Prawn cocktail, steak and Black Forest gateau: Difference between revisions

'''[[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.<ref>{{citation |url=http://books.google.co.uk/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 such mass-market meals after the end of [[food rationing in Britain]], following the Second World War. ''The Prawn Cocktail Years'' by Simon Hopkinson and [[Lindsey Bareham]], styled this menu the '''Great British Meal Out'''.<ref>Hopkinson, Simon and Lindsey Bareham. (2006) ''The Prawn Cocktail Years''. London: Michael Joseph, jacket notes. ISBN 9780718149802 Originally published 1997 by Macmillan.</ref>