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.

The thing is with the orange juice as a starter, it came in a tiny glass when as it was so delich you wanted a bucket of the stuff. Flipping lovely and today OJ isn’t the same.

Duck a L'orange. Not seen that for years.

Brandy Snaps !! Decent size, filled with fresh cream, maybe a little kirsch and a black cherry stuffed in each end.

As a pp mentioned, the recipe book" The Prawn Cocktail Years" by Simon Hopkinson and Lindsay Bareham offers really good recipes for all these well loved retro classics. Even chicken Maryland!

I also want to say that some kind of ball of rugged potato or breadcrumbs (or maybe both) rolled around grated cheese and then deep fried. A cross between scampi and a scotch egg, but filled with cheese. Very salty as I remember.

For those who love black forest gateaux www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/patisserie-valerie-black-forest-slice

Chocolate fudge cake - it’s all brownies these days.
Lemon meringue
Sherry trifle

We have just moved to Ripley and keep meaning to try this place!

Baked Alaska though it's always been available on any cruise I've been on.

Bavrois
Croqeumbouche
Lemon posset
Egg mayonnaise with two slivers of anchovies criss-crossed on them

Ooh I love that. Sadly missed.

Beef stroganoff

Punky!

Grasshopper pie
Mississippi mud pie

Punky’s are very much still available in Indian Restaurants.

My grandad loved it! I hope it's still on the menu in the great beyond

Rumbaba

Cheese board with crackers grapes and celery ! I miss that so much loaded potatoes skins cheese and bacon !!

You can get a delicious knickerbocker glory at Fortnum & Masons ice cream parlour.

I occasionally make this for DS, who gets nostalgic sometimes!

I yearn to see Floating Islands on a menu again - dessert of the gods.

Have a stay on an nhs ward. Orange juice starters all round 😁

Seafood pizza Pizza Hut!

That's true @VeloVixen, I enjoyed my juice starters both times I gave birth

Pavlova- I thought it was so exotic as a child

After watching the 70’s supermarket the other week I bought Artic roll, brought back a few memories 😃

still love prawn cocktail, chicken Kiev and Black Forest gateau (my sister and I had that every year as our birthday cake)

Punky!