1970s Dinner Party Menu
The plan is to have a 1970s dinner party tonight. Our guests are invited and the costumes are ready.
The 70s was a really good decade for music; a really rich ten years for quality and diversity. The iPod is set up with a random playlist of great music from a variety of genres.
We’ve even created a period menu. Note: this has been selected for fun and amusement (and ease of preparation), not to compete with Delia Smith. Of course, if you experienced the seventies, you may recall what a diverse decade it was. You may also remember that the food actually wasn’t that good.
Our 1970s dinner party menu
Hors d’oeuvres
Ritz crackers with pate
Twiglet
Starters
Batchelors cream of tomato soup
Prawn cocktail
Main course
Steak
Chicken in a basket
Sweets
Black forest gateaux
After Eight mints
Drinks
Babycham with a glacé cherry
Party 7
Snowballs with a glacé cherry
Mateus Rosé
This got me to thinking about food and beverage brands that have survived well since the 70s. Babycham is back in shops. After Eights never disappeared. Wine boxes are back on the shelves in Tesco. HP sauce lives on and Daddies is disappearing.
What 70s food and drinks brands would you have at your 1970s dinner party?
Ideas sent to me…
Food
Prawn cocktails
Duck a l’orange
Black Forest Gateaux
Buffet
Cheese sticks on a foil hedgehog
Cocktail sausages
Mini chicken Kievs
Pickled onions
Mixed grill and pineapple
Cheese fondue
Drinks
Snowballs
Singapore Sling
Harvey Wallbanger
Brandy Alexander
French Chablis
German white wineLutomer Riesling
Black Tower wine
Blue Nun wine
Skol lager
Long Life beer
Update 30 August 2019:
I’ve just spotted a page on The Guardian that shows a number of seventies dinner party food dishes in photos. A couple are a little worrying! >> see the evidence (opens in a new tab)
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Anadin was around in the seventies and is still available today.
I forgot to add Dubonnet to the drinks list. Here is a good article on the BBC Magazine about this great drinks brand: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8159201.stm
A slightly posher 70s themed dinner menu:
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French Onion Soup with Cheese Crouton
or
Classic Retro Prawn Cocktail
or
Homemade Ardennes Pâté with Melba Toast
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Coq au Vin
or
Sole Véronique
or
Duck à l’Orange
All served with sauté or duchesse potatoes & seasonal vegetables.
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Homemade Black Forest Gâteau
or
Oranges in Grand Marnier
or
Blackcurrant Syllabub
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