1960s food and drink?

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I'm hosting a 1960s themed Nye party. What kind of party food and drink should I serve?
Did they have twiglets in the 60s?😀

Devilled eggs
volauvents (spelling?)
cheese and pineapple hedgehog
prawn cocktail
pinwheel sandwiches
Sausages on sticks
Black Forest gateaux
Arctic roll
Angel delights with dream topping

Oh yes cream cheese used to come from the deli counter, not from a branded plastic box. Now that's a memory.

60s drinks parties might have had Cherry B, Pony and we always had a bottle of Warnink's Advocaat for making snowballs, a bottle of maraschino cherries and tub of lemon slices.

Oh the sophistication ...😁

Do the stuffed haddock with appropriate garnishing!

Wasn't there something called polony as well?

I'm pretty sure my mum used to buy it. It was a fat sausage shape, smooth texture and in a tight red plastic covering sealed at both ends.

That sounds like bologna, pronounced baloney.

In a block! Or am I dreaming now

No it's polony I found it on Morrisons website a few posts down! I did think Bologna to begin with

Maybe this ditty could provide some inspiration:

'Lime jello marshmallow cottage cheese surprise'.

Solid, not whipped cream cheese is sold in foil-wrapped blocks in the US. There's Philadelphia brand and several others.

I believe they're pretty much the same thing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bologna_sausage

No. I remember polony too. That's what it was called.

@ChristmasJ I bought some cheesy footballs for DH a couple of years back after years of not being able to find them - they had changed the recipe and were horrible .

Prawn cocktail, steak and chips, black forest gateau. Sorted.

I don't remember the deli cream cheese coming in solid blocks it was scooped out of big plastic containers. I have no recollection if Philly as a child.

Yes. I think it was scooped put, weighed and put into a waxed cardboard tub. From Ginger's the delicatessen. I can taste it now although I haven't had it for over 50 years.

Scooped out.

That was how it was done Captain. I bet you remember olive oil coming from the pharmacy too. In a very small bottle.

I'm reliably informed that cheese (cheddar) and walnuts on sticks were a 'thing' at parties in the 60s. Also cheese straws.

I remember seeing that in our medicine cabinet and I'm pretty sure my dad used it in when he had a build up of wax that blocked his ear up. It softened it so it could be removed. Yuk!! 😱

Sorry OP but why? The food was awful!

I have two sponge flan tins in my cupboard which I do use very occasionally. Filled with tinned fruit or fresh berries and jelly. I remember making a couple in 1967 to take as a contribution to our school Christmas party. In the 1980s it was a standard recipe we taught pupils to make in Home Economics lessons.
Yes, salads were elaborate affairs, arranged flat on big plates. Sliced hard boiled eggs,(I still have an egg slicer), beetroot, cucumber, rings of tomato etc.
I made beef olives at school in 1969 but have never made them since. Nice though.
I only recently chucked out my school recipe folder that was given out when I started Grammar School in 1968. A series of recipes run off on a banda machine. Cheese soufflé, quiche Lorraine, chicken fricasee, white vegetable soup, Dutch apple tart, scotch eggs, (haven’t made these for at least thirty years, having got rid of my deep fat fryer), Russian fish pie. Puff pastry casing with white fish in a sauce inside. Generally not a lot of fresh meat recipes.
I agree with others, lots of tinned meat and fish paste sandwiches. Fortunately my mum could cook so for home dinners she would make fruit pies, steak and kidney pie or pudding, milk puddings, though I hated tabioca! Baked egg custard was nice with nutmeg sprinkled on top.

Yes, it was called polony, but I think baloney and poloney only have one letter separating them and they are the same rather pungent sausage.

Don't know if anyone has mentioned the venerable Jam roly poly.

Spotted dick

I didn't know anything about 60s food before but it sounds absolutely awful!