1960's food

[sbinc]

What are the popular foods at that time as appetizers and non alcoholic drinks?

[ruby27]

This might be a bit too much 70's but I do recall in the late 60's
vol u vonts (sp), with mushroom or chicken in creamy sauce, small sausage rolls, curried eggs, cheese and pineapple on sticks - nothing to exciting or tasty

and non alcoholic drinks were fruit juices

[Hu Flung Dun]

Our pineapple and cheese on sticks were always stuck into an orange covered with tinfoil.

[maxi2]

Appetisers - cheese footballs, prawn cocktail, pickled walnuts, brown windsor soup.

Non alcoholic drinks - Corona, Tizer and Jusoda. And of course the Jubbly!

[Longwinded]

The daring hostess put pickled silverskin onions (still sold - as Cocktail Onions) with the cheese and pineapple on sticks. Shop-bought nibbles included Ritz Crackers, Mini-Chips, little cheese biscuits in the shape of playing card symbols (hearts, clubs, diamonds, spades).

A fiddly home-made appetizer was stuffed eggs - cut hard-boiled eggs in half, scoop out the yolks, mix with salad cream, mayonnaise, fish paste, pate, or whatever and pipe back into the whites.

Pepsi was a popular (and at the time fairly novel) non-alcoholic drink. Any sort of cordial (especially lime) or squash (orange, lemon barley, etc) - sarsaparilla was more widely available than it is now.

[mrs_overall]

i can remember going with my parents to a posh persons house and amongst the nibbles were:
Philadelphia cheese rolled into balls and then rolled in crushed walnuts
Sausages wrapped in bacon
Devils on horseback - oysters wrapped in bacon
Cheese fondue
I was given a posh soft drink - a glass of lemonade with a cocktail cherry on a stick in it.

[Jugglering]

I have a 1964 (very yellowed) Marguerite Patten "500 Recipes for Meals without Meat" - it cost 2' 6d and has such wonderful delights as Blue Cheese Crisps, Cream Cheese Puffs , Mexican Cheese Balls, Avocado-Roquefort Dip, Onion Soup Dip, Vol au vents (and assorted sauces to fill them with) and devilled eggs. If you want any of the recipes, just shout - some of them aren't too bad as Mrs Patten was quite adventurous for those days...

[Bewlay Bros]

Sasparilla. I believe you can still buy bottles of it.

And trifles became very popular in the 60's too.

[beagle1]

Vimto, a sort of fizzy fruit drink, and Coca Cola for us nippers; bitter lemon, tonic water and ginger ale, for the really sophisticated adults, not all in the same glass.

Cheese footballs, twiglets, and cheese and pineapple on sticks. Vol au vents also featured pretty big on the grown up party circuit.