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A wicker promise that today the ants and you will dine equally well.
means A lidded woven container, usually wicker, designed to carry food and tableware for eating outdoors.
from "Picnic" comes from the French pique-nique, recorded in the late 1600s, originally meaning a fashionable social meal to which each guest contributed food or paid a share — the second half is likely just a playful rhyming echo rather than a meaningful word. "Basket" is far older and murkier, arriving in English via Anglo-Norman and possibly rooted in a Celtic word for plaited or woven work. The two married only after the picnic became, by the 19th century, a portable outdoor affair — and the wicker hamper became its faithful luggage.
- Origin word
- Picnic comes from French pique-nique, meaning casual shared meal
- Wicker logic
- Woven gaps keep contents cool and ventilated
- Cartoon thief
- Yogi Bear made basket-stealing a national pastime
- Class symbol
- Victorians used elaborate baskets to display social status