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it still oughta be! they can keep their fancy gastro pub grub at £17 per main course and £9 per starter/dessert.... steak and chips every time

Sodastream ...

Mol

What about those frozen stuffed pancakes I pigged out on when I first left home...can't remember who made them, but were brilliant with a few frozen peas!

Findus Crispy Pancakes?

I tried them again a year or so ago - minced beef were my favourite as a child - but they weren't the same. I'm sure they were bigger and tasted better in the 70's!

Those'll be the badgers, Deakie. I had the three cheese ones a fair while ago, they didn't want to go crispy without drying out

I bought blue nun wine in the 70s, but not very keen on German wine now. Red wine is my choice now French or South American.

I remember the adverts of the try to convince us that a certian brand of instant mashed potato was good for us. Never had it and never will but the ads are memorable if not the product

>> Typical pub menu of the 70's was Prawn Cocktail followed by Steak and Chips with salad garnish followed by Black Forest Gateaux. <<

Dunno what kind of pubs you had where you lived, but you had to go somewhere posh to get that kind of grub where I lived...like Berni Inn.

RF

How many gateaux?

Pub food? We're back to Chicken in the Basket, aren't we?

Pubs, for me, were a (warm-ish) bottle of pop to be sucked through a soggy paper straw and a packet of crisps. The plain type with a little blue twist of paper inside - which contained the salt.

That was when crisps came in two flavours: 'plain' and the new-fangled 'ready salted'.

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Paper straws! If you were cheap, they were plain white. If you were posh, they had a coloured twirl along them. If you were *really* posh, they had a bend in them...

Mousse - I rmeember it in those round tubs, with the domed base, so you ever got as much as you thought. They *did* come out of the freezer, but we could never be bothered to let them warm up, so it was like rubber ice-cream.

As for your dinner party, don't forget the music - all supplied by Teledisc! On album, or cassette, but not available in the shops. You played them on the music centre, the big wide one with record player on one side, tape deck beside it, and the huge lift up plastic lid.

I'm sure I wasn't imagining it, does anyone else remember an ice lolly released to celebrate the Queen's silver jubilee that was red, white and blue? Something says it was Lyons Maid...

"ice lolly released to celebrate the Queen's silver jubilee that was red, white and blue?"

Presumably this was licensed merchandising?

PP

There was the Zoom ice lolly (this one seems to be arabic) http://petrafood.com/shop/catalog/images/Zoom-Ice-Lolly.gif , and I think they just did a limited edition of it in red white & blue.

RF

Ice lolly? That's how they're smuggling Saddam's supergun into Baghdad.

We used to have a ploughman's lunch when we visited the pub.

We had the mousses too, but I preferred the caramel dessert with cream on top (still available in all good supermarkets).

I can also remember when yoghurt was a new and exciting product (prior to that, you could only get 'drinking yoghurt'). Mum used to buy one large tub a week, and we had it served in bowls for pudding on a Saturday. It was always great fun, finding out what the flavour was each week.

And 'fresh' fruit juice came in large tins - not cartons.

Raspberries and blackberries came free from the garden. Even now I can't bring myself to pay good money for them.

Mol

Raspberries and blackberries were picked from well known local spots where I lived. We had a large strawberry patch and currant bushes at home

Campbells meatballs seemed to feature in my 70s diet.

A friend thought I was for choosing yoghurt over ice cream when I went to tea

There used to be a 'fresh' fruit drink that came in powdered form and yo had to 'refresh' it with water. I think it was made by McVities. (My dad was delivery driver at the time and used to bring it home from the shop along with Penguin mishapes)