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?

Do you have a difficult relationship with food in general?

I wondered that as well.

People giving it to their kids spread thickly, takes the joy out of for you?

Either you have major food issues or you are on the wind up.

On the upside, sales of pate have gone up this week. And there’s been a ton Of MNers spreading it thickly this week.

I think OP is now definitely taking the P(sittacosis).

I’ll hive my kids tandsmør if that’s what you want to call a love of enjoyment and the finer things in life. Though I suspect in your mind you actually were meaning gluttony and excess in a pejorative way when you said tandsmør. I personally think there’s a happy medium between excess and sanctimonious parsimony. Somewhere between cromwellian abstinence and bacchanalian debauchery where happiness lies.

I’m not convinced by any of this but if it’s real, poor dc with a parent who controls food so rigidly.

What's the betting that the children will go off the rails with food when they leave home?

‘lack of oval plates’ = shark jumped

(But it’s been a brilliant thread OP, well done!)

Plebs

parlourb bless you

Ok so I’m super confused. This says serves 4 but I eat half of it earlier in 10 mins. It says do not freeze MN tells me to do this

it has Cognac if I eat it will I be over the MN alcohol limit for the next week after eating it?

it says discolouration is nothing to be scared of but eat within two days so as not be scared. What happened to just enjoying some pate!!!

Morrisons sells it in all kinds of sizes, even very small at the deli section. Good few types

What a bizarre update. How could people telling you that you’re not eating it the way it’s ‘supposed’ to be eaten take away your enjoyment of Saturday pate night?!

If you want to eat salad accompanied by bread that pate briefly breathed next to, live your best life. But you might want to reconsider because living your best life involves lashings of pate.

That’s the oddest update I’ve ever read.

You don’t get budgie flu or norovirus from pate. Why would how others eat it take the joy out of how you do it. And what has oval plates got to do with it.

i Honestly thought the op was having a laugh with this thread, but I think clearly not.

I also still don't know what's going on.

But on the back of this thread I bought pate (well 'Deluxe chicken parfait' but it looks like pate) and a rustic baguette thing from Lidl yesterday and I ate a good chunk of the bread on the way home and had half of one of the two sections of pate on more of the bread with crisps and gin for dinner, so thanks OP for the inspiration.

I've just remembered I need to put pate on my shopping list 😋

i only eat vegetarian pate
and that also came in a huge tube - what a waste

Wait? You think you catch norovirus from pate?

Was thinking you can't get bird disease from pate lol

Very educational thread. Fascinated by someone seeing pate as a spread (that their traditions say should be more of a scrape) rather than as a form of cold meat. I'll be having my lunchtime pate on toast (like putting meat in a sandwich), but I have in the past had it as the meat element of a salad meal and eaten it with a knife and fork.

Why do you need oval plates to take pictures of scampi and chips

I have done a quick search on the OP and every food thread has pate on it - not too much.

I think she has an unhealthy relationship with pate.

but I have in the past had it as the meat element of a salad meal and eaten it with a knife and fork.

Yes, @Dean I’ve eaten it that way/ had it served that way in France. The thought of eating pate as just a thin scrape is ridiculous and not very nice tasting.

oooo this is making me hungry.

Howling this thread just never stops giving. A super sanctimonious reply from OP and then this ^ mic drop reply, hahaha.

I know people asked for pictures but we’ve done the complete 180 and gone for scampi with chips and peas instead, so without oval plates I can’t.

Why do you have to have oval plates to take a photo?

I'm a bit worried that your family have been looking forward to their paté all week and have now been deprived of it. Or are you planning on breaking out and having it this evening instead/