Is Black Forest Cake/Gateau...
 

....a cake that screams 1970s? If not, what is? My friend who has decided to make her entire house/life 1970s is coming for lunch on Weds and it's her birthday.....

Red Velvet? Seems like rainbow cake was popular then, too.

I don't think red velvet cake made it to the UK. it seems popular here right now. What is rainbow cake?

Definitely a UK 1970s sophisticated dine-out at a Berni Inn experience!

I've posted before about a restaurant called The Dolphin in Leyton, which was like a perfectly preserved 70's restaurant. I went there with a South African friend, so he didn't get my sheer joy (prawn cocktail! Mattheus Rose! sweet trolley!) but he certainly enjoyed the food.

If you can get patterned carpet, you're well in.
If not, make creamed mushrooms with special mushrooms. You'll see patterns everywhere.

ETA
My 70s menu:

Prawn cocktail
no need to use English prawns (ie shrimps) but use shredded lettuce and Marie Rose Sauce made from salad cream & ketchup decorated with cayenne pepper
OR
sliced melon decorated with cayenne pepper

Ideally roast
Ideally pork or beef. Yorkshires must always be served.
Also acceptable - chicken kiev, steak & kidney pie, chops
Please note the above are only acceptable if guests turn up unexpectedly. Roasts should always be available.

Sweets
As mentioned above.
Black Forest Gateau. Offer with cream. Because it's not sweet enough.
Sherry Trifle. Should have enough alcohol content to render the guest unfit to drive without recourse to any liquers.
Fruit Trifle - tinned fruit where the only identifiable items are grapes and cherries, and neither taste as such.

Served with - Matteus Rose, Hock or Blue Nun.

My memory of the food of the 1970s mostly consists of mixed frozen vegetables. :shudder:

german chocolate cake?

Rainbow cake. There's another kind of rainbow cake, but it's a newcomer.

Ambrosia Salad

Thanks, Dar.

What about german chocolate cake, cloud?

sg, that's great but I'm only doing cake 70s style. the rest will be whatever i can throw together from the fridge/freezer in the hour I have after skating class :lol: (Likely to be extrememly loaded baked potatos Brit-style). There are four of us usually. This week it was lentil and barley soup followed by apple crisp. Week before was chicken pizza made on the grill outside followed by Brownies, before that chicken salad (Brit translation: chicken mayo and grapes and some other stuff) and accompaniments followed by cupcakes.

As far as I can tell that's still all the rage....timeless if you will..... plus, how the hell am iIsupposed to stick birthday candles in that? :lol:

Also I'd probably barf trying to make it (not that anyone would be able to tell if I stirred it in well enough....)

Aw shoot, just saying it could be extra...I love the stuff.

with or without monster barf? :p

By rights there should be advocaat.