What party food do you wish would make a comeback?

[lovingllamaa]

AIBU to miss old school party food?
I would love to turn up at a party and for them to be serving cheese and pineapple on cocktail sticks.
Anything else anyone misses?

Ooh this is making me hungry!! So many of these I adore... twiglets were the best.

We used to squeeze primula cheese and chive down a sticks of celery. Another one was to take a huge thick slice of ham, spread soft cheese all over and roll up with a spring onion in the middle and cut into pinwheels.

Mint Vienetta when the chocolate was so thick a heated knife was required. Yum!

Top hats

Tuna vol au vonts or that tinned chicken in them

Little chopped up celery sticks with squeezy cheese squeezed into them. Mmm. Classic 70' s party food.

Prawn cocktail vol au vents
Celery with primula cheese squeezed in it cut up
Cheese with pineapple at the bottom and cocktail onion on top.

We used to have hotdog, cheese and pineapple on sticks. Loved it.

Crab sticks too. I hardly ever see those now.

I miss vol-au-vents too and like a pp was dismayed to find they’re like hens’ teeth in the shops these days.

Please would someone explain the coin in a scone thing?!

Iced Gems

Still do the grapefruit hedgehogs. Mix of cheese, silverskin onions, pineapple and tinned ham on sticks.

Also the Davis gelatine recipes. Tuna and pineapple mousse anyone?

The rectangular biscuits with marshmallow piped on in two strips with jam down the middle and sprinkled with desiccated coconut! I did recently find these in B&m and they were as good as I remembered!

Iced Gems, party rings, sausages on sticks, egg and cress sandwiches, marmite pinwheels, twiglets, Bombay mix, Cadbury’s Swiss rolls, meringues sandwiched with cream, tinned salmon sandwiches, sardine pate, Welsh rarebit, a giant Stilton, knickerbocker glories, coke floats, endless plastic cups of sugary pop, cola cubes, eggs florentine.

Anything beige buffet. Especially a tinfoil hedgehog with cheese on sticks as the prickles!

Brandy snaps stuffed with cream. Even better when the cream had been whipped with brandy.

@QuestionableMouse We love crab sticks and get them in the weekly shop, they are still sold in most supermarkets but they're not allowed to call them Crab sticks. In the last five years I've not found anyone outside my house who can stand them

Sausage rolls.

Mum always used to make cream puffs for events then passive-aggressively over fill them so they would spill whipped cream over the biters clothes.

Iced Vo-Vos?

Mini vol-au-vents, devils on horseback, warm quiche squares, salmon sandwich fingers, mmmm!

@BrightYellowDaffodil I’ve got some animal biscuits in the cupboard haha! B&M, get your fill 😂

@gratitudegoddess Crawford's cheese savouries are yum. Always get a bag when I visit the local garden centre.

Looks like only me with the scone coin combo 😀. No idea why. It was always at kids’ parties back in the 70s. Maybe specific to the area I’m from.

Pink panther wafers, sweetie necklaces, jelly and ice cream

We always had strawberry jelly and ice cream, and also blancmange which I hated.

I was born in early 80s. I miss those big chocolate or strawberry rabbits made in a jelly.mould shaped like a rabbit

Little iced cakes with cherries on top

[quote lilmishap]@QuestionableMouse We love crab sticks and get them in the weekly shop, they are still sold in most supermarkets but they're not allowed to call them Crab sticks. In the last five years I've not found anyone outside my house who can stand them [/quote]
Why can't they be called Crab sticks. Are they not 100% crab? A few weeks ago I fancied some Scampi from aldi and was in a hurry. I picked up a bag of what i assumed was scampi, it had S campi Bites on the packet. Little did I know that scamp bites are a mix of cod, other fish and prawn...!

That's exactly it. They're Seafood Sticks now which is the equivalent of sea sausages!!