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.

love shrimp cocktail only thing i can make myself

There's an Ice cream Parlour in Conwy. You buy the novelty cups, they fill it with any ice-cream you want and you choose any sprinkles you want. The grandchildren love it there

I had an amazing one in a pub in Knaresborough recently. I love a ploughman's.

Love a sweet trolley.

There is a fish and chip restaurant in Cleethorpes that serves Knickerbocker glory and jam Roly poly...
Also has the best fish and chips!! 😋

Grasshopper pie

Yes absolutely agree with this. I appreciate the extra choices that are now available, but it's annoying when the only options on a menu are meat or vegan options

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I have an real 70’s recipe for Black Forest Gateau that includes the hazelnut base and many hours of work !!
If you wait until the morning I can find the book and I’ll load it into here
its amazing. it’s not easy. it’s worth it !

Parisellas??

It was Duck with Orange, Duck with Cherry or Duck Surprise....when asked what the surprise what Basil answered 'its Duck without orange or cherries' 😁😉

I think it would be more that we would call the shrimps used in shrimp cocktail king prawns - the prawns we use in prawn cocktail are usually smaller. And conversely our shrimps are tiny!

Thanks - I'll look out for it.

And taramasalata is still a staple on the menu in Greek restaurants too!

Yes👌

@Whenwillglorioussummercome yes, I imagine it is !

In the 80s, the company launched a new toilet roll. They hired a suite at the Dorchester. Park Lane, and I had the terrible job of operating the AV equipment, ie pressing the buttons on the slide projector, playing the video of the advert, talking to the buyers from major supermarkets and made sure they always had a drink. The chef was Anton Mosimann, one of the drivers of Nouvelle Cuisine. His dinners were beautifully presented, but tiny. His lunch grill room was fabulous. Lambs liver and onions with mash and gravy. It was absolutely delicious. And someone else was oayingwhich made it even better.

I still make liver and bacon. I love it.

Who remembers this bible?

Heinz tomato soup as a starter or orange juice/ pate and toast / melon / creamy mushrooms,
this was often the choice of starters we had.
we definitely ate a lot less calories in the 70’s and 80’s

Pizzaland
two slices of pizza, a baked potato and coleslaw. It was the best.

Brown Derby a big ring donut (well everything seemed bigger in those days!😉) vanilla ice cream chocolate syrup and crushed nuts.

The family business was producing gateaux’s and other desserts in the 70s and 80’s for restaurants, pubs, different venues remember the dinner and dance cabaret clubs? There were thousands of gateaux’s sent out every week.
The best sellers were of course the black forest, followed by the strawberry and then coffee and mandarin, and pineapple and chocolate. I think there were about 30 different types but the black forest always reigned supreme.
24 portions all beautifully presented and no automated machinery all decorated by hand. Then packaged up and went into the “blast freezer”.
Good days, but trends move on, which is a shame. Unfortunately cheesecake killed the gateaux, rip Black Forest.

Creme brûlée. Can never find it anywhere!

Pavlovas also hard to find too

Pavlovas are on a lot of menus in Ireland, very popular over here.

I have that book, one of my most used cookery books until I joined Slimming World 😂

It’s surprisingly hard, in London at least, to find T-bone steak. Everywhere that used to have T-bone now has ribeye instead. Haven’t seen T-bone for 4 years or so.
Also steak and kidney pudding. Rare to find it (though I notice it’s in Wetherspoons latest menu—sorry, I guess I have lost caste by admitting I have been in a Wetherspoons) or in fact any suet puddings at all.