Bring Back Picnics

[fattymeatysardine]

I'm sick of going to restaurants for social gatherings. The food is usually average and when the check comes it's all a disappointment.
There's too many great and easy recipes that are easy to follow on Youtube. Next time I plan on meeting family I think some tasty sandwiches and fresh soup with suffice.

 

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If you live in a city set up for that then it's a great idea. Aussies do this a lot and most of our parks have nice picnic areas with free electric hotplates so you can cook as well.

 

[fattymeatysardine]

If you live in a city set up for that then it's a great idea. Aussies do this a lot and most of our parks have nice picnic areas with free electric hotplates so you can cook as well.

That's really neat. The closest I've seen to that here in the US is a park with empty grills so you can bring your own charcoal or whatever to start a fire

 

[the_tortoise]

I am also a fan of picnics, they are much better better imo than unaffordably-spendy ($$$) usually both sensory-unfriendly and food-allergy-unfriendly restaurants and cafes...

Most (not all) of my memories of socializing over food or drinks with people in restaurants are stressful blur of color and cacophonous, jumbled, agonizing noise and smells....with seconds-long bits of clear audio and visual here and there, imbued with misery...

Very few of my memories of picnics are like that, even if they happened in big-city parks and beaches, and are still are overlaid with sensory overload...with picnics it's more just the tolerable everyday level of overload or actual peace

If you live in a city set up for that then it's a great idea. Aussies do this a lot and most of our parks have nice picnic areas with free electric hotplates so you can cook as well.

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That's really neat. The closest I've seen to that here in the US is a park with empty grills so you can bring your own charcoal or whatever to start a fire

In Canada some of our public park picnic areas and car-camping sites have firepits, most are like the ones below, or just a metal ring set in the ground:

(Photo source: https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/fire-bans-lifted-in-banff-yoho-and-kootenay-parks-1.3157885)

(Photo source: Coastal B.C. campfire ban in place for its first weekend)

 

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In Canada some of our public park picnic areas and car-camping sites have firepits, most are like the ones below, or just a metal ring set in the ground:

One of the reasons for our electric barbecues - The majority of Australia has a year round 100% fire ban. You're only allowed to cook on gas or electric by law and having free barbecues everywhere lets us maintain our lifestyle. Because of our climate we spend a lot of time outdoors and many people go to parks or to the beach to have their Christmas Lunch too.