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Supermarket picky-bit wars have begun, but why does British tapas feel so unhinged?

Supermarket picky-bit wars have begun, but why does British tapas feel so unhinged?

Sign up to IndyEat’s free newsletter for weekly recipes, foodie features and cookbook releases Get our food and drink newsletter for free Get our food and drink newsletter for free We’re all familiar with the millennial picky-bit tea: Babybels, olives, leftover roast chicken, mystery charcuterie, more cheese, definitely more pickles than necessary and whatever else can be assembled with minimal effort. Eventually, someone rebranded the whole thing as “girl dinner”, which made eating half a baguette, six cornichons and a family-sized tub of hummus sound less like giving up and more like a lifestyle choice. Now, though, it has evolved into something else entirely and invariably involves burrata, giant butter beans with chorizo and £50-a-kilo Serrano and Iberico cheese “rollitos”. Somewhere along the way, the humble picky tea has had a middle-class rebrand. It has also, like any Great British pastime, become a bit unhinged. After record-breaking May temperatures last week that saw parts of the UK hotter than Spain, Greece and Portugal – where this kind of slothful grazing is, ironically, completely normal – …