Food and drink

[lizzyd]

What food and drink was popular in the 80s

[ineedahobby]

not sure I understand exactly what you're asking here?

[Ward-Minter]

Tizer and Space Dust. It was a conspiracy on behalf on The British Dental Assoc.

[lizzyd]

I am doing the food and drink for an 80s party and was thinking along the lines of: Orange Juice in glasses; Melon Boats complete with slice of orange and glace cherry for the starters and for the dessert - Balck Forest Gateaux and fresh fruit salad with cream (should be tinned fruit and carnation milk really but yuk!!)  I am struggling for the main course though.  It needs to be buffet style - I suppose it should be roast beef and boiled ham with the traditional salads.  Any ideas much appreciated.

[Ward-Minter]

Weren't Chicken Kievs and Scampi viewed as "posh" in the 80's. Now they are very accessible to the lower classes.

[lindoc]

Also seen at all the best 80s parties: cubes of cheese and pineapple on cocktail sticks and stuck into a half grapefruit, looking a bit like a hedgehog!

[Artemis]

Plus the ubiquitious vol-eu-vent, which are now SO non-you.

[Artemis]

Weren't fondues very IN then?

[brachiopod]

Nah, fondu's were seventies.

However, if Arctic Roll was the desert of the seventies, then Vienneta must be the eighties equivalent !!

[joko]

prawn cocktail was supposed to be fancy then

[shehin]

Wasn't that the 'chicken in a basket' era?

[jamesy boy]

findus crispy pancakes! with crinkle cut chips.

Ideally served while the wrestling is on (Big Daddy vs giant haystacks.)

[joko]

fray bentos and spam - (not together though...although, mmm...)

[spudqueen]

Tinned fruit and carnation milk? Wrong era - that's more 60's and 70's. And chicken in a basket was 70's - so was black forest gateaux. I remember eating chocolate fudge cake (once went on a works Christmas do - and EVERYONE had chocolate fudge cake as dessert - that would be in 1988) and death by chocolate in the 80's. Vienetta is spot on though, very 80's. My mother-in-law used to cut cornettos in half lengthways and put it cut side down on a plate and pipe that squirty cream from a can (you can still get that) round the edge - that was also in the 80's.

A popular buffet meal in the 80's was chilli and jacket potatoes.

If you want to go with all that orange juice in glasses and melon boats then you need to 'do' a different decade - probably 60's in which case yes, salad with roast ham, roast beef and tinned red salmon.

[spudqueen]

just noticed that jamesy boy has got the wrong decade - he's talking 1970's. The drink of the 1980's was beaujoulais (is that spelt right?) nouveau or maybe bucks fizz or bottles of that mexican lager (can't remember the name now) with a wedge of lime in the top.

[spudqueen]

Me again! Avocados were popular in the 80's - eg prawn cocktail in half an avocado. And don't forget the perrier for any non-drinkers/drivers.

[brachiopod]

Spudqueen, I think the Mexican lager was called Ar-Sol or something like that - at least the people who drank it appeared to be. I remember being barred from a 'trendy pub' for asking for a bottle of Guinness with a slice of potato in it. I was heartbroken I must say.

Your 'Jacket potato and chilli' comment reminded me of those Spud-U-Like places - (I still think of Victoria Wood pronouncing it as 'Spud-doo-lickay' in one of her sketches) - they were very 80's. But those must have been before you were made Queen, eh? ;o)

[lizzyd]

Thank you all so much your ideas have been great and given me some food for thought.......... sorry!!

Keep them coming - great one with the prawn cocktail in avacado pears Spudqueen - I'de completely forgotten that.

Thanks Again