Ideas for retro 80s buffet please

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It will be a cold buffet for 150 people for my birthday. Its 80s fancy dress with bar. I have a v. small budget and no kitchen facilities at venue so has to be cold buffet pre-prepared at home and no arctic roll unfortunately as no freezer!

Ideas to be low cost and easy to go on platters (no individual angel delights in shot glasses or anything).

I'm doing the coctail sticks thing (cheese, pineapple, pickled onion) in hedgehogs and quiche. Any other ideas welcomed.

Thanks

Cocktail sausages
Hula hoops
Party rings

Erm...

My gran was very partial to volauvonts (ooh cannot spell that)!

Fruit salad?
Profiteroles?

Vol au vents with chicken / mushroom in white sauce or prawn cocktail filling
Sausage rolls
Cold cuts or chicken drumsticks, use parsley as a garnish for authentic touch
?

vol au vents with prawn cocktail and coronation chicken
egg mayonnaise (proper, like...halved eggs with dollop of mayo!)
quartered sandwiches
bombay mix
skips, hula hoops.

Those mini cheese biscuits that were all different shapes

twiglets
mini pizzas

Twiglets
Scotch Eggs
Gala Pie

Battenburg!

and Fondant fancies!

(can you tell my frame of reference is birthday parties as a child? )

Thinking back to the buffets my mum & gran used to do:

Ritz crackers with a splodge of Primula on top (the kind that comes in a tube)
peanuts
bowl of salad (lettuce, tomatoes, cucumber) with no salad dressing - maybe some Heinz salad cream
vol-au-vents with prawn cocktail type stuff in them
bread rolls & finger rolls made into open sandwiches with a selection of toppings (ham / liver pate / beef paste)
black forest gateau / vienneta / trifle

oh yes, and my mum never used to reheat the quiche like it says to do on the packet, she'd just dish it up straight from the fridge so that it was nice and stodgy

I'm getting all nostalgic now..

Those blobby marshmallow and coconut cakes!

Open rolls
vol u vents

all whats been suggested really.

Nuts
buttered malt loaf
jelly and ice cream

savoury rice!

fantastic ideas guys! Battenburg!! Yes defo. Ritz crackers with dollop of primular - wow its all taking me back...

picnic - were thay called snowballs - marshmallow balls covered in choc and sprinkled in coconut? Can you still get them?

sweets:

flying saucers

black jacks and fruit salads

strawberry laces

strip to Iceland for stuff

Tunnocks tea cakes
Cubes of cheese on sticks with tinned fruit salad bits (esp. The soggy cherry)
Pink wafer biscuits
Ham platter
Fruit salad sweets, mojos, blackjacks

I am very old and was having parties in the 1980s and this is stuff that I would recognise from the 60s or 70s. We had things like houmus, tzatsiki, tapas, olives, parma ham, goats cheese on buffets. I think that your time zone may need refiguring

Make tin foil hedgehogs to display the cocktail stick things (eg cheese and pineapple). Monster munch, skips and quavers. Iced party ring biscuits?

A blancmange bunny on a bed of line jelly, for grass. With optional raisins to denote its droppings.

Those sponge flans with tinned fruit and quick gel.

Pot noodle
Pop tarts
Ketchips
Alphabites

Party Rings! and YY to skips!