Twitter Shares What Their Trashy Selves Used to Think Was Fancy

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Eric Lund
Jan 14, 2019 3:00 PM EST

Writer Ariel Dumas asked people what stuff they used to think were the height of luxury. Turns out everyone had similar childhoods. Even Jaegermeister dropped into the conversation, to be met with a pretty solid slam.

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    Text - Ariel Dumas Follow @ArielDumas Ok what was the thing you thought was VERY fancy as a kid that turned out not to be? I thought Jägermeister was for sophisticated ladies because my mom sometimes sipped some out of a cordial glass at bedtime.
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    Text - Anna Jones Follow @annainjozi Replying to @ArielDumas I forgot cereal multipacks. Only at your grandparents. This article sums it up brilliantly google.co.uk/amp/s/www.joe. Aelloggs Extilagg Rice Krispies сосо POPS FROSTIES Aellogg's Rice Krispies Alog Honey Kelegge FROSTIES сосо Multi grain Shapes CORN FLAKES
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    Diamond - MehGyver Follow @AndrewNadeau Replying to @ArielDumas Crystal animals. I used to get them for my mom every birthday. I have no idea why. She did not collect them nor show any interest in crystal/collectible figurines. I just thought they were so classy
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    Green - Jessica, D-NY C @AlmostJessica Follow Replying to @ArielDumas Andes mints des 4ndes Andes Rdes CREME DE MEN THE THINS NATURALLY AND ARTFICALLY FLAVORED 28 PIECES Ne mints in protective edges NET WT 4.67 02 (132 g)
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    Text - Ashley C. Ford Follow @iSmashFizzle Replying to@ArielDumas I dreamt one day l'd have a freezer full of this stuff IENNET.
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    Rectangle - (Charlotte Honigman))) @honigmayd Follow Replying to @ArielDumas These things: Englishh Bath Cubes Sels De Bain
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    Text - Jägermeister UK Follow @JagerUK Replying to @ArielDumas Who says we AREN'T for sophisticated ladies?
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    Text - TweetleDeeDee Follow @AnHil Replying to @ArielDumas I kid you not: sanitary napkins. I found a box in grammar school, and spent a good long time trying to suss out how they unfolded before I decided that they must be for SUPER FANCY dinners, and SUPER FANCY people would know how to use them.
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    Product - Teddy, ready w/ the 1, 2 checka @TeddyFresh13 Follow Replying to@JagerUK @ArielDumas This 18C THE PERFEXT SERV Adinecmcile Gagermeilrer
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    Text - |Sarah Shockey Follow @sarahjoyshockey Replying to emollypriddy @ArielDumas I wrote a paper about the Indianapolis Art Museum in 3rd grade where I said "as soon as I got inside I thought, this place must be a MAJOR tourist trap!" because before that all the cool places I wanted to stop at on trips were flippantly referred to as such
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    Text - Britt Parbs Follow @beepstweets Replying to @ArielDumas Often when my dad would travel he'd bring me home a purple Crown Royal bag and I'd get so excited. My mom would get very mad and I never understood why until years later. On multiple levels. At the time I was like, why don't you want me to have nice things, mom?!
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    Text - Kelly 4 Dayz Follow @kixoxo Replying to @ArielDumas I thought "concubine" was a fancy word for second wife. I mean... technically it is(???), but my mom wasn't super happy that I was going around telling people that she was my dad's concubine.
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    Text - Kiley Reid @kileyreid Follow Replying to @ArielDumas My best friend's dad would order us pizza, and after serving us, he would KEEP THE PIZZA BOX IN THE OVEN AND TURN THE OVEN ON WARM LUXURIOUS
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    Text - mcboatface Follow @miwayha Replying to @ArielDumas Applebee's was the fanciest restaurant in my home town and I didn't really realize non- chain restaurants existed so I thought you spent all of your major life milestones at chain restaurants and I was very out of place at the Ivy League school I lucked myself into at age 19
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    Chocolate bar - David Iserson Follow @davidiserson Replying to @ArielDumas My parents would hide these and said they were too expensive for kids to eat. The name was French so the story checked out LU PETIT ÉCOLIER milk chocolate/chocolat au lait NET WT/POIDS NET 1506529 02 EUROPEAN BISCUITS-BISCUITS EUROPENS M
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    Text - Gwen Gilpin @Gwennie_G Follow Replying to @ArielDumas Two-story houses. Growing up in a one-story home, I always assumed my friends who had stairs in their house were very rich
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    Font - Tsar @Boudreauxdadog Replying to@ArielDumas Follow Whitman's Sampler because we only had it at Christmas and you could only take one piece at a time Beeeeeee08e2/882880aa022 Whitmon's Sampler Asorted Chocolates NET WT 40 0Z (2 LB 8 02) 1.134g eeeseeae088081
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    Text - pizzadrone @pizzadrone Follow Replying to @ArielDumas The butter that was scooped into balls that you'd get on your pancakes at Denny's
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