Evening Standard food writers try out the best and worst supermarket picnic food
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00:00Oh, no.
00:01No.
00:02Oh.
00:02Why?
00:03It's awful.
00:04But that's the perfect part of the incident.
00:07You're putting a sausage roll in hummus?
00:11Don't ever do that.
00:11What are you doing?
00:12I'm not going to do that.
00:14It's the hottest summer on record, probably,
00:17which means it's time to go outside and picnic.
00:19But what do the supermarkets have in store?
00:21Here, we're going to run through the best of them
00:23just to warn you off the bad ones.
00:27Lots of the same sausage rolls.
00:28Thanks, Lidl.
00:29Yeah.
00:29OK, smells good.
00:31Yeah.
00:33Not great.
00:33It's dry.
00:35OK.
00:35Really dry.
00:36Yeah, that's poor.
00:36That is dry.
00:40We've got a lot of quiche here today.
00:44Oh, that is dry.
00:46That's awful.
00:47I just, why do development chefs in supermarkets
00:53think it's OK to give people that food?
00:57Lidl, grow up.
00:58We're going to move on to the next supermarket.
01:01Thank you for sending us the reduced version, Sagebrews.
01:03We know you love us so much.
01:05And a Scotch egg, I think, is canonical in terms of picnics.
01:08And for some reason, it reminds me of David Brent,
01:11and I don't know why.
01:12That's really bad.
01:13Oh, that's horrible, even without the egg.
01:15What are you eating there?
01:17A filet straw.
01:19Really good.
01:20Is it?
01:20Really good, yeah.
01:21OK.
01:23Well done, Sagebrews.
01:23Solid.
01:24OK, we move on to the highlight of any picnic,
01:27the Lemon Meringue Cluster.
01:30The faintest hint of lemon air freshener.
01:32Oh, it's like eating syph.
01:37Well, Aldi get all the marks for their selection,
01:40because it's sausage rolls, olives, some macarons,
01:43and then tons of booze, which, to be honest,
01:45is exactly how I would do a picnic.
01:47All right, get that down you, Josh.
01:48Cheers, Aldi.
01:50It's Aldi.
01:53That's fine.
01:53That's inoffensive.
01:54I think it benefits from being warm, to be honest.
01:57Can I interest you in some Spanish pork?
01:59I don't know how to say this without it
02:01sounding like the police should be called,
02:02but that's perfect part meat.
02:08If I turned up to a field and was presented
02:11with this on a Gingham thing, I'd be excited, would you?
02:15We're going to start with the sausage roll.
02:17OK.
02:19It is soft.
02:22That's decent.
02:23No, it's fine.
02:25But if you look at that, look, not enough pork.
02:28Let's try the quiche.
02:30That's too much egg.
02:31Mm.
02:33That's lovely.
02:35That's a lovely quiche.
02:36Cheesy, soft.
02:37That's a great, that's a good quiche.
02:39Have you ever had one of these at a picnic before?
02:41No.
02:42That's an example of the classic Waitrose overreach,
02:44where they try and make everything really fancy,
02:47and there's just no need.
02:48Just stick to the classics.
02:50Oh, that's bad news.
02:51That's disgusting.
02:52What the fuck?
02:56I think the Tesco have absolutely nailed the brief
02:58here, because they've got crisps,
03:00they've got a truffle dip, they've got olives,
03:01they've got meat, cheese, whatever they are.
03:04Sausage roll and cakes.
03:07Hey, surfboard shaped crisps.
03:08That's new.
03:10That's good news.
03:12Creamy dip, very zingy lime.
03:15Happy days.
03:15I think that's probably the best thing we've had so far.
03:17Yeah, definitely.
03:18Try their cold meats with a dip included in the middle.
03:21That's actually rather smart.
03:23That's a really good spicy dip.
03:25That's really strong.
03:26Get that, that, and that, and you'd be sort of all right.
03:32Morrison's has decided to send us sweet corn fritters,
03:36pepperoni bites, barbecue cheese poppers, hot honey olives,
03:41ham and cheese croquettes, and 17 chicken poppers.
03:45No one needs this much batter.
03:47Ham and cheese croquette, let's give it a go.
03:51Tastes better than it looks.
03:54It's actually not bad.
03:55I think let's do the sweet corn fritters,
03:56they actually look quite decent.
03:58Oh, god.
03:59It's like eating a beach.
04:02I'm not, I'm not, I'm sorry.
04:05Thanks so much for joining us for this picnic taste test.
04:07It was harrowing, I suppose.
04:10For our full thoughts, head to standard.co.uk
04:13forward slash going out.