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Tailgating: The New Picnic

No more lounging in a meadow—we picnic in parking lots now

By Evann Gastaldo,  Newser Staff

Posted Oct 21, 2009 12:17 PM CDT

(Newser) – The good old-fashioned picnic—a blanket, a thermos, the countryside—is a thing of the past. Its replacement: Tailgating, “jammed together, on asphalt, amid exhaust fumes and exhausting vulgarities,” writes Frank Deford for NPR. This new American tradition “crosses all ethnic, racial,...   Read full story »

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