What do people think is fancy, but is actually tacky or trashy?

Lobster. It was originally poor people’s food. Crustaceans are just insects of the sea.

They taste good though
- When they're fresh, have been kept on ice, boiled in clean water, and served up with garlic butter they are.
  When you send the scullery maid down to the shore to shovel up whatever washed up, throw it in a pot and boil the shit out of it... Well I imagine it's marginally better than starving anyways.

Clothing with brand names all over the place

SUPREME.
- Gucci
I don't buy clothing with any kind of text on it. What most designer put on clothes is either so bland or just advertising.

Military parades

Especially for draft dodgers, imagine one of those would ask for a military parade for his birthday.

Anything gilt in gold. Its a poor mans idea of wealth

Have you seen the new improved oval office?
- Case in point

Fake nails.

Food with gold leaf. It doesn't add to the taste, it doesn't add to the look, but rich people and wannabe alike love it because it has gold and they have trash taste. If i went fine dining and see a gold leaf covered food, imma send it back because it's aurum contaminated. And i said it as someone who won't ever set foot in fine dining restaurant.

Why is it an objectively trashy: it's a simplest way to appease those wealth chaser and showoff, yet it takes 0 effort to apply it and overcharging their food.

And gold leaf isn't even that expensive
A single leaf is so thin, that is costs only a little over a buck. The tiny piece of gold on your fancy food? Only a couple cents
But you can bet your ass that you will pay way more than that
- Exactly the reason that confuse me about these trend, and we can't even verify it's actual gold instead of edible imitation. It's basically telling people you're rich enough to get scam.
- fine dining's price is loosely coupled to the ingredient cost for everything but the most expensive ones
  Gold leaf is cheap yes, but they are paying for 'the experience'
  Is it stupid? Yes
  But not even close to the moderately stupid spectrum of human idiocy
Saw a thing about the world's most expensive pizza ($2k+) the other night. Squid ink pizza dough, caviar, truffles, gold leaf, etc. It looked revolting.
- A lot of people doesn't realise that expensive ingredient doesn't make the best food, it just make them look pretentious.
- Okay, squid ink pizza dough sounds intriguing.
that was salt-baes thing, overpriced, overcooked food with a little gold.
- and for some reason his forearm sweat...
wait till you figure out that some rich people like the fact it makes their shit gold flecked

Trump.

Teslas

They've always looked like they were a toy car to me
- At first I thought it was neat how unflashy they looked, after a while I found them boring and unremarkable and then I realised they look like car examples you would find in a 3D design program.

Giant fake gold chains lol

Any clothing brand that is just expensive for most individuals to buy (ie. Gucci, Michael Kors, Lui Vutton, and others). These are all made incredibly cheap and flimsy, and you are just paying for the brand. Most of the wealthy will either buy the same brand but from their exclusive collection (not available to commoners) that are actually well made and durable, or will buy other brands (ie. John Lobb, Schaeffer’s, Frette) that actually last so long that they can be passed down if wanted. Lastly, when you see someone famous or wealthy appearing on the spotlight with something you can buy at a store (mostly super expensive like a Bellenciaga) they are lended to them for the publicity alone.

I just personally prefer to dress like Adam Sandler most of the time.

Yes, rich people tend to wear expensive but durable clothes that last a long time.
Have also noticed they tend to drive older cars too. I guess they have nothing to prove to anyone else.
My grandma was wealthy as fuck. All her clothes were made for her. She'd have died before she bought any kind of label, she thought they were common.

Clothes who's primary purpose seems to be to let others know what brand it is. As if I'm supposed to be impressed you bought a Jack Jones t shirt. Couldn't you just have bought a nice T-shirt without the branding? No because it's all about being a brand whore - trashy.

Making champagne bottles pop.

To quote one of my old sommeliers, opening a bottle of sparkling wine should be "as quiet as a nun's fart in Mass".

For those who don't get the reference. Nun farts are very quiet because of all the butt sex loosening them up. It also keeps the priests away from the kids. It's a win win all around.
But...why? Popping the cork is fun and festive, and considering most people only have that experience a handful of times in their lives, why try to stifle that little joy?
- "Fancy" people who have champagne often aren't going to be impressed. Think of it this way; tourists come to New York and gawk at things the locals have been ignoring for years.
- When I worked in catering we were taught to open bottles quietly because the sound of bottles being popped sounds like money being spent to the event organiser and you want to serve/charge them for as many bottles as possible.
- It's fun and festive... if they "only have that experience a handful of times in their lives". If you do it on the reg, it's just wasting the product. That distinction is what the question is about.
- You can buy a bottle of sparkling wine for $20.

The Kardashains

MAGA apparel and flags.

Most cars especially BMW, Cybertrucks, corvettes, cameros, Hummers. Chat gpt, caviar, phone ring tones, expensive weddings, store bought cakes/cupcakes, fake grass/colored rock landscaping, overpaying/over borrowing for higher education.

store bought cakes
All store bought cakes?
- Yeah, they lost me there.
Hummers... I've rarely ever seen someone pull off the style you need to have to not look tacky.
I'm still holding my judgement on caviar. I assume there's a reason that it's so popular, and not just because it's expensive, which is to say that I think the people shelling out to eat it wouldn't do so if it tasted like fish ass.
- I used to work in the seafood industry and I got invited to a seafood expo once. There were tons of vendors and since I'm super poor and not fancy, i ate everything. Figured I'd never get another chance. I ate so much caviar and roe that day.
  It's fuckin' nasty. Every species and preparation I tried. Tbf I was at an expo, not a nice resturant, but also tbf, it was an expo, they were trying to market their best products.
- I’ve had it and while it’s good it’s often served with hard boiled eggs and crackers so it kinda tasted like those things. I would say it’s overrated.
I absolutely love my Audi but I can’t argue that it isn’t a pile of shit.
Cars? ChatGPT, the free service? Ringtones???
have you ever driven a BMW? Not one of the SUVs but like a 3 series?
it's considered something fancy for a reason, the cars are quality engineering and have a unique quality to the feeling of it's drive
- a unique quality to the feeling of it's drive
  I have to admit I'm skeptical, and not just because it sounds written by a marketing team.
  Things like the subjective feeling of something are strongly socially determined. When we're told something is fancy or high quality we have a different and better experience of that thing.
  As humans it's rarely possible to separate our experience of a thing from our judgements of the people and identities we associate with it.

Panther print. Gold lamé sandals. Lip filler. Spray tan.

And where I come from: expensive German SUVs, preferably Mercedes.

flashy, gaudy gold, or diamond encrusted rooms by rich people.

Maralago

The shear overwhelming amount of times I've seen this exact question posted.

sheer
- cheers

Full sets of matching cookware. Its almost always a bunch of display junk that never gets used. Buy your stuff as individual pieces, you'll likely have nicer quality. This goes for pots, pans, knives, silverware, spatulas, damn near everything cooking related.

Personal opinion, all-clad is overrated. Their skillet/saucepan handles are shit and hurt to hold for longer cooking sessions.

Do you have a YouTube channel?
- Lol. I ain't good at content creation AFAIK. Jack of all trades, master of like 2 at best.
  J Kenji Lopez-Alt and Alton Brown are pretty good for the more technical side of things tho

Luxury clothes bags jewellery etc. Old money will walk down the street and look like just some average guy.

Arrogant behaviour

Social media

Cocaine.

How is cocaine considered fancy
- It's a "rich person" vice.

Literally everything

Horse races

Crocs.

Who the hell thinks Crocs are fancy?
- Rich people in florida. You might pay $30 or whatever. These dumbasses will pay thousands of dollars for designer crocs.
  Yes. Seriously. They think it's a status symbol and fashion statement.
  I'm like "You coulda got those at walmart like everybody else".
I love my crocs but they certainly aren't fancy to me. I think they look stupid but they're great camp shoes and they're perfect to slip on for river crossings while out hiking.
Mine are at least 10 years old and they're pretty beat but very much still functional.

Iggy Azalea

I think that that's pretty much a subjective question. I could tell you what I find tacky, but it won't be a universal. Some people will have different positions, and there isn't one "correct" view to have. It's like asking what the best flavor of ice cream is, or the best song.