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No day out at the footie would be complete without a matchday picnic, but i'm getting a bit bored with marmite sarnies, dairy lea lunchables, scotch egg and muller rice washed down with a flask of tea.

 

What do you put in your matchday picnic?

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Personally I like to take a small pot of Beluga caviar with a few toast points. Some freshly smoked loch muir smoked salmon sandwiches in poppy seeded rolls. All washed down with some freshly squeezed pomegranate juice and champagne cocktail.

 

Failing that a few beers in Winchester coupled with as many Chicken pasties as I can eat.

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I can normally manage a couple of hours without food.

 

Me too. When I am work I go for Lunch as usual at 1 and then at 3.40 open my goodie back full of pies, pasties, burgers and coke and much my way through the next 40 minutes before returning to work at 4.20. All the lads that go to football in my place do it.

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Mrs LS and I go into the big city (myself being Wiltshire born, breed, and resident) maybe do a bit of shopping, her choice not mine, have lunch together and then go to the match. After we go out for a meal together. We make a day of it together. As for the match, rarely eat anything, but maybbe a drink (non alcoholic).

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Me too. When I am work I go for Lunch as usual at 1 and then at 3.40 open my goodie back full of pies, pasties, burgers and coke and much my way through the next 40 minutes before returning to work at 4.20. All the lads that go to football in my place do it.

 

When I go to football I often leave my house at noon. Sometimes I haven't eaten. Then, just like when I'm at work, I go to the pub and drink 3 or 4 pints. This often means that by mid afternoon i'm feeling quite hungry. Luckily the place i'm in sells food which means I can buy it there.

 

Sadly there's not enough room at st mary's to get out the picnic table and arrange my pots of hummus, crisps and carrot sticks in an orderly fashion. Until this happens i'll probably just end up munching on pies.

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A fry up on the motorway! Can anyone suggest a place to get a good fry up in Southampton?

 

The truckers cafe next to the Platform Tavern used to do a mean fry up, I know they've actaully been taken over by the Platform Tavern now so I don't know whath their dare is currently ike

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Matchday eating...starts with a full English and a cup of tea. Get to town about 10.30am...get a McD supersize with fries, full-fat Sprite. Walk to pub...have as many pints as possible...walk to ground while eating a bacon and cheese roll. Watch 1st half...get pint and pie at half-time...watch 2nd half. Go to concourse, have a pint and a packet of crisps. Go to pub and have 4-5 more pints. Go home and prepare a salad for dinner - after all one's got to watch one's diet. (;

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My matchday eating and drinking experience is a very finely tuned process:

 

Beers. Pub lunch. Beer at the ground. Game starts. Whiskey from hip flask. Half time beer. More whiskey from hip flask. Post match pub beers. Takeaway and home.

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Nothing better than tailgating in the car park a few hours before ko, grabbing a few beers from the coolbox whilst

engaging in some lighthearted banter with away fans and having a friendly kickabout with them before tucking in

to some prime beef off the bbq. Hear the Millwall fans enjoy a get together before and after the game, and they

always bring their own bottles.

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Someone get that Mash of the Day back on the industrial eastate behind the Chapel. That was damn good fill for £2.50, tasty sausages funny but tasty mash, and a choice of Onion Gravy of Baked Beans.

 

When my kids were smaller they use to like getting down to Townhouse Quay carpark (that is the one right on the water by the Itchen Bridge) having a car picnic. It was different most weeks, as they liked all the different rolls you can get in the Tesco Bakery and would choose allsorts of meats off the Deli to go in them: Garlic Chicken was the favourite though. I would say if you want a pre match picnic do a bit of research round the supermarkets, especially Waitrose. If you have a good butcher see what he has, especially Pork Pies not made of floor sweepings................. Brie and Grape always went down well especially if they are not put in a cold box as by the time you get to Southampton and parked the Brie should be softening a treat.

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3 packets of crisps, mixed flavours. Self control up until ht is easy, the hard part is which to start with.

 

If I'm starving then it's easy, start with those horrible salt 'n vinegar one's out of the way followed by ready salted and try to stuff the whole packet of worcestershershire sauce ones before the teams come out again.

 

If I'm only peckish then it gets tricky; wolf the worcstershershire sauce ones down and leave the others for a game of crisp russian roullette whilst driving home (eyes always on road ahead you see). What i hate is the horrible realisation that I'm gonna need the second packet before the second half starts. If I plump for the ready salted I know at the back of my mind that I only have disgusting s and v to eat on the homeward journey, if I decide to save the ready salted for later then I have to watch the whole second half with that fould sharp aftertaste of salt and vinegar throughout the last 45 minutes stinging the roof of my mouth and tongue.

 

Recently not been a proper problem as the football has taken my mind off it but there is always the occasional bore-fest game that leaves me regretting taking the damned things with me at all.

 

This thread is about in-ground picnics by the way, please think before posting people.

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No day out at the footie would be complete without a matchday picnic, but i'm getting a bit bored with marmite sarnies, dairy lea lunchables, scotch egg and muller rice washed down with a flask of tea.

 

What do you put in your matchday picnic?

 

You're wrong.

 

It would.

 

It really would.

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3 packets of crisps, mixed flavours. Self control up until ht is easy, the hard part is which to start with.

 

If I'm starving then it's easy, start with those horrible salt 'n vinegar one's out of the way followed by ready salted and try to stuff the whole packet of worcestershershire sauce ones before the teams come out again.

 

If I'm only peckish then it gets tricky; wolf the worcstershershire sauce ones down and leave the others for a game of crisp russian roullette whilst driving home (eyes always on road ahead you see). What i hate is the horrible realisation that I'm gonna need the second packet before the second half starts. If I plump for the ready salted I know at the back of my mind that I only have disgusting s and v to eat on the homeward journey, if I decide to save the ready salted for later then I have to watch the whole second half with that fould sharp aftertaste of salt and vinegar throughout the last 45 minutes stinging the roof of my mouth and tongue.

 

Recently not been a proper problem as the football has taken my mind off it but there is always the occasional bore-fest game that leaves me regretting taking the damned things with me at all.

 

This thread is about in-ground picnics by the way, please think before posting people.

 

what an odd world.

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