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I'm going on a picnic on Wednesday, and whilst I have been on many a picnic, I never been in charge of food for one.

Any suggestions for neat food that is nice in a picnic setting?

Also, it is with a pretty girl, who plays video games (proper ones too). Hi5.

Rice Krispy cakes! Booze!



Shippu Mahou Daisakusen?

Mass Effect, and she was very interested to hear my opinion of Red Faction Guerilla.

Cajun chicken. A very rare food that is nicer cold than hot. Dice and fry some chicken in oil and chuck a pile of cajun in. Let it cool down, and snack on it. Lovely stuff. Do the same with honey, lemon juice, and garlic instead, and you've got a sweet one to complement it. Make a bunch of simple sandwiches with ham and lettuce, prawns, cooked chicken, cheese and onion, and eighth them. Make a bit of salad and whack some dressing on it. Bring some picnic eggs and sausage rolls from a shop. Make or buy some dips and bring pitta bread and/or tortilla chips, and kettle chips (these are lovely now, not the glassy jaw-lacerating monstrosities they were when I tried them three or four years ago). Some grapes are good, and make some apple wedges. Bananas are lovely, but don't keep well and aren't something you can pick at. Maybe a fruit salad. Cocktail sausages. Condoms A frisbee.

Cheese & pickle sandwiches! (Use wholemeal sub rolls!)

Silly 'gourmet' crisps!

Happy Faces biscuits!

Edit: I want Sinister Agent to be in charge of my next picnic.

I am currently considering applications to join our next barbecue on the 18th.

You shallow bastard.

Everyone knows that the picnic staples are: sandwiches; crisps; pork pies; scotch eggs; pickled onions; sausage rolls; etc. Just as many pastry items as possible. Maybe a cake and some wine too.

I'm sure I once bought someone as a wedding present a proper wicker picnic hamper with four place settings from Argos for £25 or so, but I can't find it now. Anyway, it was awesome. They do have a (much less stylish but more practical) two-person backpack one for £15:



I have something like this. The zippered bit is a cool bag section for putting the food in. There's a four-person one for £25. They're very handy.

Don't forget something to sit on either. I like those proper picnic blankets you can buy, with a plastic backing incase of any damp in the ground.

As shallow as Myps is, I still have to agree with him on his picnic choices.

Don't forget a crate of ale though.

Some shops will sell you everything you need.

Otherwise, I like potato salad.

Ooh, good call. Also, coleslaw.

If you take a disposable barbecue are you still having a picnic or is it just a barbecue?

Parbecue? Bicnic?

Pikachu

Perfect if it rains...

Dear fellow, the purpose of having a picnic is most assuredly not to develop a 'funny chill' in the rain.

Roofies, gaffer tape, pick axe handle, transit van.

What's the pick axe handle for, man?!

In case the roofies don't work.

My parents have a picnic set similar to that one that I will be borrowing.


She's pretty, but not two hundred quid pretty.

Good suggestions food wise so far.

I hope she reads this.

Is her name Fielding?

How much pretty then?

My last girlfriend ended up reading this after we had been going out for ages, and said that it made her feel really special...


Nah, that's just her gamertag


To be fair, she probably is that pretty, I'm just not that rich.

Can I have her phone number, then

Nope.

Give it to me. I'm 100% Rich.

33%. Unfortunately you're also 33% Gay and 33% Wood.

Sorry, Pinocchio. Giuseppe don't swing that way.

Thank fuck I wasn't drinking then.

Awesome.

falafel? samosas? houmous? Spring rolls?

Get out, hippy.

But yes, some good suggestions.

Club a deer to death, skin it and eat it. Girls love that sort of thing.

Definitely going to be taking houmous.

The mind boggles.

Then you also need a large bag of Kettle Sweet Chilli crisps to dip in it.

That's a good way of ruining two really nice flavours. I just take carrot sticks and babycorn for houmous.

Was thinking the same, and a different flavour of kettle chips.

Not because Sweet Chilli is a bad idea, but because I don't like them.

Flatbread is for homous, fools. Heh - IE7Pro's spell checker wants 'homous' to be 'homos'.

Why are there about twelve different spellings for that word? Houmous, homous, hummus, humus - it's crazy!

Hamas.

And yet they all imply terrorist sympathies.

See poppadum.

Says the man who ate not one but TWO pots of houmous at my flat once. Using kettle chips. And despite us telling him to stop eating all the bloody humous.

HAHA! Found out.

It is a very MOARISH combination.

Then you want to bring olives as well, deffo kalamata. Also a good sarnie is crispy cold bacon, humous, lettuce and cherry tomatoes in a deli roll. Yummers.

Olives are the clagnuts of Beelzebub.