What food can you remember from the 1970s and 1980s? Bring your crepe suzette memories over here!

[TheStroppyFeminist]

We are cooking deep fried brie tonight, which we will have with cranberry sauce. We are following it with brandy snaps filled with cream. Lovely but very fattening and very 1980s restaurant style. I know it was mainly wedges of deep fried camembert in the 80s though.

Other dishes I remember:

Steak Diane, flambeed at the table with a French mustard sauce
Crepes suzette, also flambeed at the table, with grand Marnier, which was an orange liqueur, urgh!
Tornedos Rossini, which was fillet steak with pate on top IIRC
Cockles cooked in a French mustard sauce
Sole Veronique, which had green grapes in the sauce
Egg mayonnaise, which was hard boiled eggs, cut in half with mayo and paprika on top

What other delights were there? Most of these are my memories of restaurant food bur I also remember butterscotch Angel Delight and the disgustingness that was blancmange!

Ice magic! We used to have it on Artic roll.
The E numbers in that lot must have been off the scale.

I don't think anyone has mentioned fondue. That lovely little bowl of enriched cheesy sauce on a burner stand and two-pronged forks that people used to stab little pieces of meat/bread/vegetables with then let them 'cook' in that boiling sauce before eating it...

I am sad enough that I found an authentic fondue set in a charity shop a long time ago and now don't quite know what to do with it!

I think it was pecan danish actually? Unless she made both of course.
Delicious!

My first husband loved Vienetta, especially the mint one.

Fondue parties! All the rage at one time 😂

I still buy the tinned ham usually at Christmas still.

Our favourite treat on Shopping night was a "Lovely". Pot of frozen chocolate - not mousse - with a whip of cream on the top. I wish we could still buy them.

How about waiting until a nice cold winter evening and making a fondue? I still love cheese fondue, but usually eat it in France. It's just a mix of melted cheese and white wine and some garlic.

Hot dogs for 1shilling and six pence or fish and chips at 2shillings and six pence , faggots and peas in gravy , and so on

And, do I dare mention "Berni Inn"? Black forest gateau, half a chicken in some sauce. Prawn cocktail?

Findus crispy pancakes (my mum used to put them with things like peas, carrots and ketchup!)

Prawn cocktail
Trifle with those long biscuit fingers in them and sprinkles on the top.
Black forest gateau
White iced fruitcake for birthdays
Chicken chasseur

OH MY....GET OUT OF HERE!!!
I was just coming on to ask if anyone remembers these!!
They were my favourite... I remember the advert with Wendy Craig being carried off by a sheik in a tent, and turning her face to the camera and saying, ' ah...lovely'
(Or have I imagined that?!)
On the nights our mum worked, she would leave enough money for me and my sis to go and buy tea, which was always a German sausage, a tin of Heinz vegetable salad and a Lovely.

Hamwiches. Not sure my grandma ever fed me
anything else

The other Vesta meal was beef risotto, it was my late husband's favourite.

Ainsleys ginger buns (a Yorkshire thing)
tinned fruit cocktail
vienetta
potted meat (sandwiches)

Faggots and peas in gravy

I loved those

On Sundays at tea time, we often had a version of salad which was usually, cucumber, tomato, maybe spring onions and beetroot. We either had tinned salmon (which I hated and still do), corned beef from the tin, luncheon meat or Ye Olde Oak ham, also tinned. Pickled onions and Heinz salad cream also.

My favourite part of this was mum would get little tins of Heinz Vegetable Salad and Potato Salad. Sadly, they only came in small tins and between five of us at the table, I never really got enough.

I'm not sure if you can still get them but I've never seen them anywhere.

Coffee Angel Delight. God it was good

Wow, coffee flavour, I really don't remember that at all. I'd love that!

Tinned fruit cocktail. With one single sad fucking cherry in there. We'd have it with a splash of evaporated milk for some reason.

Findus crispy pancakes.

Chips, chips and more chips. Cooked in lard. Except my mum would peel the chips and put them in the cold lard then heat it up. They were revolting.

Most of what we had was potato based. Spuds were cheap and easy and mum did not like to cook!

Frey bentos tinned pies with the burnt to a crisp top layer then loads of soggy pastry then a pitiful layer of mystery meat.

Corned beef hash.

Beef paste sandwiches.

We used to get a lovely meal on a Saturday when we visited our grandparents. Sometimes we'd get plaice, sometimes cottage pie. Sometimes in summer we'd get to have a salad. Grandad used to come pick us up and we could smell it on him (except when it was salad 😁). It was great.

10p mix from the shops. 2 chews for half a penny.

@spoonbillstretford ice magic was the bomb 😍

I went to a party with a posh new boyfriend. We arrived early and of course the hostess declined all offers of help. She'd put on a lovely spread and when we arrived, had just taken these pastries out of the oven. "Help yourself to some food" she said, as she went back to the kitchen - so I did. I'd never tasted anything so delicious. Then she came back with a saucepan - and there were hardly any vol au vent cases left for her mushroom filling to go into. Took years for me to live that down.

It’s the special occasion and party food that really makes me nostalgic. Vol au vents filled with Chunky Chicken, Creamed Mushrooms or Prawn Cocktail were a staple. So so good. Chunky Chicken wasn’t so much chunky as stringy but it always felt special.

My Mum used to make something called Hot Chicken Salad, made with cooked chicken, green peppers, tomatoes, onions, Campbells Condensed Mushroom Soup and Mayonnaise. The first time I’d ever seen a green pepper up close. Bubbly hot and topped with a mixture of grated cheese and crushed crisps and then grilled to melt the cheese. I can feel my arteries hardening just thinking about it.

My Nana used to get huge tins of Mussels, they were Danish and in brine rather than vinegar. The whole family loved them and there was always a bowl on a party buffet.

My Mum’s trifle was a seventies convenience fest of jam swiss roll, topped with tinned strawberries, sherry, a strawberry jelly made with the “juice” from the strawberry tin, Ambrosia Devon Custard and Dream Topping (although I think she made the switch to whipped cream in the 80s). We eat next to no processed food these days but if she was here to knock me up a trifle I’d be a very happy MB.

Those Ainsley's ginger buns were gorgeous. I remember them from the late 70s. Where they tall and round, almost cylindrical? Their custard slices were terrific too.

Found this picture of BirdsEye desserts on Pinterest. May stir some memories!

I can't remember if we ever had tinned salad (what a ludicrous concept that seems now!) but my Mum used to buy little pots of something called Russian Salad or Florida Salad from M&S in the late 1970s. The Florida Salad had mandarin segments in it. The so called Russian Salad looked a bit like vomit (chopped carrot and potato) but tasted OK.

Our family made the switch from Heinz salad cream to Hellmann's mayonnaise at some point in the late 1970s or very early 1980s. Possibly linked to Hellmann's extensive and quite funny advertising at Christmas time.

Sandwich spread - Heinz still make this. Loved it in an egg sandwich.