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"Pic-Nic Basket" before the days of the scotch cooler or igloo chest....families packed cold sandwiches and chips and perhaps some cookies and a thermos of kool-aid....into a large woven basket with a wooden flip top lid.....and went to the park. An "oil cloth" was spread on the pic-nic table (sanitary)....and the plastic plates were set out.....with perhaps some rocks placed on the corners to keep the wind from blowing the cloth and everything on it away. (Later they came up with metal clamps to hold the oil cloth in place.)
Picnic lunches were usually just cold cuts in sandwiches and potato chips and maybe cookies. Sandwiches were wrapped in waxed paper*....(no saranwrap in the early days).
yeah, that was before we knew we would die or worse from eating cold cuts, eggs, or mayonnaise that wasn't kept refrigerated
"a lick and a promise"........a less than thorough cleaning....as in I gave the kitchen floor "a lick and a promise.....I will give it a good scrubbing on Saturday". (My mom used to say this)
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I better try some nice ones to balance things out.
