Picky bits?

[HelenInHeels]

I hate this! I saw it on a M&S advert and it gave me the willies. I don't know why it sounds gross but it puts me off food as does 'dirty' fries. Yeuch!

It's not revolting or intolerable ffs. Some people on here need to get a bloody life.

We call it a picnic dinner.

To me 'gave me the willies' is far worse op, each time their own!

@bakewellbride same, I hate that expression!

We call it a Snack Supper.

I apologise.

People are easily upset arent they!

Im quite pleased Im going about my day shocking people to the core.

Oh by the way, is there any more pork pie?

Love a picky bits meal. And my DS will eat just about anything if it's under the umbrella of picky bits.

Hope that makes people's teeth itch.

Presumably that's why it's called 'picky bits', because you get to pick(choose) what you want.

Party food surely, although I don’t mind it called picky bits

@Wrongsideofpennines Yes 'picking' from a selection of different food.

The Ocado radio advert last year with that man saying ‘picky bits’ gave me the rage.
We call it a buffet.

As a dyslexic I find these topics hilarious. I can't get caught up on words as I'm barely literate. I'd love to get the rage on the nuances of of the English language.

If I understand what it means, that's good enough for me.

It’s bits and bobs for us! No idea if it’s weird or not but I definitely prefer it to picky bits!!

It’s very twee. Relatively new I would say, have only heard it in the last ten years. The equivalent from days of yore is “cold cuts”.

@ShineyMoonChild both mean the same thing. It's literally using two words with the same meaning.

Although buffet in my opinion is better because its the original meaning. Buffet is the name for a sort of sideboard where food would get placed.

Well yes, we don't call it that but it is what we often do for weekend lunch, everyone gets out what they want from the fridge whether that is cold meat, cheese, pickles, salad, whatever, puts it on a plate with bread or crackers and takes it to the table to eat. Sometimes together more often not as we all tend to be in and out at different times.

I'm going to have a picky tea tonight. Picky,picky picky!

I didn't hear the term picky bits until recently, I call it either snacks tea or frozen crap if it's those frozen things you bake and put out at Christmas

Yep

We used to call it an 'everything tea' growing up and I still say it now to my children.

I know this is MN but you don't have to turn every thread into a class war.

But what class does it signify? I’ve only heard it on MN so I have no idea which class would say it.

Hate the term and the concept. It’s basically just unloading the fridge of leftovers and opened stuff, and plonking them on the table for you to do the hard work.
Cheese, hummus, bread, celery? No thank you.

We call it scraps

After a teacher asked what we had over Christmas, I couldn't remember the name for buffet and said confidently "scraps. And my dad spent all of Christmas in the pub"

Dad had to explain it was M&S buffet food and yes he was in the pub because we lived there and he was.. running it

Presumably not MN's original membership! (What's the difference between Mums Net and Net Mums? A postgraduate qualification and £30k a year)