How posh is your supermarket?

I love picky bits we always have them for Christmas tea
My granddaughter always made gorgeous ones for us on a big plate ….love picky bits and love the phrase, says what it is

When mum and dad were alive it was ‘nibbles’ just a name change with time

Deli, nibbles, party food, I hadn’t heard of picky bits, but the three for £8 seems to be popular at the moment in Sainsbury’s too.

Someone up thread said "nibbles" - this does sound better to me but still on the &unnecessary^ side of things - personally "nibbles" might be tarallini, olives, crisps... tasty though!

I don’t like the term, personally, but each to their own.
It sounds as if it is expected that people will help themselves from the fridge, which can be chaotic. Or else a nicely laid out buffet? How does it work for a family?

They sell 'picky bits' everywhere - they might not just be called that! One person's picky bits might be another's deli foods, or another's sausage rolls and pork pies - it covers a multitude of sins (and yes, I'm using the word 'sins' on purpose here for the 'my body is a temple' brigade).

Well I'm learning things here. I never heard the phrase picky bits before- I always thought it was a buffet and I'm certainly not posh and shop at Tesco.

Glad they don't have picky bits there- think it's called a deli?

NotSpaghetti

^Picky Bits^ are not things I'd want to buy.
Unfortunately they sound very unhealthy to me.

I'm in the "Deli" camp.

When we talk about 'picky bits' in our house, it would include things you would buy from a deli, such as cold meats, cheeses, olives, pate, hummus and so on. Don't assume that 'picky bits' just means an assortment of unhealthy stuff.

Picky Bits are not things I'd want to buy.
Unfortunately they sound very unhealthy to me.

I'm in the "Deli" camp.

Crossstitchfan

Scribbles

Sorry but I won't be buying anything labelled "picky bits". I think it's a revolting phrase and +++++++ YEUK WARNING ++++++ I can't stop myself from thinking of scabs snd noses.

Very strange way of thinking! Also, it might have been better to keep your thoughts to yourself as you have probably put quite a few impressionable people off picky bits.

Good ! They need to find a better way. Scribbles is right. Can’t believe they would use that phrase but I suppose anything goes in some places

Picky teas are very popular with my family.

Scribbles

Sorry but I won't be buying anything labelled "picky bits". I think it's a revolting phrase and +++++++ YEUK WARNING ++++++ I can't stop myself from thinking of scabs snd noses.

Very strange way of thinking! Also, it might have been better to keep your thoughts to yourself as you have probably put quite a few impressionable people off picky bits.

They’re just called delis here. Dips and sharing platters mostly. I wouldn’t buy anything called picky bits, sounds like something from nostrils. Yuck.

Now I come to think of it, we’d call them ‘nibbles’.

As for ‘posh’ supermarkets, I use both Asda and Waitrose!

Our nearest supermarket is Morrisons, so probably not posh at all. When I was a child we always had what we called a picky tea on Boxing Day, but wouldn’t expect to see food labelled picky bits in a food shop.

Picky tea has always been known in our family as a Surprise on a Plate!…..

Ilovedogs22

My local supermarket is Waitrose and the type that shop in there think that they're very posh!
I on the other hand, I pop in to the nearby Heron foods and grab a bargain for a fraction of the price. Yeah me! 😊

Well, I shop in Wautrose and I don't think I'm very posh. I am ne - quite ordinary really.

And DGS3 worked for Heron foods as a Saturdag job a year or so ago. He forwarded the emails sent to him by the store manager. They were bullying and aggressive. So yes 'Yeah you'.

Picky tea - a favourite here. Doesn’t matter from which supermarket though, we’ve done it for years.
Even the 🎄Eve buffet is known as picky bits,

Party food and cocktails.

What are picky bits/deli items/party foods called in Lidl and Aldi?

Ilovedogs22

My local supermarket is Waitrose and the type that shop in there think that they're very posh!
I on the other hand, I pop in to the nearby Heron foods and grab a bargain for a fraction of the price. Yeah me! 😊

We don't think we're posh, we just are!
😂😂😂

But not so posh when we go into Lidl beforehand!

We don’t have posh supermarkets here. Waitrose stops at Cardiff. ‘picky bits’ they’d laugh in your face here.

Never heard of “pick bits” , I understand deli, wine, fruit, meat, cereals. Then every few weeks it gets swapped round to make shopping more difficult. I’ve got used to Waitrose can’t be bothered learning another supermarkets silly pricing system.

I don't warm to the phrase "picky bits" either it sounds a bit gentile and twee to me.

I remember buying 'Bogeys' (the book not the stuff from up your nose) for one of my GCs.

My local supermarket is Waitrose and the type that shop in there think that they're very posh!
I on the other hand, I pop in to the nearby Heron foods and grab a bargain for a fraction of the price. Yeah me! 😊

Scribbles

Sorry but I won't be buying anything labelled "picky bits". I think it's a revolting phrase and +++++++ YEUK WARNING ++++++ I can't stop myself from thinking of scabs snd noses.

You'd hate the book I just bought for my grandson then - it's called Bogeys!