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for the record .. it's Plastic Forks™. no spoons. yes, they will be available for eating things that fall through tines, but they're not in the name of the picnic.
Likely food:
Usual picnicky stuff ... dogs, burgers, wide variety of assorted extras (chips, cookies, cakes, fruity goodness, marconi salad). Somebody may get up the energy to make chili (often a forks staple.) Sometimes people think to bring chicken parts as well. In recent years bob has managed to remember to through a couple boxes of graham crackers, bags of marshmallows and chocolate bars (none of this hershey nonsense, incidentally, Ghirardelli chocolate bars ... for the s'mores. There's two reasons for this ... one G makes MUCH better chocolate. second, one of our regular attendees is a hardline vegan and the variety of dark chocolate bob buys does not contain any dairy products.)
I myself am showing up with a box of dogs and a box of hot beef sausages. Traditionally I bring the watermelon that is traditionally not eaten and is given to Bob's mom at the end of sunday cleanup. I'm still deciding whether I want to lug the damn thing down the hill.
Likely booze:
Beer.
There may be other bottles of this and that rolling around in the house or brought by other guests. Wine, mead, single malt scotch, brandy, hard cider that hard lemonade stuff. Sodas are also usually plentiful, although if you have particular requirements related to a non-sugar alternative, you might want to BYOB for that.
Other stuff you might want to bring:
Chairs, tents, air mattresses, bugspray, sunglasses, hats, frisbees, etc.
we probably have something on the order of 20 or so assorted citronella candles in the house that may do absolutely no good in reducing the insect, particularly mosquito, attacks.
Schlepta opportunities:
not so far as I know. This is southern chester county. The less countrified bits of the county barely have septa service, and this is fairly far out. The property is several miles off the route 1 + 202 intersection. I don't know that there's any public transit service to anywhere closer than West Chester.
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