1960s Food and Drink

Since WW2 and the following years of rationing, most British household’s preferred way of eating was based on “meat and two veg.” The following are some of the most popular dishes in 1960s UK.
Sunday roast (chicken/beef/pork/lamb)

Fish fingers
Beans on toast
Shepherd’s pie
Boiled egg and soldiers
Bangers and mash
Fish and chips
Scrambled Egg
Beef Stew
Pie & chips/mash
Pork/lamb chops
Steak & kidney pie
Toad in the hole
Jacket potato (with cheese and beans)
Chicken casserole
Omelette
Cheese toasties
Liver & onions

And the more exotic creeping in (especially in dinner parties):
Meatballs
Chicken a la king
Duck a l’orange
Beef Bourguignon
Spaghetti Bolognese
Pigs in blankets
Vol au vents
Shrimp/prawn cocktail
Pineapple and cheese ‘hedgehog’
Fondue
Ritz crackers with Dairylea cheese triangles
Vesta curries and Chow mein

And for afters:
Ambrosia rice pudding
Pineapple upside down cake
Baked Alaska
Tunnel of fudge cake
Mousse (jelly + evaporated milk)
Angel delight/Instant whip
Sherry trifle

Drink
Beer was by far the most popular alcoholic drink in the 60s. People generally preferred bitter and increasingly one of the more popular keg brands: Watneys Red Barrel, Double Diamond, Whitbread Tankard or Younger's Tartan, or pale ale. Lager was gaining popularity in the sixties; the well known brands being Carlsberg, Heineken, Skol or Harp. At home people drank bottled beer rather than cans.

Before the 1960s wine was only drunk by the upper classes. Now Blue Nun, Chianti and Mateus Rose were the wines of choice. Popular French white wines included Chablis, Poully-Fuissé, Macon, White Graves, Sauternes (sweet wine) German wines - Moselle, Hock, Riesling Rosé - Rosé D'Anjou, Mateus Red wines - Bordeaux (Clarets - Médoc or St Emilion) Chianti (the bottles were used to hold candles)

Babycham was a favourite with the ladies along with Cinzano, also port and lemon and rum and coke were popular. For spirits, Haig whiskey, VAT 69 and Remy Martin cognac.

Soft drinks included ‘health’ drinks Ribena and Lucozade, and many fizzies, delivered to your door by the "pop man": Cherryade, Tizer, Wrights lemonade, dandelion and burdock, creme soda and ginger beer. Squash (or cordial) flavours included orange, blackcurrant and lemon barley water.

 Hot drinks apart from the ubiquitous tea saw instant coffee growing in popularity, many people ended the day with a milky nightcap of Cocoa, Bournvita, or the gloriously malty Ovaltine and Horlicks.