What's the difference between a packed lunch and a picnic?

[BroccoliSpears]

Am I being pretentious grandiose in calling our tupperware box of sarnies, fruit, crisps and juice a picnic?

A picnic is food eaten outside, in my book.

for a genuine picnic you need a tartan rug
and a pitched battle with a load of pissed off wasps

We have a tartan rug. We always eat our packed lunch outside on our tartan rug...

To me a packed lunch is individual and a picnic is communal!!

As a family we always take a picnic but for school the boys have a packed lunch. We never take a packed lunch as a family!

tartan rug: v. good
technically you probably need a thermos flask too

A picnic includes wine (preferably chilled in a stream)
And scotch eggs (unsure why)
A hamper (Cath Kidston) or Fortnums wicker basket

Packed lunch is cheese sarnies and a bag of crisps

Sagacious is there no middle ground?

None

I agree communal so more of an outside buffet on a tartan rug rather than out of individual power ranger boxes.