Talk:Picnic table

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I can't believe, that a "picnic table" is the same as a "Biergarnitur", because it looks like you have hard times to move it. --Stefan-Xp 13:18, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I hope that it is the same thing. I'm not a native German speaker, but I searched the categories of Biergarnitur before adding the interwiki, trying to find an exact match (there's no such thing as a Picknicktisch). It looks like the same thing, and the descriptions are very similar, so the name difference must be cultural. GilliamJF 13:09, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

My concern is the Image... it looks like the Table is mounted on the ground. The Images in enWP and deWP are completly different. --Stefan-Xp 13:18, 28 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Actually a Biergarnitur is something entirely different than a picnic table. We have both in Germany: What you call picnic table can often be seen e.g. on resting places along Germany highways/motorways. Biergarnituren are fundamentally different; one of their defining characteristics is that they can be very quickly disassembled, moved (e.g. by a car) to a different place) and then reassembled. Picnic tables as depicted here are usually on a fixed location (often even attached to the ground). Looking at the descriptions of both articles, and the pictures, I am surprised anybody would think that they represent similar things :). --BlackFingolfin (talk) 14:23, 28 June 2009 (UTC)[reply]

History?

Presumably someone invented or popularized the picnic table, probably in the 1930s or 1940s. This article needs a history section to provide some cultural context. Kestenbaum (talk) 16:29, 30 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

"In the past, picnic tables were made of wood"

This wording implies that wooden tables are a thing of the past, which at least here in Britain is untrue: the great majority of picnic tables in public places are still made of wood. 81.159.61.104 (talk) 17:00, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]

I changed it.--Patrick (talk) 22:33, 27 August 2008 (UTC)[reply]