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

[muuranker.livejournal.com]

Sorry, got distracted by this: thinking why Kiev? Why not Chicken Minsk? Or Chicken Kettering?

They are in the Waitrose easy-to-cook range.

My missing food: in the mid 1980s, M&S did a twist on the saussage roll which had a really moist filling (possibly sun-dried tomatoes were involved) which had a lattice plait top rather than being puff pastry all around. Last seen around 1993.... This, and their white its-not-Toblerone were purchased each week in preference to fresh vegitables or anything sensible like that.