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.

apple and banana fritters ( not together) as dessert in Chinese restaurants probably the only batter dish I really liked

Thank you @Cookerhood

I once had , well a few times had, chicken supreme, when camping with school years ago.
I can’t remember if it was out of a giant catering tin, or packets, but it was served on rice, and I loved it. We didn’t have anything like it at home, as my mother was a very plain (awful) cook

I’m here to say that a prawn cocktail starter is not a prawn cocktails starter if it doesn’t come with a couple of triangles of buttered brown bread.

The chocolate cherry muffins are amazing as well

Mutley Plain?😁

Spot on !

Breaded mushrooms as a starter

And prawn coleslaw, it was always v pink

This was my pride and joy back in the day.

Salmon mousse moulded into the shape of a salmon with cucumber slices for scales 😂

Other things missing

Garlic breaded mushrooms
The Olympic breakfast at Little chef

Profiteroles!
Cocktails with curly straws, umbrellas and a cherry
Melon and ham (in a boat shape)
Melon balls
Chicken Kiev
Pate on normal toast with a parsley garnish
Crepe Suzette's
Country vegetable soup
Butter curls with bread rolls

Unsalted caramel.
As a sauce, in a dessert, as an ice cream flavour, whatever but without salt.

Haven't RTFT but the Wolseley has a fab banana split on its menu...

Also a mixed grill!
I used to love Bernie's cocktails for children. Always so exciting. Curly straw, umbrella and a plastic animal perched on the side of the glass.

I was going to say Oslo Court, it's amazing. Also Rules
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oh yes, I miss plain old caramel.

sometimes salted caramel can be nice, but more often than not it manages to be overly sweet as well as acrid.

One of Gordon Ramseys' chains has prawn cocktail on the menu.
I enjoyed it.

Here our tourists are mostly from the North so most of these dishes are available. We're big on fish being coastal so fish and chips is very popular and scampi, whitebait. As for vegans many kitchens here have decided there's no bloody pleasing them anyway. So it's vegetarian with vegan or real cheese. Vegetarian guests being politer.

Eton mess popular, ditto cheeseboard food, ploughman's I see as sharing platters.

Many restaurants have prawn cocktails. I love them. I also love chicken Kiev and eat weekly😂

@Pushmepullu

Hazelnut yogurts. Now there's a blast from the past.
Also ice magic!
And hedgehog flavoured crisps. And curry crisps.

Also the desserts trolley! They used to wheel it round to each table!

Yes to this! Although my recollection is a full spud. I even remember the way they arranged it - long oval plate, 2 half pizzas at each side, spud and coleslaw in the centre and a wee packet of butter.

And the salad bar seemed so posh.

I agree. Inflicting such pain on animals for a non-essential pleasure (and this goes for all including battery farming and other practices) isn’t acceptable

Chicken cordon bleu. If you were feeling fancy!

I remember the dessert trolley but looking back it makes you wonder how long the desserts had been sitting there.

Loved Garfunkels in the 80s, we used to go to the Golders Green one, great burgers.

I miss proper chicken Kiev too, if anyone is familiar with Hungerford there used to be a great little restaurant (near the bridge and river I think) where they served chicken Kiev chips and peas.

I also miss Wimpy especially their brown derby - doughnut with ice cream and chocolate sauce.