Which Is The Best For The Party

[jonH]

I have a mate who won;t eat olives cos he says they're pretentious

they can be.

 

[sojourner]

Olives and ickle tomatoes aren't food, they're little nibbles that leave you wanting more. Before a proper Italian meal that's fine and dandy, but otherwise - a perhaps it's just me - but I had far too much of pretty much that selection at corporate functions from the late 80s to 90s. Add to that bruschetta. Oh and then there was the mini-food canape phase (oh it's a mini hamburger and a tiny hotdog), the rustic phase and the time when you couldn't move for sushi. Thankfully your average canape selection's a bit more of a mix up these days

The day that someone serves me curry on an oversized white plate with little cocktail sticks as self-serving implements is the day when I consider the 'umble curry as overexposed poncey canape fodder.

Olives and a few other things are fine, but the balance of old Herbsmen's selection seems wrong and a little insubstantial. And besides, nobody really offers sun dried tomatoes since the 80s - it's all sunblush now...dahling...

Well that's your fault for having lived a poncey life then mate

I'd never eaten owt like that til I was nearly 30, and at my parties my guests tend towards guzzling alcohol with a bit of food, rather than the other way round.

 

[boing!]

just make sure you have a good cheese selection. After that everything else will fall in to place.