If you were hosting a 70s style party what food and drink would you have?

[keiratwiceknightly]

So a drunken night resulted in this idea...

We've thought

Babycham/snowballs
Vodka martinis with an olive
Starter
Fondue
Cheese and pineapple hedgehog
Devils on horseback
Main
Coq au vin? A really yellow curry? What about vegetarian? Were there any of those in the 70s🤣??
Dessert
Black Forest gateau
Something else?

Any more ideas welcome.

Pink "Milkshake" or was that just for schools?

Make sure and leave the kiddos outside in the parked car, loads of blankets. You don’t really need to go all the way back down the driveway to check on them, just occasionally crack the curtains and clock if the amount of condensation of the car windows matches the number of kiddos in the car.

No babysitters required, where’s the spontaneity in that??!

The food garnishes were as important as the food itself, right?

Maraschino cherries (red AND green), pickled onions, tinned asparagus, piped mayo, origamied olives, a slick of aspic, paper frills on the meat bones.

And remember the crackers! Amazing when you think of the savoury biscuit aisle now (kelp lavosh, etc) compared with then (thick yellow round crimped-edged biscuits with crunchy salt bits).

Radushes cut out in zig zags and spring onions sliced at the stem and curled

Banoffee pie

DM used to make chocolate Angel Delight with cream and decoratebit with Flake, and pass it off as chocolate mousse.

DDad was veggie in the 1970s (also 40s, 50s, 60s, 80s...). I can’t for the life of me think what he ate. Butterbeans, lentil hotpot. Bulgar. Salads. Omelettes. Cheese soufflé.

Cucumber boats - chunks of cucumber sliced in half and the seeds removed, with a squirt of Primula cheese spread. Can be garnished with a small sprig of parsley if you’re sophisticated.

Dubonnet and lemonade to drink.

Primula on celery, hedgehog pineapple and sausage sticks, salmon sandwiches, trifle, cheese twists,

I am still laughing at this guy's descriptions of the jellied everything he attempted to recreate here - especially the meat pineapple.

www.cracked.com/quick-fixes/7-gross-foods-your-grandparents-ate-that-we-taste-tested/

Banana Splits?.

Prawn cocktail starters with thousand island dessing or melon slices

t-bone steak and chips or fondue

black forest gateau
or ice cream and apple pie

Babycham
party 7 beer barrel

coffee made with Kenco coffee bags

I forgot to add a Mateus rose wine bottle ( empty) with a candle stuck in the top. Height of 70s sophistication that.

Re grapefruit hedgehogs. Cubed cheese, pineapple chunks, picked onions AND cubed tinned ham. Various combinations.

@justilou1 I enjoyed those descriptions, too! Very funny.

I was a teenager in the 1970s, and was brought up in a very rural coastal place and we had our own lobster pots.

My mum often did posh dinner party food involving lobsters and crabs and she'd spend all day murdering and bashing those poor fuckers with a hammer.

She never offered me any and I didn't want it. It was a crustacean abattoir in our kitchen, with Radio 2 on in the background.

She had some shell in her hair once and she went out to the bin and a gull attacked her, like a Hitchcock film. It was awesome.

Crack open the cocktail sticks...
Mini gerkhins and pickled onion
Cheese cube and pineapple chunks
Devilled eggs
Mini Quiche slices
Jelly & ice cream tubs
Angel delight
Semolina

To drink - Tom Collins and Shirley temple

Love this post!

Babysham - was that 70s?

Irish coffee in a glass mug with a huge dollop of whipped cream!

Gotta start with a cocktail (with maraschino cherries & umbrellas)

Harvey Wallbanger
Singapore Sling
Tequlia Sunrise
Tom Collins
Old Fashioned
Brandy Alexander
Pink Lady
Manhattan

My mum used to make the mandarin flan a pp described, but with tinned peaches rather than mandarins. And then it was always served with Dream Topping.

Cheese footballs
Twiglets, of course back then they were a longer length than they are nowadays.

She had some shell in her hair once and she went out to the bin and a gull attacked her, like a Hitchcock film. It was awesome.

😂 😂

Liebfraumilch.