Surely nobody can eat a pack of pate?

[pyracantha]

There are 4 of us. Once a week we have lots of different types of salads with French bread and pate as our evening meal. We love pate. It gets eaten at breakfast on toast in the days afterwards.

We never managed to eat it all before we’re scared of it. Why don’t they sell it in usable portions?

In the name of scientific research I had pate and baggette for tea (1/2 a small tiger bread one). I had a 90g pack of "chicken liver partait with white wine". It had an adorable little reseal sticker so I took this as a sign not to be a complete greedy guts. I ended up eating a little under 3/4 of it, so ~65 grams. Disclaimer - I do like my food and it shows!

😂😂😂

I forgot to post how much of my mushroom pate I ate... DP says around half the pack so 50g with some crackers, but thats a kind of starter (forgot lunch, too busy tax returning frantically and dinners going to be late!).

@WiddlinDiddlin that is what I call dedication to the cause.

@Whycanineverever pigs in blankets pate???? I. Did. Not. Know. This. Roll on Christmas.

I can’t be the only one who is gutted the OP didn’t come back to expand on their pate-y ways and how it’s a once a week ‘centre piece’ meal that also does then for toast but they can never finish a pack. It’s an enormous conundrum @pyracantha !

Not even when you're having it as a centerpiece treat? And on toast for breakfast for days afterwards??

I can only assume OP and her family threw caution to the wind, opened the pate for dinner tonight, and are now slumped on the sofa in a Pate Coma after having eaten a quarter of a tub each.

We need a Mumsnet cookbook, consisting of massive salads, 101 ways with a small chicken, and the feeding of the 5000 with pate… and scary leftovers!

It’s threads like this that make the internet worthwhile.

Have I missed a pic of the Coop pate?

1. Remove from container and put in one that seals properly
2. Buy lots and freeze in smaller quantities

@Mirabai Here it is!

Oh it didnt show the pic! @Mirabai

🤣🤣🤣 amazing!

😂😂😂

Perfect. The only thing missing from the thread.

I think the OP has scurried away lest anyone find out that she scrapes clotted cream onto her scones thinner than you'd use marmite.. and other food crimes. This cannot be the only aberration, surely... this is just the tip of the iceberg!

I reckon we're being planked by some MNers in a drinking game:
"Let's start a thread each on the most mundane shit and the winner with the most replies in a 48 hour window wins this bottle of gin. Pick a word out the hat"

Somewhere lingering on these boards will be a thread on oil heaters only getting 5 replies and the OP of it fuming that Pate Jane got a 1000 posts in her opening hour.

Happy gin drinking Jane!

Out of interest how old are you all?
had pate as a starter when in laws came round for a meal and MIL commented that it was a strange “older person” type food to have.
me and DH are 38 and 41

Well, the OP MIGHT be back with a soupçon more pate strangeness, but they're more likely quietly planning the next meat-related oddity thread for our general delectation

#steakburgers #M&Smanager

The use of quotation marks, exclamation marks, bold, italics, underlining, capitalisation and photo exhibits in this comment really highlights the collective outrage on this thread 😂

I think that this Paté is going to enter the halls of fame on mumsnet 😂

we have the mythical mumsnet chicken, that can feed a family of four for a week, we have the massive salad, that cannot be finished, and now we have the coop pate centrepiece, feeding a family of four as a treat meal that lasts the week, and where eating it normally is a tricky thing.

I salute the op. 🌟🌟🌟

On one hand, it was rather masochistic to read a 14 page thread about pate whilst being 33 weeks pregnant - but, on the other, it had brought much cheer to gloomy pate- and wine-free evening.

I can!

Is being scared of pate the new screaming in the Sistine chapel?

cheers to Jane!

Dried fruits are never welcome in a savoury dish.

I disagree, apricot (dried) and ginger chutney goes really well on a duck liver parfait that had been set with a chilli and orange (very thin) jelly.

Turkey goes well with cranberry, apple with pork, duck with orange/apricot.... list is endless.

I agree with the one boozy ingredient though.

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