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[paulguitar]

21st Century Man said:

Bloody Hell!!!

Run the price of a rump steak at a Berni Inn through an inflation calculator. Assuming 1978 the BoE is coming up with £36 and thisismoney £39.

That can't be a Seventies menu?

I think it must be one of their later menus from the '80s.

They were known for very sensible pricing.

[21st Century Man]

stevemcs said:

Little Chef is another brand I miss.

I don't miss their properly stupid fking teapots though. I was a rep on the road through the eighties and would be in a Little Chef several times a week, I don't recall ever having a teapot that didn't dribble and piss all over the table upon pouring. An Early Starter and a fking puddle! Every fking time! The fking things are still out there too, in other establishments. Why? For the love of God, Why?

[generationx]

21st Century Man said:

I don't miss their properly stupid fking teapots though. I was a rep on the road through the eighties and would be in a Little Chef several times a week, I don't recall ever having a teapot that didn't dribble and piss all over the table upon pouring. An Early Starter and a fking puddle! Every fking time! The fking things are still out there too, in other establishments. Why? For the love of God, Why?

The Ministry of Bad Design (can't remember where that reference comes from, sorry).

[matchmaker]

stevemcs said:

Little Chef is another brand I miss.

According to their website there are still quite a lot open. However, they all apparently closed at least two years ago!

[anonymous-user]

stevemcs said:

Little Chef is another brand I miss.

And let’s not forget Happy Eater. These were the choices on a road trip growing up in the 70s and 80s.

[21st Century Man]

wormus said:

stevemcs said:

Little Chef is another brand I miss.

And let’s not forget Happy Eater. These were the choices on a road trip growing up in the 70s and 80s.

The Golden Egg.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

boyse7en said:

paulguitar said:

TwigtheWonderkid said:

What a fking rip off!! £5.85 for a Berni Inn mixed grill, when you can have a Wimpy International grill for 54p. No way is the Berni Inn grill over 10 times better.

I think there could be several years between the menus.

Given it was the 1970s it might not be that long! Inflation was pretty rampant back then

Indeed. We were one step away from the Weimar Republic.

[LaurasOtherHalf]

Lot of Nostalgia for Wimpy burgers here, our local one must have closed 20 years ago now. Me and the lads used to go for one every Saturday before hitting the snooker hall and downing half a dozen weak as pish Younger's Scotch Bitters.

There was a proper tidy lass that we knew who used to sort us out some freebies.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

wormus said:

And let’s not forget Happy Eater. These were the choices on a road trip growing up in the 70s and 80s.

I don't think their logo of someone trying to make themselves vomit up what they'd just eaten, did them any favours!

[hyphen]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

Melman Giraffe said:

paulguitar said:

Does anyone remember these ketchup dispensers?

Yes i own one, i wont say where it came from

I was always mystified by the same thing in brown, for the brown sauce?? Wft is that meant to be. A plastic tomato for tomato sauce is fine, a brown tomato for brown sauce.....?????

When tomatoes go off, they turn brown. And thats where brown sauce comes from

[TwigtheWonderkid]

The long gone eatery I really miss is the BHS restaurant. Was always great food at cracking prices. When my boys were small (maybe 5 & 3), we'd go swimming on a Sunday morning and then BHS in Uxbridge for lunch. I used to get whale and chips (as the boys called it, because of the size of the cod) and cut it in half and share it between the 2 of them. Tried telling them a whale was a mammal, not a fish, but they didn't care.

As a kid, my grandmother would take me to BHS Wembley to eat, as a special treat!

[anonymous-user]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

I don't think their logo of someone trying to make themselves vomit up what they'd just eaten, did them any favours!

I always thought it was some sort of fish.

[paulguitar]

21st Century Man said:

The Golden Egg.

We used to have pancakes there as an occasional, massive treat.

Also remember another chain in the late '70s called Hasty Tasty'.

[Sticks.]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

The long gone eatery I really miss is the BHS restaurant. Was always great food at cracking prices. When my boys were small (maybe 5 & 3), we'd go swimming on a Sunday morning and then BHS in Uxbridge for lunch. I used to get whale and chips (as the boys called it, because of the size of the cod) and cut it in half and share it between the 2 of them. Tried telling them a whale was a mammal, not a fish, but they didn't care.

As a kid, my grandmother would take me to BHS Wembley to eat, as a special treat!

I'd forgotten about BHS but yes, it was quite well thought of at the time, for what it was. But then it was a pretty decent department store.

My only memory of Golden Egg was one in the corner of a 70s shopping centre, with a strong smell of cigarette smoke and burning fat. It was about then the first McDonald's opened nearby. It was praised for bringing high standards of service and cleanliness. It was quite a contrast to the average cafe of the day.

[anonymous-user]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

The long gone eatery I really miss is the BHS restaurant. Was always great food at cracking prices. When my boys were small (maybe 5 & 3), we'd go swimming on a Sunday morning and then BHS in Uxbridge for lunch. I used to get whale and chips (as the boys called it, because of the size of the cod) and cut it in half and share it between the 2 of them. Tried telling them a whale was a mammal, not a fish, but they didn't care.

As a kid, my grandmother would take me to BHS Wembley to eat, as a special treat!

I used to work for Iceland back in the early 90s. We had Iceland stores within BHS for a while - one of the best things about being sent to cover one of those stores was getting a BHS breakfast whilst doing the football coupon on a Saturday morning.

[21st Century Man]

My dad used to take us to The Golden Egg just underneath the pedestrian overpass at Nottingham's Victoria Centre. It was as seventies as you could get. I hated the seventies. Everything was stty, grotty, disgusting, from architecture to fashion to interior design to personal hygiene. There were some good cars and some good music, but everything else was st. All imho of course.

[Your Dad]

stevemcs said:

There used to be 3 in Peterborough, one in Cathedral Square, one in Midgate (thats still there and run by the son now) and one in Bretton Centre. I thought there used to be one in Kettering a few years ago near a bowling alley ??

Little Chef is another brand I miss.

It's the one in Cathedral Square that I went to, on the left as you walked away from the Cathedral?

There was one in Kettering, upstairs above the entrance to the Newlands Centre, in the 80s.

[TwigtheWonderkid]

21st Century Man said:

My dad used to take us to The Golden Egg just underneath the pedestrian overpass at Nottingham's Victoria Centre. It was as seventies as you could get. I hated the seventies. Everything was stty, grotty, disgusting, from architecture to fashion to interior design to personal hygiene.

Errrr...that's not the 70s, that's just Nottingham.

[craigjm]

Spent the last two years or so in South Africa and it’s a huge business over there. They are literally everywhere.

[21st Century Man]

TwigtheWonderkid said:

21st Century Man said:

My dad used to take us to The Golden Egg just underneath the pedestrian overpass at Nottingham's Victoria Centre. It was as seventies as you could get. I hated the seventies. Everything was stty, grotty, disgusting, from architecture to fashion to interior design to personal hygiene.

Errrr...that's not the 70s, that's just Nottingham.