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Come Dine With Me - Series 4 So you think your food's posh?

Date Published:: 01/04/2008

Lobster, oysters, caviar - nothing shows good breeding better than a top notch dinner menu. But just how classy is a quail's egg? It's time to sort the culinary 'haves' from the 'think they haves' and expose the foods that aren't as posh as they pretend.

2. Dessert

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2. Dessert (Image 2 of 8)

Calling the sweet dish served at the end of a meal dessert is a common schoolboy error that will show you up as a fawning social climber like an air hostess bear-hugging the Queen.

'Dessert' should be dropped from posh vocabulary in favour of the stodgier sounding but more upmarket 'pudding'. Other food terms that masquerade as posh are; 'preserve' (say 'jam'), 'serviette' (say 'napkin') and 'greens' (it's 'vegetables', scum).