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

YANBU. I do love a sausage roll and usually pile up my plate with at parties, but only because there's never anything else I like! I'm with Merguez, cold samosas and veg rolls just taste so wrong. I love veg rolls, but when they're lovely and crispy and hot. Not soggy, cold and greasy.

I'm doing a Christmas Eve buffet this year from scratch. I will add though that it's my first time doing a buffet so how stressed I end up will dictate whether next years buffet will be homemade or frozen. Or if I end up buying a takeaway instead.

OMG we have no Iceland near us I never go but I am amused by the bakewell cones

YABU

I like a bit of brown food.

I think we will have brown freezer-to-oven food for Christmas Eve dinner.

I think I've worked out why I'm at home tonight ;)

i think some of it looks like you need a large glass of Gavison to drink with it.

Gaviscon even.

YANBU: it is crap of the highest order, stuffed full of chemicals and E numbers. Most of it should be reclassed as class B narcotics .

Plus Iceland, for me, is the absolute zenith of ghastly crapness.....curry pizza FGS.

I'm doing a Christmas Eve buffet this year from scratch

I bow down to you. I make a mean variety of quiches/flans from scratch but I would be so stressed doing the whole thing.

YANBU: it is crap of the highest order, stuffed full of chemicals and E numbers. Most of it should be reclassed as class B narcotics

A-hem now I know, it's an addiction. The shame.

It reminds me of too many office buffets...shop bought canapés are rank.

I shudder at the thought of Iceland party 'food'

oh i hovered over cream cheese stuffed jalepenos in asda yesterday yum yum.

So I want to know what you make that you consider holier than M&S? and do you sing the surf song in a frilly apron while baking said goods

smurfs - Im bloody sick of no spell checker on here I really am.

YANBU

I have just eaten a 'party' mini-cheesecake (purchased by DH) that tasted of turkey. Had to spit it out. Dog happily wolfed down the remainder.

I confes to nipping into Iceland yesterday and picking up a box of those mini cakes, 75 for £5, because I had sampled them at a friend's and they were utterly delicious. Also some samosas and bhagees which I promise not to serve cold and greasy. They also had some cherry chocolate cups, half price, £1 already consumed and very good, finally some small size frozen jus-rol vol -au-vent cases, because our Waitrose and Tesco only do large sizes. Last year for a committee buffet do, we had Waitrose stuff, and I was not too impressed. Brownly mushish.

I know how to spell confess.

This thread is giving me heartburn.

YABU. I love a bit of beige buffet.

I don't like most of it either. I have tried lots- mostly M and S and Waitrose. The only thing I like are the sausage rolls

I'd rather do lots of cheese, nice bread, little sausages roasted in pickle(yummy), some pork pie, chicken wings and maybe some spring rolls, grapes, little tomatoes and of course posh crisps and dips.
Much tastier and cheaper than 'party food'

Are you sure you your DH had not got som eof that funny Heston Bloomingpants food thats all fecked up? darktherapy (intriuging NN btw)

Isaw on telly that a lot of E numbers can occur naturally and that too much fuss is made of them as they not all bad. So there.

I burnt my mouth on Waitrose's finest canapés last year! I'm going for lukewarm party food this year

I must admit I do love a bit of party food, small parties in this house though as only me and DH will eat the stuff!

I'm not a fan of Iceland but it all looks quite tempting to me

Yabvu it's not something you eat everyday, it's usually a one off at a party. Some of it is rather nice, you are being very judgy

I hate the fact it's all the same colour...

Reflects current obsession with choice.
I'd rather one or two nice home made things than ten different sorts of indiscriminate brown suff.

The new tesco finest range are really really good, they taste proper handmade. The duck selection is particularly good.