I thought I would be missing the Electric Picnic this year due to a lack of funds and free time (I’m off on holidays to New! York! on Wednesday – I’d love to hear your NY restaurant tips). But then my awesome pal Jules offered me a plus one on her freebie day pass for Sunday. Best of both worlds: I got to go down and partake of some of the fun while still saving some cash and babysitter credits for my holiday.
One of the very many fantastic things about the Electric Picnic is of course the wide variety of high quality and interesting food. There is also a wide variety of overpriced rubbish. We lunched on delicious pies, mash and gravy (€8 each) from the justifiably reknowned PieMinister. Our dinner came from the Slow Food Tent – my sausage sandwich for €6 had a little too much bread and not quite enough sausage, but the sausage was very good indeed. Jules’ BLT for €7 was excellent, and came with about nine rashers – definitely the better choice. The DJ playing there on Sunday evening was excellent so we happily lingered. Some of the food tents are lovely destinations in their own right.
How was your Electric Picnic food experience? What was the most delicious, the best value and the biggest rip-off?
By the way, Conor Pope has a hilarious piece about ‘posh’ camping in the Irish Times today, in which he reports having spent €350 on food over the whole weekend, consuming an eye-watering number of burgers and pies.