What are you favorite tailgate foods for hot weather?

I'd just add a chilled fruit tray for the clemson game. Everything we usually cook involves cooking the food aka it comes out hot so we also talked about cold items we could add.

Haven't done this since my college days, but I'd love a nice ice luge to pour some liquor down for this first game. Cant fricking wait.

I haven't done it but maybe a vat of chilled pasta salad? Precut watermelon? It's tough to have food cooked out there and not be warm... Hopefully someone else has a better idea.

cold beer

The only right answer.

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Are you asking for something to cook that you won't sweat while cooking it or something that

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Not this. Anyone out there is going to sweat. Cooking or not.

I went to a tailgate one year for the opening game and they had chilled spaghetti a salad and some French bread with butter along with some finger sandwiches and dips…. It was actually really good filling and no one had to cook out in the heat….. they cooked it the day before and headed chilled in a nice chest….. I like Cole spaghetti so to me it was good

We’ll be doing the usual. Fried trout fried shrimp fried back strap. Jambalaya grilled beef tips and boudin. Lots of cold Beer and water. Open bar.

Egg / Chicken / Tuna salad sandwiches

Cold fried chicken

Pasta salads

Brats

Fruit Salad

Deviled Eggs

Burgers good any time

Fried Chicken wings. They're good at room temperature and you don't have to cook them!

Chilled shrimp pasta salad. Packet into gallon size Ziploc bags. Pull it out 1 gallon at a time. Put it into the small aluminum trays that fit sideways into the big aluminum tray and load the big one with ice so it’s sitting on top of ice.