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?

We say choosing lunch/tea as that's what the dc called it when they were small.

Depends on the context. A picnic if you've packed it to take on a picnic (that's a stupid thing to say but you get what I mean!).

At home when I was a kid it might be tea on a day when a big meal was cooked earlier in the day, like Boxing Day. Not sure what we used to call it, if anything, though.

Grazing platter

Picky bits.

Picky tea or party tea. If it’s more of a buffet rather than random bits we call it ‘cold cuts’

Buffet in our house.

Charcuterie

Pick and Mix stuff!

Pick and mix tea

Picky Lunch or Picky Dinner it depends on timing!

@justjessie

Canapés. - pronounced can-apes.

Or

Crudités - pronounced cruddites (like luddites)

Absolutely brilliant! Best answer.

Lunch. For lunch in our house this is the default option, anything else would be called by its actual name, eg soup, jacket potato, toasted sandwich. If we were going to have it in the evening it would be tea as opposed to dinner.

Charcuterie or tapas plate.

Cold collation or fridge roulette depending on my mood.

Platter, picnic or party food 😂

Picnic tea

Ploughman’s lunch :) I miss my granny making me these when I was wee

On one plate for each individual snacky food if on a table then buffet

I'm in Germany where this is called a "Vesper" (prounounced "fesh-per"), so we call it that! No idea what I'd refer to it in English!

Painless Lunch.

Just had a plate of hummus, freshly grated carrot with newmans dressing, cucumber, cherry tomatoes, baby peppers, sliced fennel, stuffed vine leaves and feta cheese pastries (last two from M and S, thank you M and S).

Definitely "cold collation".

I don't have a name for that sort of plate. If forced, I'd describe it as 'some bits from the fridge' as in 'I'm just going to get some bits from the fridge for tea'.

^Canapés. - pronounced can-apes.

Or

Crudités - pronounced cruddites (like luddites)^

I assume that you are being sarcastic/ironic? Because otherwise, that's rather bizarre.

Lunch.

@justjessie

Canapés. - pronounced can-apes.

Or

Crudités - pronounced cruddites (like luddites)

Or horses doovers.

Bit of cold