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.

Exactly this!

I used to love the veggie meals. Mushroom risotto, macaroni cheese, veggie curries etc.

It's all disgusting meat substitutes now 🤢

I'm cheating here butI really miss mandarin full fat yogurts.

More of a greasy spoon menu, but liver and bacon. I used to love that! (Waiting for the hate😁)

Oh, also Florida Cocktail. That was tinned mandarins and grapefruit segments 😁

I miss Pizzaland. Lovely thin crust pizzas, none of your stodgy doughy stuff. Plus Caesar's Palace in Liverpool, such a chavvy place, but the food was plentiful and tasted good, and such "exotic" decor. I think it was closed down because all its staff were cash in hand illegal immigrants, of the sort that built most cities, if you think about it.

ABSOLUTELY, I miss them and ice cream Sundaes.

A couple of ice cream scoops doesn't cut it. Where is the artistry?

Chickee in der baskee! Did anything else come in a basket? Was the basket edible?

I remember rubbery Camembert, deep fried and served with jam, in the 90s. Don’t miss it.

Spaghetti cheese, on the other hand…

Oh I had forgotten all about that delicacy

I can't recall a Fatty Arbuckles but DH and I were doing some motorway driving recently and we were reminiscing about the 'Happy Eater' chain of motorway service restaurants.

Burger King used to do a proper vegetable bean burger in the 1980s. I still miss it.

I can only find ones now in supermarkets with curry/spicy favouring now which is both unnecessary and nowhere near as nice

Duck a l'orange was the height of sophistication in the 70's

I miss pate and Melba toast as a starter.
Garlic mushrooms in port and stilton sauce
black forest gateaux

I had rice pudding at a local restaurant the other week. It had a splodge of cherry jam
In the middle! It was gorgeous

Eton Mess is my absolute favourite dessert, I always order it if it's on the menu. 😋

So many of these I still cook/prepare at home. Liver & onions, avocado & prawns, coq au vin, etc

I remember a joke I heard on TV yonks ago.

Comedian reading from a postcard : -
"I'm sorry about your husband Mrs. Jones, but coq au vin is usually made with chicken. "

Not RTFT so might be copies

Peach Melba
Alaska Pudding
Chicken in a Basket
Coq au van (no idea how to spell it)

Crush's milkshakes 😍

duck a l'orange and whitebait are 2 which were v popular in the pub I waitressed in during the late 1980s. I also remember sausage or chicken and chips in a real basket.

Chickee in der baskee! Did anything else come in a basket? Was the basket edible?

Scampi, and no.

*Crusha

Orange juice used to come in massive tins in the early / mid 70s, we used to have a small glass as a starter at home on Christmas Day. I loved it.

Aldi do a really nice one, non spicy too

A cafe near me does them they're great and it's amazingly nostalgic

Am ice cream in Indian restaurants that came in a plastic penguin head.

Black Forest gateau is not a complicated recipe – it is basically just a chocolate sponge with a cherry and cream filling and coated with cream – but it is quite technical because you have to cut the sponge into three layers without breaking them and then build them up again, and smooth cream all over the thing. It must have seemed very decadent in the 1960s with its extravagant use of cream and – gasp! – alcohol!

(No, I have never made one despite my username)

You could get this in Cafe Rouge a few years ago (our cafe rouge has since closed).

We've had onion soup and duck with orange sauce at one quite recently.

Whitebait is still widely available.