What do you call this plate of food...?

[Lostinbooksandcoffee]

When you have a selection of various foodstuffs? For example:
Crackers, cheese, ham, boiled egg, hummus, crudités, pork pie or sausage roll, grapes.

Basically, a little bit of everything. I've seen it called a 'picky plate' or 'snack plate' on FB etc. I've also seen it mentioned on MN how they detest the saying.

So, I'm just curious what you call this type of meal?

Nibbles 😋

'Cheese and crackers', regardless of how much other stuff is involved besides the actual cheese and crackers.

Whoever said Abendbrot, I think of that as bread with whatever toppings you have to hand (normally just cheese in my house). So I wouldn't have e.g. celery or carrot sticks as part of it. There are probably regional variations though.

Ds calls it, "not a proper dinner" and it's his favourite thing to have. He requests it nearly every day. "Mummy, can we have not a proper dinner today?"

Of it was laid out for all to pick at in the UK you would call it a buffet.

If it is on a plate for 1 person I would call it a picky plate or snacky plate

My MIL calls this 'resurrection tea'.
I call it 'emptying the fridge onto the table'
We had this yesterday with MIL & FIL actually.
The kids were absolutely delighted, it's their favourite thing ever!

Deli Lunch/Dinner

Picky tea, cos you pick what you want from the table

My dcs call it monkey tea. No idea why.

Picky tea.

It's called a Random Assortment of Nonsense. My DH coined that turn of phrase when I pulled a bunch of unrelated things out of the fridge and put them on a plate.

Or, occasionally, it's called "Oh, whatever" because we don't feel like cooking or ordering in. What shall we eat? Oh, whatever.

My first thought was a buffet but snacky plate sounds better.

Bits!

Smorgasboard. A loathsome word but is what you describe. We have 'Smorgasboard Saturday' (we have names for meals on every day of the week ).

@AintNobodyHereButUsKittens

Cold collation or fridge roulette depending on my mood.

I like to use the former, said in a faux posh accent for maximum effect. But I am definitely also stealing the latter now - brilliant!

@justjessie

Canapés. - pronounced can-apes.

Or

Crudités - pronounced cruddites (like luddites)

We do the can-apes. Or cheese and pate (patttttt- said in Frank Butcher’s voice) Are we married @justjessie?

A platter

Grazing plate

Buffet

Leftovers? Smorgasbord? Fridge raid? Bit of everything?

Trolley Tea - a relic from my DH's gran who would lay all the ingredients out on her hostess trolley.

Bits n Pieces!
And it's my favourite kind of meal! Favourited by my mum and nana too.

In our house, you can have a bits n pieces breakfast, lunch or dinner.

Picnic tea

@SiaPR not married but I'm willing to be! Pate shall know be known as Pattttt in this house forever more thank you!

Knew I'd see 'picky tea' on this thread. Loathe that. And I loathe the snobbery about the term.

Odd that Picky Tea'ers don't feel the need to denigrate anyone elses terminology, no matter how twee, effete etc. It's just a family thing, after all!