others thought.
A pikelet to me is a finger-shaped crumpet.

The cruciverbalist (I have just this minute learnt this word. Good innit?) was obviously working class.

Good survey MTB. Very interesting! A pikelet to me is a very thin crumpet.

How about a muffin?

[Miss Tickle's bottom]

How about a muffin?

I thought you'd never ask! My place or yours?

[Locky_McLockface]

How about a muffin?

I thought you'd never ask! My place or yours?

Her friend's place, I'd imagine, she's invited everyone else.