The 1980s called.... (This is a pear salad, apparently. Supposed to look like bunches of grapes. Cream cheese is involved. Yes.)
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Back in the 80s, I remember just how “nouvelle” many of these dishes seemed after a decade or two of cordon bleu cookery - they haven’t aged terribly well.
jul 18, 2025, 12:54 pm • 0 0 • view
Quenelle of blue cheese/cream cheese
jul 18, 2025, 4:32 pm • 0 0 • view
No.... even the occasional effervescence is actually a bit of a pale shadow of the 1950s.
jul 19, 2025, 8:54 am • 1 0 • view
P.S. Love the plate!
jul 18, 2025, 8:32 am • 0 0 • view
I know! I chipped one and I'm a bit sad.
jul 18, 2025, 8:35 am • 0 0 • view
Oh no! I do see singles on eBay from time to time... Hope you can find a replacement.
jul 18, 2025, 8:45 am • 0 0 • view
Oh. Why not just ... a bunch of grapes then?
jul 18, 2025, 8:32 am • 0 0 • view
I have my dad's complete set of Marshall Cavendish Good Cooking guides, lovingly collected by him in the 70s. It's full of this sort of stuff, as well as the higher end dishes.
jul 18, 2025, 11:14 am • 1 0 • view
The lettuce doesn't look iceberg-y enough. I'm pretty sure that was the only salad leaf available in the 80s. Well, it's the only one I remember anyway!
jul 18, 2025, 9:22 am • 0 0 • view
I love iceberg! But this was something the label fell off from the plot. Romaine? Maybe?
jul 18, 2025, 11:41 am • 1 0 • view
I love it too! Especially in a roast chicken and salad cream sandwich....
jul 18, 2025, 11:43 am • 0 0 • view
I am so happy that my mom cooked mostly traditional food, or followed Jehane Benoît, first lady of television cuisine (yes, before Child), Canadian, Sorbonne-educated, Cordon Bleu-trained, author, very prominent personality. She educated generations of home cooks. fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehane_...
jul 18, 2025, 6:46 pm • 0 0 • view
Sweet Gesus! 😂 I hope it tasted good!
jul 19, 2025, 8:56 am • 0 0 • view
I'm sorry you lost me at 'pustules' 🤪
jul 18, 2025, 9:18 am • 0 0 • view
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jul 19, 2025, 8:54 am • 0 0 • view
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jul 18, 2025, 11:41 am • 0 0 • view
Prawn cocktail next?
jul 19, 2025, 8:58 am • 0 0 • view
I adore prawn cocktail. (The 1950s way as opposed to the 1980s way).
jul 19, 2025, 12:51 pm • 1 0 • view
That looks far too big a portion for the 80s, or indeed any time 😂
jul 18, 2025, 9:37 am • 0 0 • view
It wasn't awful?!
jul 19, 2025, 8:54 am • 0 0 • view
Damned by faint praise
jul 19, 2025, 9:31 am • 0 0 • view
There seem to be, er, piles of them.
jul 19, 2025, 9:15 am • 0 0 • view
I suppose you could make it look more like bunches of grapes, but *why*? (FWIW, in the 80’s our pear salads were half a canned pear on a lettuce leaf with a dollop of cottage cheese on top. Exciting.)
jul 18, 2025, 1:36 pm • 0 0 • view
Yummmmm. Oh, man, tinned pears. So gritty.
jul 19, 2025, 8:54 am • 1 0 • view