Un-cool picnic items

[Cotty]

Another stupid poll of 2,000 people

https://metro.co.uk/2021/08/28/were-sorry-to-say-t...
All off this is suposed to be un-cool. Soundly bloody great to me. The "cool" food and drinks look crap, Non-alcoholic beers? not for me.
Jam sandwiches
Egg and cress sandwiches
Bags of crisps
Ginger beer
Sausage rolls
Quiche Lorraine
Coronation chicken
Potato salad
Chicken drumsticks
Cold sausages
Pasta salad
Stubby beers
Coleslaw
Prosecco
Chardonnay

[soad]

Can’t go wrong with a good Pork Pie, Scotch Egg, smoked salmon (or New York) sandwich.
I even like the potato salad.

[Truckosaurus]

Cotty said:

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Quiche Lorraine
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This is the one item I'd agree with. Quiche is a poor picnic food (also, on most buffets for the same reason) as when served cold it is just a nasty clammy eggy mess.

That said, I'm not a great fan of quiche when it is piping hot either.

[RC1807]

Truckosaurus said:

This is the one item I'd agree with. Quiche is a poor picnic food (also, on most buffets for the same reason) as when served cold it is just a nasty clammy eggy mess.

That said, I'm not a great fan of quiche when it is piping hot either.

Unless it's the type of Quiche John Lewis serve in their dept store restaurants, and it's about 2" deep. Bloody lovely!

[s2kjock]

For me a picnic has to involve some sort of construction, ie some rolls, some butter, some cold meat, tomatoes you slice and put in the roll etc.

I'd even accept bringing a plastic/paper plate and spooning your potato salad onto it, and unpeeling your home-boiled egg.

Just pitching up in the park with a ready made sandwich or a pork pie is just eating takeaway food - eating it sitting on a travel rug doesn't turn it into a picnic. .

[Bacon Is Proof]

Quiche is just a badly failed pie, much the same as that author is a badly failed journalist.
Both should be ashamed.

[Bill]

No10 in the cool foods is protein bars?? At a picnic!

[Riley Blue]

s2kjock said:

For me a picnic has to involve some sort of construction, ie some rolls, some butter, some cold meat, tomatoes you slice and put in the roll etc.

I'd even accept bringing a plastic/paper plate and spooning your potato salad onto it, and unpeeling your home-boiled egg.

Just pitching up in the park with a ready made sandwich or a pork pie is just eating takeaway food - eating it sitting on a travel rug doesn't turn it into a picnic. .

Travel rug? Surely you mean folding chairs and table?

Standards, man, standards!

[andyA700]

Riley Blue said:

Travel rug? Surely you mean folding chairs and table?

Standards, man, standards!

Exactly. Some of our picnics in France were epic and as for Chardonnay being cast aside, what picnic is complete without a chilled Chablis or Meursault? Fresh baguette, roast chicken, pate, celeriac remoulade, olives, tarte aux poireaux and jambon persille.

As for the protein bar, hold the offending person down and shove that bar where the sun doesn't shine.

[Cotty]

s2kjock said:

For me a picnic has to involve some sort of construction, ie some rolls, some butter, some cold meat, tomatoes you slice and put in the roll etc.
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I would usually do that sort of thing at home first. Although slicing and adding the tomato just before eating would be better otherwise it can make the bread soggy.

Last picnic I had was cold chicken pieces I had cooked at home, bag of salad leaves, coleslaw, potato salad and some dressing on plastic plates and plastic cutlery.

[ChevronB19]

Cotty said:

s2kjock said:

For me a picnic has to involve some sort of construction, ie some rolls, some butter, some cold meat, tomatoes you slice and put in the roll etc.
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I would usually do that sort of thing at home first. Although slicing and adding the tomato just before eating would be better otherwise it can make the bread soggy.

Last picnic I had was cold chicken pieces I had cooked at home, bag of salad leaves, coleslaw, potato salad and some dressing on plastic plates and plastic cutlery.

Pan bagnat is perfect for a ‘make the day before’ picnic. Just a shame I’ve never been able to make one anything like approaching those I’ve had in Nice.

[Cotty]

ChevronB19 said:

Pan bagnat is perfect for a ‘make the day before’ picnic. Just a shame I’ve never been able to make one anything like approaching those I’ve had in Nice.

Looks very similar design wise to a shooter's sandwich