To think most premade 'party food' is completely rank

[LaurieFairyCake]

It mostly doesn't taste of wee bites of nice, normal food but instead gelatinous mush with indistinct flavours

[RedLondonBus]

where have you been getting yours from?

[BohemianGirl]

Depends where you buy things

[Rosencrantz]

The stuff I buy is great!

Spring rolls. Nom.

[gordyslovesheep]

well it sounds like the stuff you buy is - 'gelatanous mush' where DO you shop?

I love party food and my is never mushy

[moondog]

Yes.
I was once so ill after eating pre-prepared party food, I had to vomit up my sleeve in a stable and rush home.
Bleurggh.

[LaurieFairyCake]

I don't buy it but even at poshish buffets where it's all M and S and Waitrose stuff it's mushy

And brown with no freshness to it

[TheChimpParadox]

Well stop shopping at Iceland then

[LaurieFairyCake]

I've never even been in an Iceland

Unless you mean the country

joke, can't afford to go there

[harriet247]

I love iceland.i said it.

[NoComet]

It's cheap cheerful and fun, that's the point. You shove trays of it in the oven, you crack open a wine box and chat to newly arrived visitors on Christmas Eve, without any stress. You can always have salad if your feeling good.

[timidviper]

Maybe it's more to do with the preparation or serving. I do a mixture of homemade and bought and have never had any problems but then it is all served straight from the oven, not left hanging around, etc.

[herladyship]

YANBU if you are referring to frozen party food (aka the curse of the brown buffet)

[YoungBritishPissArtist]

Waitrose and M&S is just about tolerable, Iceland can't even make there's look good in their adverts if looks boaksome on telly, with all the trickery they can use, I can't imagine what it tastes like

[Merguez]

I find that usually there is an over-reliance on fried stuff on those party canapés, which tends to be a bit indigestible.

And at ds's school they serve it cold, which is double yuk. Cold samosas and spring rolls, no thanks.

[Sparklingbrook]

YANBU. In the ads it looks lovely. Once it's out of the oven it's greasy and brown and yuk.

I am going to plunder the desserts from Iceland instead this year.....

[NettoSuperstar]

I love home cooking, but every Christmas Eve buy party food.
I fully intend to buy the silliest stuff from Iceland this year, just for the laugh of it.

[SkinnybitchWannabe]

Yabu.
I love Icelands party food.
M&S party food is over priced and over packaged.
We're having an Iceland buffet on Christmas Eve.
Some people are just snobs.

[mrspremise]

You can't beat a prawn ring

[Heartbrokenmum73]

YABU because:

Sainsburys Duck Spring Rolls.

Holy.fucking.shitballs Batman!

[Sparklingbrook]

Oh no it's half price.

[candycoatedwaterdrops]

The Iceland bits are absolutely shite. I'm no snob, I'll usually eat any old thing but I do find them very unpalatable.

[Cleorapter]

YABabitU

Love some duck spring rolls and pigs in blankets

[Thisisaghostlyeuphemism]

Yeah, it's rank mush.

I shall use that phrase at the next party I go to :)

[Heartbrokenmum73]

Having visions of Thisisaghost at a party, poking the food and muttering about 'rank mush'

[Ev1lEdna]

Tesco finest range - some of those are lush. While M&S are expensive they do some nice things.

Tesco do these chicken a chorizo ball things they are super-yum (freezer section)

I consider myself somewhat of a 'small food' connoisseur