Retro food

Posted by: Roy T on 29 August 2004

The Prawn Cocktail started me thinking about the food of the lateish 70's and from what I can remember a Saturday night out might be something like this:

A starter:
Chilled Melon
Egg Florentine
French Onion Soup
Homemade Rough Farmhouse Pate
Prawn Cocktail

Main Course:
Beef Stroganoff
Chicken in a Basket
Chicken Kiev
Duck a la Orange
Trout with Almonds
Vegetarian Quiche

Vegetables:
Glazed baby Carrots, , Brown Rice, Chips (can't remember too much about veg)

From the sweet trolly:
Apple Pie & Ice Cream
Cheesecake & Ice Cream
Hot Chocolate Sundae
Knickerbocker Glory

From the bar:
Black Tower
Blue Nun
Hirondelle
Mateus Rose
Double Diamond
Watneys Red
White Shield

Anyone else got any ideas?

Roy T
Posted on: 30 August 2004 by Berlin Fritz
quote:
Originally posted by Hawk:
and wasnt the curlywurly a 70's invention? back then there was no way you could bite through one without all the chocolate falling off in the process onto the seat of your dads mk3 cortina, oh how that made him laugh!?
Sweets today are soft!


I ended up looking like Terry Scott !
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by BLT
My youngest brother was a great fan of Not Foodles, he always used to tuck in to the chicken curry saying "Ah, the true taste of the Orient"
Does anyone remember Cambell's Meat Balls and the tinned Goblin Burgers? Both appeared to have been made from meat rejected by Pedigree Chum.
As far as sweets go, the worst for shedding its chocolate coating was the mighty Texan bar.
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by Berlin Fritz
An early girlfriend of mine was very fond of walnut whips, the fings we could do together with a couple of those ?


Fritz Von There'sorangey Big Grin
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by Steve B
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Steve B
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by Roy T
"A finger of fudge is just enough to give your kids a treat ". . you don't often hear that advert on the box these days then again I think the Flake adverts have pushed into a post-watershed slot Wink
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by JonR
Eggy Soldiers

Talking of ads, a trivia question for you:-

Who invented the slogan: "A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play" ?

[If you don't get this you will be time-warped back to the 70's until you can work it out!]

Regards,

JonR Big Grin
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by matthewr
Murray Walker.
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by JonR
Well done!
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by Kevin-W
OK, who wrote

"Naughty but nice" (fresh creamm cakes)?

and who wrote

"Go to work on an egg" (Egg MMarketing Bureau)?

Kevin
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by Roy T
om,
Brown or white vinegar with you grub up North?
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by Roy T
Was it Fay Weldon and her friend Salman Rushdie?
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by TomK
What about Cremola Foam (it foams and fizzes, fizzes and foams). Like Andrews Liver Salts with fruit flavouring. Mmmmmmmmm. Absolute nectar for a kid and I imagine very popular with dentists too, until it disappeared several years ago.

Apparently somebody's trying to bring it back on the market but as the original recipe has been lost they're looking for some of the stuff to analyse. So far they've managed to lay their hands on some ten year old stuff a woman found lying at the back of one of her kitchen cupboards and they're using that. Can hardly wait.
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by 7V
quote:
Originally posted by Roy T:
... then again I think the Flake adverts have pushed into a post-watershed slot Wink

I'm gob-smacked to discover that you guys haven't heard that the "Cadbury's Flake Girl" adverts have been dropped by their advertising agency and replaced by the totally naff new "Your happiness loves Cadbury" campaign.

Article in Times Online

Incidentally, it may interest you to know that (according to Cadbury's web site) ...

(Flake is) a true chocolate indulgence, its crumbly texture means that it forces you to stop what you are doing and devote your full attention to eating it.

Steve Margolis
defy convention - make music
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by Nigel Cavendish
You can still get Vesta curries and the like in Sainsburys.

I used to add half the recommended amount of water in the curry to get a nice(?) thick sauce.

cheers

Nigel

Posted on: 31 August 2004 by Kevin-W
quote:
Originally posted by Roy T:
Was it Fay Weldon and her friend Salman Rushdie?


Roy, indeed it was. Best thing Rushdie ever wrote, methinks...

Kevin

PS - My big cousin Carole was a Flake girl in the early 1970s, fact fans (I think she was in a rowing boat). She's now in her mid 50s and still stunningly beautiful.
Posted on: 31 August 2004 by Berlin Fritz
Swiis roll and custard was always good in the second half of the month, though you could spout of about yer cobblers and sound like our Willi Jefferson rantin on of old ?


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