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'''[[Prawn cocktail]], [[steak frites|steak garni with chips]], and [[Black Forest cake|Black Forest gâteau]]''' was, according to a survey 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>Hopkinson, Simon and Lindsey Bareham. (2006) ''The Prawn Cocktail Years''. London: Michael Joseph, jacket notes. {{ISBN|9780718149802}} Originally published 1997 by Macmillan.</ref>
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