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{{Short description|British dinner menu}}
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[[File:Flickr - cyclonebill - Bøf med pommes frites (1).jpg|thumb|Steak and chips]]
[[File:Black Forest gateau.jpg|thumb|Black Forest gâteau]]
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==Background==
Laura Mason in ''Food Culture in Great Britain'' wrote that "In mid-twentieth-century Britain, eating out had a dreadful image. Badly served, poor and unimaginative food, discourteous staff, and dining rooms with limited and inconvenient hours
==Meal==
The Great British Meal
The standardised menu suited the restaurant,
The meal eventually became unfashionable as British dining tastes became more sophisticated from the 1980s onwards and the [[Gallup (company)|Gallup]] survey conducted by the trade magazine ''[[Caterer and Hotelkeeper]]'' in 1989 confirmed that Black Forest
==Association with Berni Inns==
The meal became associated with the [[Berni Inn]] chain, established 1955 and which had 147 hotels and restaurants by 1970, making it the largest food chain outside the United States. The chain prospered by offering a menu with a limited number of options in "Olde Worlde" style restaurants that looked much the same in every branch. The most popular meal at a "Berni", even as late as the 1980s, remained prawn cocktail, steak and chips, and Black Forest
In their 2000 obituary of [[Frank Berni]], ''[[The Guardian]]''
In 2013, ''[[The Times]]'' reported on the bankruptcy of the Scotch Steak Houses chain earlier that year, which it cast as latter day Berni Inns. The paper wrote that "for three decades [the owner] has run restaurants where time – and quality – appeared to stand still. While his rivals sought to keep pace with consumer tastes, Ali Salih's [[Aberdeen Angus Steak Houses|Aberdeen, Highland and Angus steakhouses]] continued to serve prawn cocktail, steak and Black Forest
==In fiction==
In his 1990 novel ''Titmuss Regained'', [[John Mortimer]] has Sir Willoughby mention "prawn cocktail, followed by steak and 'all the trimmings', to be topped off with a liberal helping of Black Forest
==See also==
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==References==
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==External links==
*[https://web.archive.org/web/20140328223728/http://rememberwhen.gazettelive.co.uk/2009/08/pub-grub.html Pub grub...a history, by Paul Delplanque.] gazettelive.co.uk
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