A British lawyer is in hot water for throwing what she called a 鈥渃ouncil estate鈥 themed dinner party and boastfully sharing the menu on social media.
Sophie Murgatroyd has been branded 鈥渢one deaf鈥 by other LinkedIn users after she shared details of a recent get-together she hosted for friends, Metro reported.
鈥淚 love cooking for my friends... the theme of tonight鈥檚 meal was 鈥榗ouncil estate dinner鈥,鈥 she said, listing chicken dippers, smiley faces, beans and turkey dinosaurs among the evening鈥檚 dishes.
Other items on the menu included Vienetta, ginger cake and bucks fizz, with Murgatroyd adding the hashtag 鈥淚 need a rennie鈥 in reference to the popular indigestion drug.
The post, now deleted, attracted scathing comments from other members of the site鈥檚 community while it was live.
Mental health assessor Rose-Marie Macintyre criticised the Cheshire-based lawyer for mocking and degrading an already marginalised group.
鈥淐ouncil estate meals sounds so demeaning to people living there. Some people who have mortgages can鈥檛 even afford those foods.鈥
LLM Law chief people officer Beverley Borkowski had similar reservations about the post, describing the 鈥渢heme鈥 as 鈥渢one deaf鈥.
Murgatroyd, 35, told Cheshire Life in 2018 she was deliberately seeking a home with room for horses, having grown up riding the animals on her parents鈥 Harrogate farm.
鈥淵es, the house could have been an absolute palace but if it didn鈥檛 have room for stables, then it just didn鈥檛 cut the mustard.
鈥淚 cannot live without horses and while my Cheshire friends are very kind and let me ride gorgeous horses... it will be fantastic to have horses living with me once again.鈥
On Roll On Friday, a local legal site, one commenter said: 鈥淧oshos mocking working class people who actually have to work for a living and not just being given a load of horses as a kid.鈥
But Murgatroyd doubled down on the post when questioned by the publication.
鈥淲ho knew what I had for dinner would be of such concern to everyone. Tonight, I am having sausage, mash, peas and a bucket of gravy.
鈥淔or me, where I grew up, or where my friends grew up is totally irrelevant. It鈥檚 about spending time with good people like we do most weeks.鈥
In an interview with the Daily Mail, she said she does not feel the dinner party was 鈥渋nsensitive鈥 and claimed she deleted the post only because she couldn鈥檛 respond to all the comments.
鈥淚t doesn鈥檛 matter where I鈥檓 from or what food I eat. In the same way that I would have Mexican food last week and I鈥檓 not Mexican.
鈥淚f people want to shop at a farm shop, I don鈥檛 take offence because they didn鈥檛 grow up on a farm.鈥
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