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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,
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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