Palmetto Proving Grounds

typically grill burgers, chicken...sometimes make a breakfast casarole (for an early game) or chili, then a nice spread of chips and snacks and usually a dessert...mix in beer or vodka, turn up the car stereo and get down

We do it up...we don't buy anything pre-made. From marinated then grilled boston butt, steaks, shrimp kabobs, pancakes and eggs for early games, chicken bog, Frogmore Stew, to a 140 lb pig for last years Clemson game. We live to entertain and along with the food there is a mixed drink of the day (Gator Hater Punch or Neutered Bulldog Brew for example). We have some great folks that are near us in the lot every year and we all go in together sometimes. Add a TV and some music, good friends and a LOT of cold beer and that pretty much typifies a Football Saturday for me. I wouldn't have it any other way.
Go Cocks!

not much anymore, just pick up food.

back in the day when we were just out of college and we all had paychecks for the first time lol...

good ideas:

oysters in fryer
anything else in fryer

premarinate pre-cut/prepped chicken, steak, various peppers and veggies in different marinades overnight, bring a couple hundred kabob sticks, keep a charcoal grilling all tailgate and let people serve themselves - my favorite

premarinate wings same way - this requires someone who knows what they are doing cooking them in batches.

really a big hit was always that we'd provide the charcoal and grill, keep it burning all tailgate, bring your own cuts of meat.

breakfast caseroles for early games

For afternoon or night games, we like to do fried chicken at least once or twice a season when the weather is warm. (Publix and Zesto are our favorites).

For cold weather games, we sometimes do chili (keep it warm in a crockpot, powered by the same deep cycle battery that runs our TV). At the Clemson game last November, we did bratwurst on the grill and warm German potato salad in the crockpot.

Noon games, we'll do sausage and ham biscuits and grits, or sometimes a sausage and egg breakfast casserole.

Beer is our beverage of choice for warm weather afternoon/night games. For noon games, it's usually orange blossoms (gin, sweet vermouth orange juice). Cold weather games, we like hot tea spiked with dark rum.

Need your space number please because you're about to make a lot of new friends:). Your tailgate sounds epic.

We grill every game. No fried chicken, or take out. Occasionally someone will bring a nugget tray from Chick-fil-a, but they are normally guests of someone else.

All of these tailgating menus sound amazing