Greyhound (cocktail) similar cocktail with the name "Greyhound" appears in Harper's magazine in 1945 (volume 191, page 461) thus: ""The cocktails were made of vodka, sugar, and canned grapefruit juice -- a greyhound. This cocktail was served at Greyhound's popular restaurant chain that was located at bus terminals, called 'Post House'."" Before 1945, vodka was an uncommon spirit and most drinks we think of today as "classic cocktails" and which call for vodka, originally would have contained gin. As vodka's popularity grew after the War and gin's popularity waned, many of the popular cocktails persisted, albeit with vodka substituted for gin. The
Prawn cocktail, steak and Black Forest gateau Prawn cocktail, steak and Black Forest gateau Prawn cocktail, steak garni with chips, and Black Forest gâteau was, according to a survey by trade magazine "Caterer and Hotelkeeper", the most popular dinner menu in British restaurants in the 1980s. It was especially associated with the Berni Inn chain which popularised mass-market dining out after the end of food rationing in Britain, following the Second World War. "The Prawn Cocktail Years", by Simon Hopkinson and Lindsey Bareham, called this meal the Great British Meal Out. Laura Mason in "Food Culture in Great Britain" wrote that "In mid-twentieth-century Britain, eating out had