Over 50's club

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Mark J Nov 2023 8:30pm, 16 Nov 2023 1,742 posts	0 Mark J You can't talk 70's pub and chain restaurant meals, without talking prawn cocktails and creme brulee, surely?
3M Nov 2023 9:19pm, 16 Nov 2023 22,621 posts	0 3M That'd be the Berni and Schooner Inn restaurant chains, I expect! First time I ever tasted prawn cocktail (mostly Rose Marie sauce, aka mayonnaise with tomato ketchup!), rump steak, black forest gateaux, and crème brulé. Not necessarily all in the same meal!
Eynsham Red Nov 2023 9:25pm, 16 Nov 2023 10,238 posts	0 Eynsham Red Berni Inns meals. Prawn Cocktail, Steak, Chips & Peas with ice cream or cheese and biscuits, accompanied by a bottle of Mateus Rosé, followed by an Irish coffee
Hanneke Nov 2023 9:31pm, 16 Nov 2023 114,506 posts	0 Hanneke I am glad I moved here in the early nineties, when such food was being abolished 😎
Diogenes Nov 2023 9:41pm, 16 Nov 2023 82,668 posts	0 Diogenes That’s a good sounding meal, although Black Forest Gateau was the dessert du jour, I recall.
riggys99 Nov 2023 9:50pm, 16 Nov 2023 2,692 posts	0 riggys99 Nothing wrong with that meal. Going out on Sunday steak and chips will be consumed.
Eynsham Red Nov 2023 9:54pm, 16 Nov 2023 10,239 posts	0 Eynsham Red That’s a good sounding meal, although Black Forest Gateau was the dessert du jour, I recall. Not in ye olden days of my yoof. BFG is a fairly new innovation 😉
Velociraptor Nov 2023 10:02pm, 16 Nov 2023 66,333 posts	0 Velociraptor Dinner parties with long dresses, things in aspic, Angel Delight topped with Dream Topping, hundreds and thousands and a silver ball in little glass dishes, and cigarettes, ashtrays and toothpicks on the table.
riggys99 Nov 2023 10:04pm, 16 Nov 2023 2,693 posts	0 riggys99 More of a 80s thing but Vienneta anyone but remember one slice is never enough 😁
Rosehip Nov 2023 10:06pm, 16 Nov 2023 30,425 posts	0 Rosehip Nibbles of vol au vents, new flavours of crisps not just salted, Kids parties with pink blancmange, sausages on sticks, pineapple and cheese ‘hedgehogs’