Repas 'tiré du sac' - Meaning

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Hi Folks,

My village/town is putting on some entertainment on the evening of 14th July, a ‘soirée avec pique-nique tiré de sac’, there will be a ‘bal’ followed by ‘feu artifice’.

I hope to attend, it will be my first such event.

I had assumed that a ’ pique-nique tiré de sac’ meant that I should bring along my own food to eat there.
However when I looked up what a ‘tiré de sac’ meant, I found this:

" Le principe d’un repas tiré du sac est que chacun apporte un mets, ses couverts, et partage entre tous"

Is it the French norm to ‘partage entre tous’ with complete strangers at this type of event? I’m thinking my ham sarnie, apple and Sprite won’t go very far lol!

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Is it not like a pot luck where everyone brings a dish and everyone just digs into whatever is there.

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It is exactly that.

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When I was in the school PTA in the previous village where I lived, the “soirée loto” was organised in a similar manner - everyone brought something along, starters, dessert, munchies, drinks, but we always gave out a notice of the kind of things that would be useful to have, otherwise you can end up with 50 quiches lorraines, and umpteen chocolate brownie platters. If you can contact someone on the organising committee, they might be forthcoming about the type of “useful” contribution you could make.

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“Ladies a plate” that used to be seen on local event notices, would seem to be the equivalent.

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this sort of thing happens a lot in our wild, carefree lifestyle… :wink: :wink:
Nowadays, I know to take what I want to eat as a main course… and take a dessert to share with whomever…

Mincemeat slice, grantham gingerbreads, apple-cinnamon cake and the latest favourite is my gluten-free orange cake… all these are happily accepted by everyone…

and we will happily accept a small taster of whatever edibles our near-neighbours have on offer.

Of course, we all take our own plates cutlery, drinks and glasses and, again, we happily offer to share whatever bottle(s) we’ve with us… especially well received is something with a special twist/kick… :wink: they do enjoy my sloe gin etc…

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We tend to take finger food (eg roll of puff pastry with tapenade spread on it, rolled up, sliced into 20 or so slices, samosas, borek, a bowl of baby tomatoes etc), then something to go alongside for us. I don’t like shared bowls of things as people are not brilliant with hygiene. Many will bring a savoury or sweet tart cut into slices.

And if I’m feeling energetic a sweet traybake of some sort, usually courgette and chocolate.

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There would be huge disappointment if I did not bring my Coronation Chicken to our Haut d’Aux Tetes summer get together.

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Exactly ! … some of our British recipes are thoroughly enjoyed as a “speciality” over here :+1:

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Does it disappear quickly… or sloely? :smiley:

I’ll get my coat.

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Would you share the recipe or is it secret??

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This one is fab

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I do a similar thing with a lemon, very nice.

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