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?

A picnic plate if it's for kids
A pick if it's for grown ups- usually served with wine

A plated buffet.
We have it often to use up left overs.Its my favourite meal , ( apart from a curry).

A picky tea or picky lunch, depending what time it's eaten.

Homemade lunch able

Cold collation here!

A platter. I mainly used this phrase for my dc when they were little, just to make a plate of no effort food sound fancy!

If it's for the kids- then it's called a buffet. If it's for adults then it's Meats and Cheeses (although it usually also involves olives, hummus, bread etc) The term Picky tea absolutely turns my stomach- reminds me of nose pickings 🤢

A plate of sadness

To me that’s an almost- meal that doesn’t quite hit the spot....

So I never have it

pikachubaby

Bits & Bobs.

Another for picky tea.

Yes, I do know that it's not actually pronounced cruddites, or can-apes
🤪

Catch what you can

I don't give it a name. I'd just use the names of the things on the plate.
Picky tea makes me shudder.

Picky tea!

Buffet food

Tasting plate. Kids are all teens now and still love a tasting plate meal!

That or nothing tea

A picky tea. There's some bloody snobs on here.

What's 'snobbish' about disliking the phrase 'picky tea' because it sounds vaguely gross, like something someone fished out of their bellybutton?

It's hardly a what/pardon/loo/toilet/sitting room/lounge-type shibboleth.

We call it a bit of this and a bit of that, or a munchy plate.

@TheQueensCousin A Smores Board or a Smorgasbord?

Man, I could so demolish a smore right now.

I’d just give it the name of whatever meal usually happens at the time I’m eating it.

Can't help myself, a smorgasbord is smorgees 🤣 or cuttings etc. on a table, bord means table. So you fancy a smörgås or a piece of Smørrebrød depending on country. I know you don't distinguish, but now you know.

Picnic - or 'nicnic' because that's what DS called it when he was little.

Either that or 'bits' - 'I'm not that hungry, I'll just get myself some bits later'.