Items that you no longer see on menus.

[DeathAndParsnips]

Which foods do you rarely see on menus now? I was watching some old adverts on YouTube for Little Chef and such which made me think of this.

Do you still get melon as a starter? I used to love that as a child. Also a glass of orange juice as a starter. I went to a hotel in around 2010 and they still had that as an option on the menu. I found it rather charming.

I used to love Black Forest gateau but you don’t see it anymore. My bil and sil had it at their wedding last year and it was fantastic!

Half an avocado filled with prawns Marie Rose, which I remember finding incredibly exciting and exotic as a child in the mid-80s.

Those puddings that were like an inverted trifle. They came in all sorts of flavours and were delicious!

A while of Googling tells me it's a Charlotte Russe

Prawn cocktail

A pub near me has one on its menu. Naturally it's not called a Prawn Cocktail but that is in fact what it is.

Knickerbocker glory

I really miss Bombay duck in Indian restaurants. I'm sure I read somewhere that it had been banned...

Banana split

I loved Knickerbocker glories and prawn cocktails. I still buy prawn cocktails.

I'm adding banana splits to the list. I still love those.

Egg Mayonnaise as a starter. Friend had it at her wedding in the late 90s and it was retro then. With a wee sprinkle of paprika.

Loaded potato skins 😋

Those on a Berni Inn or Harvester sharing platter to start - onion rings, garlic mushrooms, loaded (crispy) potato skins, and chicken wings.

A lemon filled with lemon sorbet

You need to come to the algarve. You can get all of the above there all year round. I had a banana split just last night and it had a sparkler as well 🤗

We've often had those in Spain & they sell them in Costco (or certainly did about 5 years ago).
Love a prawn cocktail. I buy them from the supermarket & put them in half an avocado.

Aw my late Mum used to do this as a starter when she had a dinner party, early-late 90s. We thought it was the height of sophistication as kids 🤣Properly arranged with a fancy salad bed 🤣

Trout with almonds
Coq au vin
Trifle

Things in aspic.

Half a grapefruit

And tomato juice as a starter.

Came on to say egg mayo with paprika as a starter. I used to waitress at a masonic lodge in the mids 00s and it was often on the menu. I used to love eating any extras

Also love a black forest gateau and melon and Parma ham. Whitebait as a starter too

With half a glace cherry on the top!

red onion and goats cheese tart.

cos of the ditching of veggie classics for new fangled vegan dishes.

Melon wrapped in parma ham.

Coconut ice cream in a coconut shell 🥥 Although Lidl had some of these in a few years ago and I absolutely maxed out on them.

Chicken in a basket