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Iconic Picnic Staples From The '60s That Need To Make A Comeback By Jay Wilson Aug. 20, 2025 2:19 pm EST

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The summer months rolling in can only mean one thing: It's picnic time. Picnics have been a feature of American life for almost 200 years, with the eating style coming to the country from Europe in the 1830s. From the get-go, a picnic was an opportunity to create a portable feast that would make you the envy of your friends and family — as time went on, they didn't get any less extravagant (although a host of picnic hacks started to appear that made life much easier). In the mid-20th century, though, picnics reached new peaks of excitement. A combination of processed food becoming more available and ever-more ambitious re

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