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?

I had pate in an Italian restaurant last week. The serving was 3 full size oatcakes with what I can only describe as the poo emoji on top of each one. Must have been half a pack of pate in each one. I managed the lot. Was delicious.

But maybe it's a huge salad.

I read the nutritional information on a pack of pate once. I haven't been able to eat it since. Weird because I eat lots of junk and never read the packets.

You asked "Why don’t they sell it in usable portions?". If the "white tubs" are indeed the 175g tub of NoSquirrels' picture, that is a usable portion - for two people. For four people it is a miserably mean and insubstantial portion.

PATE IS NOT A "SPREAD". It is meant to be eaten as "a thick layer on French bread". If you want to scrape it on and scrape it off - might I suggest paste rather than pate?

Don't be silly, it's a humongous salad.

Omg I've never laughed at a post like this before 😂😂😂😂😂

How big is the pack? Bet I could 🤣

Roll it up in crisp iceberg lettuce leaves and eat it like Yuk Sung!

Cut off the grey and eat the pink. Honestly, you don't deserve paté if you're eating it like a Princes meat paste from the 80's.

Have it on cucumber slices.

OP!! 🤦‍♀️ you're meant to be having huge wads of it!

we as a family really like it - it’s literally the once a week treat centre piece meal with salad on a Saturday night

Four people can't finish one pack of pate they really like? And then get scared of the pate? Are you anxious dolls?

It's literally designed to be a starter. What you have before your main course 😂

@pyracantha

You need a pâté intervention!!

Also there are more toppings than just cucumber...

Pickled gherkins
Picked beetroot
Piccalilli
Sautéed mushrooms and onions
Streaky bacon
Crispy onions
Remoulade (Danish, not French)

OP seriously, what size tub? You say a white tub. I can't see one but the website keeps stopping me by asking my postcode and there's nothing to make that go away.

your description of the colour change is odd....maybe it is going off? But 170g should go easily with 4 people.

Proper laughing at this 😂

Yanbu OP. 70% of landfill is unfinished packs of pate. It's a problem. The entire world is full of people who buy pate and are then unable to eat it due to being reduced to a state of terror by it.

I laughed so hard, I cried actual tears! 🤣

This is the best thread.

How big a pack of pate is it if you have it as part of a meal and then on toast for days?

I don’t like pate but my husband can get through a pack quite quickly himself.

M&S do small packs

Now I want pate. Thanks a bloody lot.

A whole pack?....can and have 😬😬🙇‍♀️ #Xmas

once a week treat centre piece meal with salad on a Saturday night.
oh the thrills when that's what you wait all week for, live dangerously; get a chippy!

What, none of you see it open in the fridge and sneak a cheeky finger full of pate when nobody is looking?

That's how it gets eaten in our house,

I foresee 'scared of pate' being a mumsnet classic of the future. One that becomes legendary like the Sistine screamer, Mexican house thief, et al.