Favourite Picnic Items As A Child

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Just had cold sausages for breakfast & it reminded me how I used to love them on picnics.
DM’s legendary mashed egg & tomato sandwiches
Cold chicken drumsticks
Mini porkpies
Having different drinks to usual like proper lemonade or cloudy applejuice
I don’t like coffee but when I smell it in a thermos, it reminds me of DF having it in the car during rainy day picnics. For some reason, it made me think of ham sandwiches!
On one boat /isolated beach trip, our host produced a huge bowl of very recently caught shrimps. So good!

Grated cheese and jam sandwiches. Never usually ate them, but on a picnic, they were delicious!

Boiled egg and salad cream sandwiches,party rings,quiche, cocktail sausages 😄 😋

@myfavouritemutant grated cheese and jam together?

Suppose it's a bit like chutney! 😅

Forgotten DM used to grill any leftover sandwiches ( if the fillings were suitable) for tea & I loved that too

Absolutely love cheese & jam sarnies!

I have stopped buying party rings because I can easily demolish a whole packet in one sitting!

scotch eggs
putting crisps in with the sandwiches/ rolls
slices of watermelon
hard boiled eggs that you had to shell
squash in a big flask with a tap on it to decant

One boy on my son’s d of e practice walk had about 8 packs of party rings, demolishing them as he went. He was the same at birthday parties when they were 7 😁

A late night picnic at my Aunty’s with cheese sandwiches & the sweetest most delicious cherry tomatoes I have ever eaten, straight from the greenhouse.

Sandwiches made with crusty thickly buttered white bread & crisps

Cold chicken drumsticks
Real Cornish pasties when we were on holiday there (or Devon) - tasted so much nicer than the ones at home
Nectarines or peaches (didn't have those a lot ordinarily)

Homemade flapjacks

Cheese and cucumber sandwiches might have one for lunch today. 😋

It's not a picnic without a cocktail sausage for me!!

Anyone else?

Pork pie! We only had it for picnics and Christmas

Oh I came on to say cold sausages! DM used to pack them in the empty boxes from a cereal variety pack (which we only had on holiday) so doubly special.

My mum would make corned beef and onion sandwiches, boiled eggs, chicken drumsticks and quiche. We would also have cucumber, celery and carrot sticks with tomatoes. She would usually make a cake and we had bananas and melon slices.

Oh and pork pies and she would cut the food with a pocket knife with a pearl handle.

We never had sandwiches - I'm not sure if it was cost (didn't have much money), or needing to carry everything (didn't have a car).
My mum used to butter a whole pack of ryvita and then sandwich them. We had a cold sausage, a hardboiled egg and a couple of slices of cheese. Sometimes a whole tomato to eat like an apple. An apple and a slab of homemade fruit cake. Occasionally we would have a Penguin-type chocolate biscuits or a packet of crisps but they were real treats. Always a large bottle of weak orange squash.

And a damp flannel in a plastic bag for wiping hands before and after eating 😁