To think most premade 'party food' is completely rank

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It mostly doesn't taste of wee bites of nice, normal food but instead gelatinous mush with indistinct flavours

where have you been getting yours from?

Depends where you buy things

The stuff I buy is great!

Spring rolls. Nom.

well it sounds like the stuff you buy is - 'gelatanous mush' where DO you shop?

I love party food and my is never mushy

Yes.
I was once so ill after eating pre-prepared party food, I had to vomit up my sleeve in a stable and rush home.
Bleurggh.

I don't buy it but even at poshish buffets where it's all M and S and Waitrose stuff it's mushy

And brown with no freshness to it

Well stop shopping at Iceland then

I've never even been in an Iceland

Unless you mean the country

joke, can't afford to go there

I love iceland.i said it.

It's cheap cheerful and fun, that's the point. You shove trays of it in the oven, you crack open a wine box and chat to newly arrived visitors on Christmas Eve, without any stress. You can always have salad if your feeling good.

Maybe it's more to do with the preparation or serving. I do a mixture of homemade and bought and have never had any problems but then it is all served straight from the oven, not left hanging around, etc.

YANBU if you are referring to frozen party food (aka the curse of the brown buffet)

Waitrose and M&S is just about tolerable, Iceland can't even make there's look good in their adverts if looks boaksome on telly, with all the trickery they can use, I can't imagine what it tastes like

I find that usually there is an over-reliance on fried stuff on those party canapés, which tends to be a bit indigestible.

And at ds's school they serve it cold, which is double yuk. Cold samosas and spring rolls, no thanks.

YANBU. In the ads it looks lovely. Once it's out of the oven it's greasy and brown and yuk.

I am going to plunder the desserts from Iceland instead this year.....

I love home cooking, but every Christmas Eve buy party food.
I fully intend to buy the silliest stuff from Iceland this year, just for the laugh of it.

Yabu.
I love Icelands party food.
M&S party food is over priced and over packaged.
We're having an Iceland buffet on Christmas Eve.
Some people are just snobs.

You can't beat a prawn ring

YABU because:

Sainsburys Duck Spring Rolls.

Holy.fucking.shitballs Batman!

Oh no it's half price.

The Iceland bits are absolutely shite. I'm no snob, I'll usually eat any old thing but I do find them very unpalatable.

YABabitU

Love some duck spring rolls and pigs in blankets

Yeah, it's rank mush.

I shall use that phrase at the next party I go to :)

Having visions of Thisisaghost at a party, poking the food and muttering about 'rank mush'

Tesco finest range - some of those are lush. While M&S are expensive they do some nice things.

Tesco do these chicken a chorizo ball things they are super-yum (freezer section)

I consider myself somewhat of a 'small food' connoisseur