Matchday Picnics

[dune]

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?

[Guy]

Twiglets and Tizer.

[Mmm Donuts]

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

[Tokyo-Saint]

Is Turkish going to take a run up to answer this one?

[trousers]

Plums

[Turkish]

Just do what a lot of our fans do and spend most of the game downstairs stuffing your fat greedy face with as many pies and burgers as you can eat it 90 minutes.

[rallyboy]

in the Northam I just go with Lockets, but I did stumble into the upper Kingsland once where the finest bone china and cake stands were a must.

I know crisps are banned in the Chapel as they exceed the permitted noise levels.

[fish fingers]

Pork Scratchings and a Lion bar.

[Colinjb]

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.

[ant]

I can normally manage a couple of hours without food.

[Shroppie]

Burger before the game. King Alfred is best.

[sussexsaint]

Glenmorangie

[doddisalegend]

I can normally manage a couple of hours without food.

 

yeah what he said.... sometimes I'll get a subway in town before the game (italian BMT ..mmm) but at the match I don't eat.

[Hatch]

Just whatever my mummy makes for me

[Turkish]

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.

[Golden Balls]

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

 

Wetherspoons

[landford.saint]

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).

[latter day saint]

Jack Daniels & a packet of crisps.

sometimes have a burger & cheesy chips from the van by the Chapel pub

[The Cat]

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.

[Guy]

Just whatever my mummy makes for me

 

Does she cut the crusts off your sandwiches?

[percy windham]

I just pack a finger of fudge.

[ericofarabia]

A Spitroast at HT would be nice, but Amy isn't replying to my Texts any more.

[Big Bad Bob]

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

[arfurdent]

A fry up on the motorway!

 

Suggest you avoid the outside lane

[ecuk268]

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

 

Chevvys Cafe Woolston.

 

[Big Bad Bob]

Chevvys Cafe Woolston.

 

 

Hmm, what i remember the Platform Tavern's b'fast used to look better than that, more variety as well

 

Now I've made myself hungry for a Tavern breakfast, must make a trip there again sometime soon...

[CitySaint]

Chapel Arms, burger and chips £3.50 from the van outside - Bargain.

[Saint Fan CaM]

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. (;

[The Kraken]

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.

Edited 18 August, 2011 by The Kraken

[Dr Who?]

I always stop at Fleet, and get food, some sanwiches and a bottle of water, and then Winchester to get a Costa. Then on the way back I stop at Fleet and get a KFC!!

[sfcuk fan]

I just pack a finger of fudge.

 

 

huh, fudgepacker

[Thorpe-le-Saint]

another great day for TSF

[Hatch]

I wish Marks & Spencer could open a little outlet under the Itchen like they have in train stations .

Maybe a WH Smith and a Spud-U-Like as well.

[dune]

another great day for TSF

 

Bad day at school?

[Genk]

Meat & Chips from the Kebab House on London Road, better than Ramsay's Michelin Star Restaurants

[Marino]

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.

[John Boy Saint]

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.

[Jonnyboy]

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

 

that post started so well...

[hamster]

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.

[SaintBobby]

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.

[Jonnyboy]

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.

[hamster]

Just responding to a question, why is that odd? Don't you like crips?

[SNSUN]

I have a burger from the van on outside the chapel/kingsland corner, and that's it. It's more entertaining trying not to squit it out during the 120 minutes following than eating something healthy and green.