Cooking in the 1970s

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I've been watching Delia Smith cookery shows from the 1970s and some things really stood out so if you were an adult then please enlighten me.
Delia introduces dried beans and lentils as a food of the future because meat is expensive and scarce and we'll all be eating more plant based substitutes. Of course we all know now meat is cheap and not great quality but people eat loads. What was it like in the 1970s?
Also most of her dishes are European-did you cook Indian/Chinese food in the 1970s?
I was born at the end of the 70s and am not ethnically English so always had non English food. I remember my mum making Indian savoury snacks and taking them into an mainly white English primary school and the teachers all excitedly gathering to have a taste of spicy foods.

Tomato aspic was a summertime classic in my house, made from tomato juice simmered with herbs. Served with potato salad and "coldcuts" (ham slices etc.). It was Mom's speciality on a hot day so the oven didn't have to go on.

I made some tomato aspic this past summer and did some reminiscing.

Saw a recipe on the a supermarket free magazine today that sounded like a 70's recipe. In fact it sounds like it was lifted from Hamlyn!

Mince and onion fried until cooked and "crispy". Croutons. Lettuce, tomato, gerkhins or cucumber depending on taste and cheese. I dont know what it would be called in the 70's but in the magazine it was called "Cheeseburger Salad"!