Re: Another gravy swamp.

D wrote:

 
 
On Thu, 28 Nov 2024, Carol wrote:
 

D wrote:
 

 
 
On Wed, 27 Nov 2024, Carol wrote:
 

D wrote:
 

 
This reminds me of baseball games I went to, and I found
people bbq:ing in the parking lot! Never seen that in europe.
Felt very genuine!

 
Tailgate party.  Trucks flip the tail gate down and have a mass
party waiting for the game to open.  Burgers, hot dogs, some
might have a steak or so.
 

 
Ahhh.... so that's where the name comes from! I've been wondering
about it, but never looked it up. Thank you for scratching that
itch!  =)

 
It was funny but I lived in a trailer park age 21-23.  We had the
same type of party long ago.  A televised game would come on and
we'd bring out our TVs with rabbit ears and turn them all on to the
only channel with the game.  We'd set up BBQ's if we had one and
folks who didn't have one would grill on your's.  Chicken franks
were best most of us could afford but it all worked out.  I'd make
a ton of coleslaw  and beans and some chicken dogs.  Folks would
bring cheap beer and we'd just have fun.
 
Just a day having a group party.  We called it a trailer gate party.
Trailers have a v-shaped front gate amd we'd set up by there ot
bigger grills would be perched in the center triangle of the hitch.
 
I don't think that was common.  It was just something us college
students would do.
 

 
Brings back memories! I think Busch was the cheap beer of choice when
I was a student. It was ridiculously cheap! And guaranteed to have no
flavour at all. ;)

Strohs or schliz for us.  Same concept though!  Jim next to my trailer
had an icemaker and I had the cooler so we each tossed in a 12 pack.
He had a weber grill (I only had a small 2 burger habatchi).  We used
his grill and ice, and my cooler and we both had extra beer and chicken
franks.  I'd make sides for folks.  There might be 50 of us just
walking along and sitting with others.  Simple home cheap home fun!