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Surely nobody can eat a pack of pate?

615 replies

pyracantha · 25/01/2023 22:46

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?

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Underminer · 26/01/2023 23:27

Own up, which of you bought the last of the pate from the Coop? The woman on the till said they have sold out all their stock today when I asked her and she said I was the second person to ask! 😑

I’m busting for some Brussels, ‘ankering after some Ardennes and going quackers for some duck a l’orange pate. Crusty bread and butter waiting.

Jourdain11 · 27/01/2023 00:00

I think this just goes to show that we've lost sight of normal eating habits. In the 50s, it would have been totally standard for a family of 4 to stretch a pot of pate over several meals for a fortnight or so. Our behaviours around food have been affected so much by consumerist advertising that we've completely lost any sense of what's healthy and we're SLEEPWALKING INTO AN OBESITY CRISIS.

Honper · 27/01/2023 00:07

Yes. + Destroying Our St NHS

TangledWebOfDeception · 27/01/2023 00:10

Jourdain11 · 27/01/2023 00:00

I think this just goes to show that we've lost sight of normal eating habits. In the 50s, it would have been totally standard for a family of 4 to stretch a pot of pate over several meals for a fortnight or so. Our behaviours around food have been affected so much by consumerist advertising that we've completely lost any sense of what's healthy and we're SLEEPWALKING INTO AN OBESITY CRISIS.

Don’t be ridiculous. We’re not in an OBESITY CRISIS because of pâté.

Patineur · 27/01/2023 00:14

Mamette · 26/01/2023 12:00

You say love pâté but you are clearly spreading it .05mm if it lasts that long between 4 of you.

Eat it properly! Live a little! Be free from fear!

0.05mm? Such extravagance! OP's family would clearly regard 0.005mm as outright gluttony taken to extreme lengths.

RobertaFirmino · 27/01/2023 00:18

You eat salad, pate AND bread for a main meal? Goodness me, don't you ever think about the sheer amount of carbohydrates in that? I'd be positively BLOATED after two bites of a baguette!
You need to take an honest look at your diet. The first thing you need to ask yourself is 'Is this salad massive? Does it contain loads of veggies? If the answer is 'No' then you are not only failing yourself, you are failing your children and the NHS.
Secondly, nobody NEEDS carbs. They are EVIL. My suggestion is to ditch the bread completely and spread your pate on a lettuce leaf instead.

OnTheBoardwalk · 27/01/2023 00:24

@Poppins2016 I’m not a salad person but your salad sounds amazing

I'll get it to go with the pate 've ordered for delivery tomorrow

CatA27 · 27/01/2023 00:36

😂😂😂I'm done!

EasterIsland · 27/01/2023 05:50

It sounds like people are putting it on as a thick layer on French bread rather than a spread?

Well that’s the way the French eat it.

liveforsummer · 27/01/2023 07:10

Jourdain11 · 27/01/2023 00:00

I think this just goes to show that we've lost sight of normal eating habits. In the 50s, it would have been totally standard for a family of 4 to stretch a pot of pate over several meals for a fortnight or so. Our behaviours around food have been affected so much by consumerist advertising that we've completely lost any sense of what's healthy and we're SLEEPWALKING INTO AN OBESITY CRISIS.

You'd eat a pot of pate after a fortnight? I'm not exactly paranoid about use by dates etc but when something says 'eat within 2 days of opening' 2 weeks is definitely a stretch!

RampantIvy · 27/01/2023 07:16

Is this a wind up? Pate is meant to be spread thickly as in @PousseyNotMoira's picture. It isn't marmite.

TenoringBehind · 27/01/2023 07:26

I’d love to know what a typical meal is on non-treat nights.

PatientlyWaiting21 · 27/01/2023 07:27

RobertaFirmino · 27/01/2023 00:18

You eat salad, pate AND bread for a main meal? Goodness me, don't you ever think about the sheer amount of carbohydrates in that? I'd be positively BLOATED after two bites of a baguette!
You need to take an honest look at your diet. The first thing you need to ask yourself is 'Is this salad massive? Does it contain loads of veggies? If the answer is 'No' then you are not only failing yourself, you are failing your children and the NHS.
Secondly, nobody NEEDS carbs. They are EVIL. My suggestion is to ditch the bread completely and spread your pate on a lettuce leaf instead.

Please, do the world a favour and never again offer any (unwanted) “advice” around diets.

BliainNua · 27/01/2023 07:51

PatientlyWaiting21 · 27/01/2023 07:27

Please, do the world a favour and never again offer any (unwanted) “advice” around diets.

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I read this as tongue in cheek, really hope it is!

Pate101 · 27/01/2023 08:13

Is it weird that I dreamt of pate?

TenoringBehind · 27/01/2023 08:14

I assumed tongue in cheek too

RampantIvy · 27/01/2023 08:16

@PatientlyWaiting21 the post is very obviously a pisstake. I'm sorry if you find it triggering.

Suzi888 · 27/01/2023 08:16

Buy a smaller portion then.

Suzi888 · 27/01/2023 08:19

Oh 🤣the comments. It’s worrying some of you walk among us, how do younger through life. You probably look normal too but ….nah🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

GlassBunion · 27/01/2023 08:49

Cracking thread...thank you MNetters!

Catnary · 27/01/2023 08:50

Crackers you say? Yes please!

knittingaddict · 27/01/2023 08:53

Sweep3 · 26/01/2023 21:56

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

I'm late 50s and love pate with toast or crusty bread.

It is a bit retro I suppose, but also a classic. It's been on menus in good restaurants for all the decades I've been eating out and still is, so I'm not quite sure what mil means.

Nolongera · 27/01/2023 09:02

TenoringBehind · 27/01/2023 07:26

I’d love to know what a typical meal is on non-treat nights.

Glass of water with a slice of bread for dipping?

Water lasts a month.

OttersMayHaveShiftedInTransit · 27/01/2023 09:08

Can we get the police to do a welfare check on the OP? I'm worried that she has fallen victim to the scary pate.
I assume her address is Cold Comfort Farm.

marylou25 · 27/01/2023 09:18

Freeze half when you buy it.

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