OK. Things you thought were the last word in sophistication the first time you encountered them.

[Berni]

For me, the first time I was in a restaurant where they had those little muslin cloth things over the lemon wedge so that you didn't get pips in your foor, I thought I'd arrived.

[Classic Jorge]

Especially the lesser spotted mint variety.

****, I could kill for a vienetta right now.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

At the age of 11. I couldn't f**king believe it.

[Berni]

My friends' mums shopped at 'Bejams' (Iceland, basically) and brought back all manner of processed delights whereas we had to make do with home-cooked food made from scratch out of proper ingredients. My sisters and I still sometimes rail at my parents because we never got Angel Delight :-(

[Snin]

[Jake]

[Snin]

[Berni]

For an Irish.

[Classic Jorge]

I so badly miss my other half's cooking it's unreal. Unsurprisingly my daughter doesnt feel the same way at all and is in love with KFC.

[Classic Jorge]

Are we talking Hampstead Dollies and Trendy Camden Girls here?

[Classic Jorge]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

mind you she did have her mouth full.

[Berni]

Also, hot hand towels in restaurants. They still thrill me slightly - as long as I don't think about how well or otherwise they've been laundered. :-(

[Jake]

Probably why I've ended up with one.

[Classic Jorge]

[Classic Jorge]

Lord knows how I ended up with a girl from Yorkshire, I blame all the drugs in the heady days of the dotcom boom.