Items that you no longer see on menus.

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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.

half a great fruit with a glacé cherry

Same here, birthdays usually in our best clothes to fancy looking restaurants that gave you an after dinner mint

I still do it now, birthday person chooses the restaurant. My son wanted weatherspoons for his last birthday (he has an eating disorder so will eat their chocolate cake and ice cream) and we turned up in our best clothes including him in his button up shirt and best smart trousers, got a lot of fun y looks lol

Thank you! That doesn't sound like a deviled egg. They are hard-boiled, halved, the yolk removed, and then you mix the yolk with mayo, a bit of sugar, salt, pepper, mustard or whatever you want (there are many recipes out there), spoon or pipe the mixture into the egg half and then sprinkled a bit of paprika on top (I have also seen anchovies used, chives, a piece of pickle, even an olive). The egg can just be picked up and eaten without the filling getting all over you.

Breaded stuffed mushrooms. My favourite starter as a child.

Oh, that sounds really good! Thank you for letting me know they aren't the same.

I had a lemon filled with lemon sorbet from an Indian takeaway in Broxbourne a couple of years ago! Very nice too.

You don't see half as many sun dried tomatoes as you used to.

Got that at a restaurant in Wisconsin. Came with a pair of scissors to cut the cheese, which made it easier to eat!

Oh yes!
A nice fruit pavlova. Not had this since my daughter was 2...... 16 years ago

Here you go. Ice-cream long gone, sadly! 😁

Many of the desserts asked for here are on the dessert trolley at our local Thai restaurant. It is otherwise a fabulous place, great food, wonderful presentation. And then they wheel the little trolley up to you and you can just have anything you want from the trolley spooned onto your plate. And then cream poured all over it. Last time we went they had black forest gateaux, ginger crunch (that one that is sort of like ginger biscuit crumbs under lemon whipped cream), trifle, fruit salad, and pavlova. There is also the lemon shaped lemon sorbet, a coconut shaped thing, and the orange shaped sorbet. We love it there, and it is rammed every night of the week.

As a coeliac, I can tell you that if you miss melon as a starter, just go to a catered event and need a gluten free meal. You get melon a lot. Sometimes if you are really lucky the same melon appears as your pudding too.

Syllabub! It was delicious!

He is my childhood! I need to go out to source one. What flavour ice cream do you get in them?

Omelette's, i love a good omelette especially at lunch time, im veggie unless you eat pasta in the pubs by me your fucked!
Ohh and quiche, on a warm summers day quiche and salad and a glass of wine or a long G and T yum!

The dumping of vegetarian dishes from menus in favour of just vegan ones really pisses me off.
Love a goats cheese tart.

Sticky toffee pudding used to be the ubiquitous pudding, don't see it so much anymore

We were looking through my mum’s really old recipes and she’d actually written out a recipe for ‘melon’. She’s actually a really good cook so god knows why 😂

Love Toby Cottage! A complete blast from the past regarding menu and decor and the most charming staff. bobisbored...you absolutely must go to the Ripley bonfire,it's amazing! I lived in Woking for five years but left for the Middle East in 2014 and we really miss Ripley bonfire.

Don't know if anyone has mentioned it already but you never see Baked Alaska any more, it used to be so popular at wedding receptions back in the 80s

Crepe suzette I think it was called if you went to a fancy restaurant they would cook it all in front of you and like flambé in like I think it was a brandy sauce.

When I was a nipper, I worked the bar at the only posh hotel in town. Restaurant was proper top end, complete with old school maitre d.
Couple came in for a special occasion - but out of their depth when it came to the menu.
Maitre d came to take orders for starters. Grasping for something he recognised, he asked for a prawn cocktail. She said, 'erm. Non alcoholic for me please'.
Old school maitre d suggests orange juice.
Both now feeling at ease they went into the restaurant

What you call shrimps are pretty much the same as our prawns, however, I think you have ketchup on your shrimp cocktail? Whereas ours is a kind of pink sauce made from ketchup & mayo. I got quite a shock when I ordered a shrimp cocktail.

My parents loved a meal out at Biggles. I've not been since about 1988 but I see the menu hasn't changed much 😂. It's in a nice setting, if I remember correctly.

it gets worse they still have a dessert trolley

The sauce on the shrimp cocktails I had when I lived in the US in about 1990 were some sort of tomato (perhaps ketchup) with horseradish in it. I wasn't a fan.

Think it was vanilla. Our kids used to love them - hence the souvenir! 😃

that was my fave i think m and s used to sell one now i cant find it anywhere

it gets worse they still have a dessert trolley

What do you mean, 'worse'?

A nice hotel we used to go to when we had a small child and MIL not only had a dessert trolley, it also had a cheese trolley. DD was quite a fussy eater but loved cheeses, they'd happily serve her beans on toast and then she'd make a sophisticated selection from the cheese trolley.