Food fashions

[ladyofastolat]

I was thinking today about how much I like chicken kiev, and how it seems to have gone completely out of fashion. Back in the early 90s, virtually every pub that served food offered chicken kiev, which suited me perfectly, but I don't think I've seen chicken kiev on any pub menu in years. I wonder why not. I wonder why food has fashions. I suppose it's a reaction to ubiquity. When something is ubiquitous - whether an item of food, a popular book, a pop band, an item of clothing etc. - it encourages others to sneer at it and feel superior by avoiding it. Then it becomes a bit sad or naff or common, and within a few years, people can look at it and sneer, "Oh, that's so three years ago," and move on. But then, of course, thirty years later, it will have retro appeal, and will be brought back again.

Anyone got any favourite foods that were once ubiquitous, but are now impossible to find?

Alternatively, feel free to tell me all your chicken kiev sightings, and show me all my pontifications are based on a false premise.

Comments

[clarienne.livejournal.com]

I really liked prawn cocktails, which are the classic 'embarrassing 80s food'.

[ladyofastolat.livejournal.com]

I don't like seafood, so don't myself miss prawn cocktails at all, but I've never understood why one decade's fashions get labelled "embarrassing" a decade on. It's all very baffling. I refuse to play along when people laugh at 70s flares or 80s mullets, too. I'm probably quite annoying. :-)

[jane-somebody.livejournal.com]

Yes, me too, *and* black forest gateau :-)