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'''[[Prawn cocktail]], [[steak frites|steak garni with chips]], and [[Black Forest cake|Black Forest gâteau]]''' was the most popular dinner menu in British restaurants in the 1980s, according to acontemporary surveysurveys by trade magazine ''Caterer and Hotelkeeper'', the most popular dinner menu in British restaurants in the 1980s.<ref name=Wood>{{citation |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=nlXD8m972RMC&pg=PA69 |title=Strategic Questions in Food and Beverage Management|page=24 |author=Wood, Roy C.|place=Oxford|publisher=Butterworth-Heinemann|year=2000 |isbn=9781136362095}}</ref> It was especially associated with the [[Berni Inn]] chain, which popularised mass-market dining out after the end of [[food rationing in Britain]], following the [[Second World War]]. ''The Prawn Cocktail Years'', by [[Simon Hopkinson]] and [[Lindsey Bareham]], called this meal the '''Great British Meal Out'''.<ref>[[Simon Hopkinson|Hopkinson, Simon]] and [[Lindsey Bareham|Bareham, Lindsay]]. (2006) ''The Prawn Cocktail Years''. London: Michael Joseph, jacket notes. {{ISBN|9780718149802}} Originally published 1997 by Macmillan.</ref>
 
==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"."<ref name="Mason2004">{{cite book|author=Mason, Laura.|title=Food Culture in Great Britain|url=https://archive.org/details/foodcultureingre0000maso|url-access=registration|date=2004|location=Westport|publisher=[[Greenwood Press]]|isbn=978-0-313-32798-8|page=[https://archive.org/details/foodcultureingre0000maso/page/153 153]}}</ref> Food rationing, introduced during the Second World War, did not end until 1954 and the range of eating-out options and variety of meals available remained limited, only gradually expanding through the 1950s and 60s.
 
==Meal==
The Great British Meal Out was a meal in a restaurant designed to appeal to those for whom eating out at all was unusual and for whom a prawn cocktail, steak garni or gateau were exotic foreign food. [[Nigel Slater]] wrote of his childhood in the 1970s: "As a family, we never went out for dinner unless we were on holiday, but there were occasional Saturday lunches at the local Berni Inn" adding "Steak garni always sounded so much more exotic than plain steak."<ref name=Slat>[https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2007/sep/30/foodanddrink.shopping National treasures] Nigel Slater, ''[[The Observer]]'', 30 September 2007. Retrieved 1 July 2014.</ref>
 
The standardised menu suited the restaurant, whowhich could purchase and prepare food in bulk within tight cost controls,<ref>[https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1347993/Frank-Berni.html Frank Berni] ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]'', 12 July 2000. Retrieved 1 July 2014.</ref> and avoided the need for the customer to choose courses from a menu which might include foods with which they were unfamiliar or which might include hard to pronounce foreign words, both of which had the potential to cause social embarrassment. The ingredients of the meal had a pleasantly sophisticated ring: "cocktail", the use of prawns, which was not common, "steak garni" rather than just steak,<ref name=Slat/> and『Black Forest gâteau』rather than just cake; all slightly foreign but easy enough to learn for next time, and allowing the diner to feel that they were enjoying a "continental" (European) eating experience.
 
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 gâteau had suddenly become less popular.<ref name=Wood/> [[Simon Hopkinson]] and [[Lindsey Bareham]] coined the term "Great British Meal" in their 1997 book ''The Prawn Cocktail Years'', which includes a chapter titled ''The Great British Meal Out''. They wrote that, "cooked as it should be, this much derided and often ridiculed dinner is still something very special indeed".<ref name=LB>{{cite web|title=The Prawn Cocktail Years|url=http://www.lindseybareham.com/prawn-cocktail-years-book/|website=lindseybareham.com|accessdate=11 June 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150223105030/http://www.lindseybareham.com/prawn-cocktail-years-book/|archive-date=23 February 2015|url-status=dead}}</ref><ref name=Cindex>{{cite web|last1=Saumarez Smith|first1=Joe. (2007)|title=Review: The Prawn Cocktail Years|url=http://www.cookingindex.com/cookbooks/14/modern-british/the-prawn-cocktail-years.htm|website=Cooking Index|accessdate=12 June 2014}}</ref><ref name=Independent>{{cite news|last1=Hopkinson & Bareham|first1=Simon & Lindsey|title=English heritage|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/english-heritage-1237765.html|accessdate=13 June 2014|work=The Independent|date=6 September 1997}}</ref>

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