Tonight I’ve organised a light hearted 70’s themed dinner party. Not all the guests remember the 70’s so I’ve paired the menu down to:
Starters- Prawn Cocktail
Main- Scampi & Chips in a basket with marrow fat peas, tarter sauce.
Pudding- profiteroles or creme caramel or Angel Delight (butterscotch)
Wine- Lambrusco

Music- a selection of 70’s Groove Tunes

Anything you think I should add/change ?

TVM

Frozen peas, not marrowfat.
How about a beef or fish Wellington?
Wine: Yugoslave Lutomer Riesling or Bulgarian red.

I thought that Angel Delight was a late 60s thing, but unsure. It certainly wasn’t a dinner-party food, it was a last minute get stuff on the table for the kids pud.

A bowl for car keys.
Horrendous wall paper in brown and orange.
Tv with a tuner as opposed to preset channels.
Bad hair.
Nylon covered furniture.
Bass, bottled mild and some Babycham.

Don’t forget the air of quiet desperation…..

Artic roll for pud.

I think Moses is missing the point.

Fondue set
Babycham
Tennants

Ha ha! Sounds great! Black Forest gateau FTW! 😆

Croft Original.

Snowball the drink of course

Bottle of Advocat

Black forest Gateaux and Advocat are great shouts

manadirt beat me to it- got to be BFG for dessert.

everyone should smoke woodbines or park drive, at the table

Ferrero Rocher – still consumed in some parts of the country, I’m told.

As long as you’ve got Demis Roussos on repeat, you’ll be fine.

Near Leeds? Complete with Silk Cut & B&H water jugs 🙂

Matchmakers with the coffee?
I remember a lot of Maryland chicken & Osso Buco. Also reminded me that I found a tin of Watneys’ Party seven rotting in the cellar a few years back.

A mini ramp?

Partway through, switch all the electricity off and reappear with candles.

Have you got the Watneys Party Seven in.

You can still get it, apparently.

All served on a hostess trolley

You’re not really trying unless you serve Liebfraumilch

Baked alaska!

Blue Nun or Black Tower to drink.

Vile stuff but arguably brought wine to the attention of us little Englanders.

As pictured up there, a showing of Abigail’s Party will help set the scene.

Mateus rose and a Vesta curry would hit the spot, Gary Glitter on the turntable of course 😯

you need to knock a whole through the wall between the kitchen and the dining room so you have a serving hatch

Ferrero Rocher – still consumed in some parts of the country, I’m told.

After Eight mints for the seventies I think

Crepe Suzette.
Bulls Blood wine (can you still get it?)
A chunk of lemon for your scampi
Fold your shirt cuffs up
Splash on the Brut 33

Hope this helps.

BB

Yep, Black Tower needed as well as Babycham and a Watneys Party 7

Don’t forget a tin of Evaporated Milk for something exotic to pour over dessert.

Oh, and ashtrays on the dining table (with a big glass lamp that lowers on a retractable cable over the centre) so you can all chain smoke whilst eating.

For music, it’s HAS to be a Ronco compiliation album played on your sleek new ‘Music station’

Pile some bin bags up in your path so the guests have to climb over them to get in. They will love you for it.

BB

My childhood is flashing before my eyes on this thread – no Gary Glitter though

prawns followed by scampi?

i’d change the main to overcoooked beef joint with a full loaf of sliced bread on a plate in the middle of the table.

apple dumpling for desert

You can’t have a 70’s dinner party without peppered steak!

BB

My childhood is flashing before my eyes on this thread – no Gary Glitter though

If anything’s flashing, surely it’s most likely to be Garry?!

Surely it’s got to be by candle light (70’s power cuts)

Where’s the Raclette set?

Love the seventies, I have a Wolseley six, in seventies white, nice upper management car available if required.

Snowball anyone?

Plenty of Hai Karate and or Jovan (?) musk

Vienetta – 70s or 80s?

cheese and pineapple on toothpicks?

Phah.. spectacular contributions..

Ok, I’ve found:
2 bottles of Lambrusco £2.99 in Waitrose 😆
Vesta meals (I had to google that) can’t find anywhere 😐 Great shout that
Frazzles I found (Bacon snack) It says on the packet “the original flavour” so we’re looking forward to these things.
Mint sticks (sort of a knobbly dark chocolate thin stick with mint chunks in, not quite Matchmakers but as close as I could find.. I’ll decamp them into an ashtray I found in the Cellar) 8) I’m hoping these show off how sophisticated I am.
Prawn Cocktail which I’m making, I asked around and this was “the” thing so that was a given.. The Scampi & Chips was asked for by one of my mates so that had to go on the menu.. I did think of Chicken in a basket or Peppered steak too 😀
I’ve got someone bringing a Pineapple Upside Down Cake.. This I’m quite looking forward to 😛
Good calls on the Music, I’ve got some Alvin Stardust, Garry Glitter, Bay City Rollers all mixed in with some Groovy Funk (Crown Heights Affair, Chic, Isley Brothers, Diana Ross, Instant Funk etc. etc. as we’re all into Funk and House so I’ve gone back to the roots of that scene in the main)
I’ve left the bin bags on the steps out for now, but there will be a few at the end of the evening 😆
Evaporated Milk, well one of our crowd still uses that stuff and her kids are fans of it too so she’s bringing that along 😆
The backed Alaska I tried to find 😐
I did find Frys Turkish Delight in purple wrappers 😆
I do have a Hostess Trolly as it happens, but it’s not heated so is actually useless other than a rather random sad looking plant on it, but that’ll add to the feeling right ?
I had to google Wanters Party Seven.. Yikes that stuff looks proper awful, so I’ve been searching high and low for that best thing I found was Skol but thats 80’s right? 😕
Cocktails will be Snowballs with Advoca and R Whites lemonade !!! complete with cherries and umbrellas 😆

Costumes, dear God we’ve gone right over the top and this will be quite hilarious, all I need is to tone down my indignant quiet air of desperation and social climbing right ??? 😆
I’ve been given a game of Twister but that’s not coming out until we’re all pissed right up and proper 😆

Well, I’m so looking forward to this, thanks for your suggestions. Theres a lot ^^ that I never knew about so thanks again y’all.

😀

We will need pictures tomorrow!

HOLD EVERYTHING!!!!!

What about the fondue set? You MUST have a fondue for some sophistication!