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Surely nobody can eat a pack of pate?

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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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Daniella36 · 25/01/2023 23:41

I am on Mumsnet! I see your chunk of pate and I will eat a baguette with it. Plus crisps. Plus chocolate. Plus some car sweets for the way home. Oh yeah!

RDAnna · 25/01/2023 23:42

I really need to know the exact one you're buying OP so I can answer your question.

ThinWomansBrain · 25/01/2023 23:44

You're not spreading it thickly enough, OP.
spread it? Don't you jusr slice it?

Surely nobody can eat a pack of pate?
Not if my cat finds it first

antipodeancanary · 25/01/2023 23:48

Pate should be at least a third of an inch thick

RDAnna · 25/01/2023 23:48

You know some weeks I think half the threads on Mumsnet are a testing ground for some kind of open university course on the collective consciousness of internet tribes.

"Your task for the week, my dear students, is to study an internet forum, and write a post in the style of the user that must go viral.

NoSquirrels · 25/01/2023 23:50

pyracantha · 25/01/2023 23:20

We buy the white tubs from the coop - it’s not from a pricey deli or anything.

We all like it very much as a treat. It sounds like people are putting it on as a thick layer on French bread rather than a spread? I’d find that tricky.

We have it on toast in the days afterwards

Once it’s gone grey in the fridge with a still pink middle I’m scared of it.

This one?

And it’s a treat which you ALL love - all 4 of you -but you can’t finish it over 2 days?

YAindeedBVU

Surely nobody can eat a pack of pate?
marvellousmaple · 25/01/2023 23:57

Laughing very hard at the "a sausage or a fishfinger" type posts

PotKettel · 25/01/2023 23:57

This thread has made me cry with laughter, almost woke my toddler up!

OP, I was brought up to eat pate like you. A very shallow scraping across sandwich bread. We ate it with thinly sliced cucumbers. But you know what, there was never ANY left for breakfast. Which begs the question, was my mum saving it for her lunches, to spread inch-thick on her Ryvitas? That might explain why she didn’t lose weight. Sadly as my mum passed away, here is another puzzle I will never have an answer to.

OnTheBoardwalk · 25/01/2023 23:59

Yes slices of pate on top of slices of pate

LifesNotEnidBlyton · 26/01/2023 00:00

Now wonder you see it as a treat. It'd take six months before you had had a portions worth.

OfDumplings · 26/01/2023 00:01

Have you got a cat ? My cat will fight for pate.

IWineAndDontDine · 26/01/2023 00:02

SophieLaGeroff · 25/01/2023 22:50

This.

You're not spreading it thickly enough, OP.

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Agreed.

You shouldn't be spreading it like butter. It's needs to match the height of the bread...

pattihews · 26/01/2023 00:06

Are you seriously telling us that four people can't finish a 175g pack of pate?

Have you never eaten pate in a restaurant? You get an 80-100g serving each as a starter. It's for slathering on bread in a thick layer, not for spreading thinly.

I can't believe that the gastronomic highlight of your week is 15g of pate each and some salad. Are you all calorie counting?

pattihews · 26/01/2023 00:07

Is it this that you buy?

shop.coop.co.uk/product/c7a2f38c-c5b0-45e4-a292-c1d8a96769b1

Rebel2023 · 26/01/2023 00:09

I had one of those cheese bakes from Aldi over Christmas. Serves 4, it said
Served me Grin while the cat looked on sadly

I don't like pate but my dad eats it by the dollop on toast so I figure it's a spread it thick scenario

Mummyoflittledragon · 26/01/2023 00:13

You’re eating it wrong. That pack is about enough to feed 8 for a restaurant starter.

MillicentTrilbyHiggins · 26/01/2023 00:15

I really want pate now. But I have to low carb so no bread.
Might have to buy some tomorrow and use celery like a spoon to eat it.

CrocodilesCry · 26/01/2023 00:15

A tiny tub of pate less than 200g? DP makes a good hole in that on toast just for himself. Pull the other one, it's got bells on.

MrsTerryPratchett · 26/01/2023 00:15

Are you spreading it like marmite?

Proper LOL.

pattihews · 26/01/2023 00:18

Mummyoflittledragon · 26/01/2023 00:13

You’re eating it wrong. That pack is about enough to feed 8 for a restaurant starter.

Where on earth do you eat out? That would be a tiny 20g sliver. 25p-worth. How much do you pay for this mini-starter?

CrocodilesCry · 26/01/2023 00:20

pattihews · 26/01/2023 00:18

Where on earth do you eat out? That would be a tiny 20g sliver. 25p-worth. How much do you pay for this mini-starter?

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Literally a teaspoonful each 😂

4thonthe4th · 26/01/2023 00:23

Are you spreading it thinly like butter?

pizzaHeart · 26/01/2023 00:23

It doesn’t matter OP how you spread it. There are instructions on the pack that you should keep it in the fridge only for 2 days after opening.
Let’s say that you’ve opened it at 6pm on Saturday. At 6 pm on the following Monday open your fridge and throw away the leftovers. That’s it, don’t be scared.

Dartmoorcheffy · 26/01/2023 00:24

Bizarre.

StrychnineInTheSandwiches · 26/01/2023 00:27

A standard tub of pate contains less than 200g, yet your family of four have appetites so dainty and smol that you cannot possibly manage to finish a full tub even with pate featuring as the star attraction meal of the week, as well as appearing in some further follow up meals? Culminating in you all being too scared to open the fridge cos the leftover pate is there waiting to say rude things to you.

What an odd little household.