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Old 26-09-2016, 12:44
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https://www.flickr.com/photos/severnbiker/8679006098

Found this the other day, some real errr, classics, on it. Hard to believe people used to have a glass of fruit juice for a starter.
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Old 26-09-2016, 13:59
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I remember going just once to the one that was at The Milehouse Roundabout in Newcastle under Lyme.
From what I can remember it was very busy and you had to book a table.
I had prawn cocktail and scampi.

Brings back loads of memories.
Thank you

One of our favourite places was The Taj in Hope Street, Hanley.
One of the first Indian restaurants in The Potteries I think, across the road from Bucks which was a very known jewellers
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Old 26-09-2016, 14:58
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Thank goodness things have moved on, what a boring menu!

The mushrooms bit amused me! "Treat yourself!" Wow, that's really pushing the boat out!

Yes, the fruit juice as a starter thing is totally bizarre!
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Old 26-09-2016, 15:04
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Thank goodness things have moved on, what a boring menu!

The mushrooms bit amused me! "Treat yourself!" Wow, that's really pushing the boat out!

Yes, the fruit juice as a starter thing is totally bizarre!
If you really want to treat yourself you could have a coffee in a glass with cream on top!
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Old 26-09-2016, 15:23
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Ah - the days when vegetarians were not catered for!

Bowl of soup and a side salad then.
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Old 26-09-2016, 16:00
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I remember being taken to one near us in Stockton - Think it was called the Mitre? - for a school friends birthday. I'd have been maybe 12 so this was 1982. His parents were posher than us and I'd never eaten out without my mum before so I didn't know what to order. Plus I was the fussiest kid ever.

I can still remember the painful embarrassment of it. I suspect I would have had soup and maybe the roast chicken. Its such a dull menu isn't it.
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Old 26-09-2016, 16:03
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Tbh, that's hardly any different to the menu of our local pub in the village where the landlord has remained in a timewarp since the day he took the place on - with the exception of the drink prices which have definitely moved with the times, and then some
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Old 26-09-2016, 16:30
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Ah - the days when vegetarians were not catered for!

Bowl of soup and a side salad then.
But...But - there's fish!

Recall going on uni field trips around the wilder parts of Britain with a couple of veggies on our course - rarely a veggie course as such, but the kitchen would normally manage to rustle up either cauliflower cheese or macaroni cheese. I recall them being quite impressed with one hotel that offered them egg curry!
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Old 26-09-2016, 16:36
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I've run some of the prices through an inflation calculator and it works out quite well but a few anomalies. The scampi would now be £15! Back in 1984 it cost more than the sirloin steak. Soup meanwhile would only be £1.68 and cheesecake only £2.29,
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Old 26-09-2016, 16:38
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What!! No Black Forest Gateaux !!!

A few weeks ago a friend of mine invited me to hers to have a 'retro' meal and it was Prawn Cocktail to start, Steak and Chips as a main and Black Forest Gateaux as pudding and then, horror of horror some Blue Nun wine which was truly appalling. .
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Old 26-09-2016, 16:40
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Found the wine list:-

https://www.flickr.com/photos/severnbiker/8677896849

Wonder what the Yugoslavian Riesling was like.
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Old 26-09-2016, 16:41
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I can't believe anyone went in a Berni Inn, when there were Wimpy Bars all over the place
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Old 26-09-2016, 19:08
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I actually like that sort of a straightforward menu. Give me the roadt duck, please!
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Old 26-09-2016, 21:18
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I remember going just once to the one that was at The Milehouse Roundabout in Newcastle under Lyme.
From what I can remember it was very busy and you had to book a table.
I had prawn cocktail and scampi.

Brings back loads of memories.
Thank you

One of our favourite places was The Taj in Hope Street, Hanley.
One of the first Indian restaurants in The Potteries I think, across the road from Bucks which was a very known jewellers
OMG, that is my memory too, I had many meals with my first ever boyfriend there, I thought we were so sophisticated and I had my ears pierced at Bucks at the tender age of 18, much to my parents disapproval. So many years ago .
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Old 26-09-2016, 23:49
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I actually like that sort of a straightforward menu. Give me the roadt duck, please!
Is that a duck that's been run over?
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Old 26-09-2016, 23:59
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Ah, the T-Bone steak, ordered by every man trying to impress his lady or his mates.

Under "Coffees" - "In busy times you may be asked to take your coffee into the bar".
"Thank you now clear off!"
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Old 27-09-2016, 00:35
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Is that a duck that's been run over?
Ha. Ha. I've been terrible at multitasking today. I left the oats out of my Anzac biscuits in addition to my awful typos. On the upside, it meant I made a pretty good coconut butter cookie.
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Old 27-09-2016, 12:31
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OMG, that is my memory too, I had many meals with my first ever boyfriend there, I thought we were so sophisticated and I had my ears pierced at Bucks at the tender age of 18, much to my parents disapproval. So many years ago .
Goodness, I never imagined that would happen.
Hello there.
We also have a couple more things in common.
I live in Cheshire too.
We are a motorbike family and love motorbikes as well.
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Old 27-09-2016, 12:49
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I've run some of the prices through an inflation calculator and it works out quite well but a few anomalies. The scampi would now be £15! Back in 1984 it cost more than the sirloin steak. Soup meanwhile would only be £1.68 and cheesecake only £2.29,
Scampi was always my dad's choice on the rare occasion we went out for a meal as it was considered a treat.

Actually, some of the prices for the main courses aren't much different than what you would pay in a Whetherspoons now over 30 years later. It's the starters, desserts and drinks which have gone up in price a lot.
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Old 27-09-2016, 12:57
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Scampi was always my dad's choice on the rare occasion we went out for a meal as it was considered a treat.

Actually, some of the prices for the main courses aren't much different than what you would pay in a Whetherspoons now over 30 years later. It's the starters, desserts and drinks which have gone up in price a lot.
Yes the mains work out about right, about £15 for a steak I got it to. The desserts and starters have indeed gone up a lot, wine is also similarly priced.
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Old 27-09-2016, 13:29
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I have very fond memories about Berni Inns

My mother worked as a waitress in branches in Liverpool for years (the Albany and the River Inn) and my 3 brothers and my sister worked their way through University doing shifts there.

Even I did odd shifts there too Happy Days! I can still make fresh butter curls (no horrible plastic packs then) and ball a melon like a pro and a "floater coffee" * is still in my repetoire

Yes, the menus were basic and unsophisticated by today's standards but it was good quality fresh ingredients well prepared to order. Nothing frozen or fresh-chilled. No microwaves. Even the scampi was prepped in the kitchen from scratch (although I can admit now thatt the "scampi" was on occasion monkfish - not uncommon throughout the catering industry in those days when monkfish was so cheap. (It isn't now of course!))

* very unfortunate name
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Old 27-09-2016, 13:33
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Scampi was always my dad's choice on the rare occasion we went out for a meal as it was considered a treat.
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My dad always, without fail, had gammon with a fried egg on top and moaned if it was salty.
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Old 27-09-2016, 13:37
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The New Inn, Gloucester - brings back memories - celebrated my 21st birthday there alongside my brother celebrating his 18th birthday.

"The New Inn, 16 Northgate Street, Gloucester, England, is a timber framed building used as a public house, hotel and restaurant. It is the most complete surviving example of a medieval courtyard inn with galleries in Britain, and is a Grade I listed building.[1] The announcement of Lady Jane Grey's succession to the British throne was made from the Inn gallery in 1553.[2][3]"
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Old 27-09-2016, 19:27
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Looks good to me, I like fresh unpretentious food. Back in the 1960's when we went out to eat, Dad always got the mixed grill with the prawn cocktail to start. I usually got a mushroom omelette, as I was veg at the time. Good memories.
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Old 27-09-2016, 22:57
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My dad always, without fail, had gammon with a fried egg on top and moaned if it was salty.
I always went for the gammon but when offered the choice of egg or pineapple being greedy I would want both. Mum was always fish and chips. Dad would have a pint fof bitter for desert, me a cheesecake and mum an ice cream. I don't know why we ever bothered looking at the menus as we were so predictable.
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