To expect coronation chicken sandwiches at the jubilee party?

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So DH and I are on the Jubilee party committee for our street. We are actually in charge of the bunting, balloons, decorations and other accoutrements.

Anyway, DH said at the meeting today that 'It would be inappropriate for there not to be coronation chicken sandwiches' at the party. This was met with uproar by the other committee members (a retired primary school teacher, two retired nurses, three SAHM, and 23-year old male who hopes to be a local councillor at the next elections for some reason). They said that coronation chicken was a colonial throwback, and therefore will not be served at the party.

DH and I said that we liked coronation chicken and so does HMTQ. We then suggested that maybe we shouldn't get union jack bunting as it might also be perceived as colonial?

Anyway, what do you think we should do? DH and I REALLY like coronation chicken. Should we resign?

I think this thread is a parody.

Isn't it just a glorified trifle?

Coronation chicken is great as is Victoria sponge, BBQ's are great. I like the Jubilee pudding but I quite like the idea of a make your own trifle in jars so you could have jelly, cake, compotes, custards or cheat and use blancmange, fruits, ice cream, chocolate shards and serve to taste.

We are actually in charge of the bunting, balloons, decorations and other accoutrements

I think the power has gone to your head.

Our street party has a WhatsApp which consists of “who can borrow speakers?” and the bunting is the same stuff we use every year. We just ask everyone to bring something to share.

Personally I think Coronation Chicken is revolting, but if you want it there, cook it yourself.

Nothing glorified about that abomination.

It doesn't have raisins in? Well, in that case, carry on and enjoy your sandwiches 😂

I think if you are actually in charge of the accoutrements, you've hit the jackpot anyway.
If OP is in charge of the acoutrements (does that include tiaras?), then somebody else has officially been appointed as "actually in charge of sandwiches".
You'll have to make do with flags or bunting featuring images of coronation chicken sandwiches.

Or resign, nip to M&S for coronation chicken sandwiches and enjoy them in your back garden.

It looked okay to me, but any pudding is going to be a "glorified" something-or-other.

I thought it wasn't raisins but dried apricots in Coronation Chicken.
Which I like very much.

I agree with PPs that this thread sounds like a joke, whether it is or not, which is probably why it's not as amusing as it should be. All a bit self-conscious.

The whole royal family are colonial!
Coronation chicken is minging.
YABVU imo.

Where is Jackie Weaver?

Coronation Tofu?

I am firmly in the Coronation Chicken camp. Firmly.

If people are celebrating the Queen's Jubilee with a street party, then they cannot come out against Coronation chicken. It is part and parcel of the occasion, totally appropriate as well as being delicious.

Ocado have it as a sandwich filler (smaller chunks, thicker sauce, more spreadable) and also as a dish (larger chunks of chicken for spearing, perhaps with a Boudicca style trident- in a thinner sauce). The latter would be welcomed by low-carb monarchists.

Just make the sandwiches and take them, OP.

We are out of the country for the first time in years for the jubilee and I'm not sorry to miss the local street party.

I love Coronation Chicken, but I leave the raisins (or is it apricots having read previous post) out, wondering if that’s now just chicken curry Mayo sandwich lol

im def doing a proper Victoria Sandwich Sponge, and I’m hoping someone else will make the trifle as I’d like to try it but can’t be bothered to make it. No committee here, we are all buying everything we want, definitely agree that queens face shouldn’t be on your plate, etc! I’ve yards of Union Jack bunting and a flag and a cake plate. I want a plastic seaside Union Jack hat but DH says that’s tatty ☹️

hope you all have a brilliant weekend

YABU to serve it as a sandwich filling, it's a dish in its own right. And technically (puts food geek hat on) 'Chicken Elizabeth' was served after the coronation. It only became 'coronation chicken' later...

Ah shit, you are quite correct.
Partys off folks, gotta wait for an actual coronation which going by queenies age wont be all that long.

LadyMonicaBaddingham

YABU to serve it as a sandwich filling, it's a dish in its own right.

Quite. And you should know, LadyM; didn't you serve it at least twice in "Rivals"? Before you discovered the sainted Taggie, naturally

Heathen.

Tofu is fucking awful probably not the best thing to coat in a curry mayo and make a sandwich out of.

@queenmeadhbh I'm also in Belfast and can only imagine the managers face with a load of union jack bunting arriving at the Kennedy centre 🤣 I'm from Derry where this definitely was not a thing but live in a mainly Protestant (but not flaggy) area now though so intrigued to find out if we are going to be decked out in bunting soon!

Thank fuck I live in Scotland. You'd get battered in my street if you tried to set up a Jubilee street party. 😂

My sentiments exactly!

I recently had the misfortune to have a coronation chickpea wrap on an LNER train and it was quite the thing (and not in a good way). No idea if it’s less colonial but at least LNER have got the vegans and veggies covered

@SomeFuckingWizardry well if someone tries to organise a committee for a royal street party please come back and tell us if there will be coronation chicken!

wonder if there’s a “six temporarily occupied counties chicken” 🤔

English people are so funny.

Oh my god ... is this for real? This is a pisstake, right?