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Sectional Vegetable/Relish Dish

Xivambala — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 19:23:07 GMT

@ECBG I contacted several members of my family and asked if anyone remembered this dish from my childhood. The last, my aunt, did. My grandmother gave it to her, and in turn, my aunt gave it to her daughter. I asked for a picture. The only difference from my memory is that I though it was tri-color and it is not. I think it is in great shape being as old as I am. I am 69 and I don't know when or where my grandmother got it.

I did a search with Google Lens and see this dish is still for sale as used items. My grandmother had it on a spinning turntable. I don't know if the current ones come that way. I don't think my cousin uses it, but I love it!

Re: Sectional Vegetable/Relish Dish

Sooner — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 19:36:15 GMT

I never encountered a relish dish until I was in my 20's and moved. We never served one and I never knew someone who did when I was growing up.

Pickles, olives, raw vegetables etc. were items you might get with a sandwich, but not on the table with a meal. And I still don't understand it's purpose with a meal.

Re: Sectional Vegetable/Relish Dish

cindyNC — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:01:15 GMT

@Sooner @Xivambala My mother always had a relish dish on the table. My father worked in the family business and always came home for breakfast, lunch, dinner. The big meal was lunch....which they referred to as dinner, and dinner was called supper. Supper was usually leftovers from dinner.

Her relish dishes were usually clear glass, and the ones for holiday dinners were antique cut glass.

Re: Sectional Vegetable/Relish Dish

tessam — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:07:32 GMT

Send a photo of it to replacements.com and they can identify it for you if it ws produced by a company rather than an individual artist. Good luck!

Re: Sectional Vegetable/Relish Dish

PA Mom-mom — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:10:40 GMT

@Xivambala That's a really neat kind of retro-looking dish! We always had, and still do have, a relish dish or two on our holiday and more formal tables. They have always been just the glass divided dishes. Two kinds of pickles and one or two kinds of olives. It's funny, but lately they seem to not get passed. I have to remind people to pass them.

Re: Sectional Vegetable/Relish Dish

Xivambala — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:23:41 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
I never encountered a relish dish until I was in my 20's and moved. We never served one and I never knew someone who did when I was growing up.

Pickles, olives, raw vegetables etc. were items you might get with a sandwich, but not on the table with a meal. And I still don't understand it's purpose with a meal.

@Sooner I grew up in a large home with extended family. We had a formal dining room with a large dining room table. This dish was put out on the table for large family meals. Things such as carrots, olives, celery sticks, small pickles, cucumber slices, etc. were in the individual sections. Because our family did this does not mean that everyone did. Some kind of relish 'tray' is common though in some homes/parties.

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Carmie — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:40:48 GMT

@Xivambala That is a pretty dish. I love to collect platters, bowls and unusual dishes.

My mother had several relish dishes and some divided platters. We used them for Sunday and holiday dinners. Some served veggies, some fruit and some had Italian meats and cheeses.

The kids and guests picked off of these appetizer foods while mom was still cooking. It kept us from bothering her.

I still waited to stick a fork in a meatball and run before she swiped me with a dish towel.

I have several that I still use and my younger sister has many more. She collects pink depression glass and always shows up to our large family dinners with several filled with " picky" foods.

Thanks for posting. I enjoyed seeing your grandmother's relish dish.

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PA Mom-mom — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:43:48 GMT

@Xivambala Here's a weird thing. DH and I both vaguely remember sitting at Sunday tables and seeing celery served in ice water in a relish dish. Never thought about it until now. It wasn't at our homes, but we remember it at homes we visited.

Re: Sectional Vegetable/Relish Dish

Kachina624 — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 20:50:41 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
I never encountered a relish dish until I was in my 20's and moved. We never served one and I never knew someone who did when I was growing up.

Pickles, olives, raw vegetables etc. were items you might get with a sandwich, but not on the table with a meal. And I still don't understand it's purpose with a meal.

@Sooner We always had relish dishes on the table for big dinners but they were clear cut glass, flat, and divided into 3 or 4 sections. I have several of them.

They were just part of the meal, sometimes a salad replacement.

Re: Sectional Vegetable/Relish Dish

ECBG — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 21:12:46 GMT

@PA Mom-mom wrote:
@Xivambala Here's a weird thing. DH and I both vaguely remember sitting at Sunday tables and seeing celery served in ice water in a relish dish. Never thought about it until now. It wasn't at our homes, but we remember it at homes we visited.

@PA Mom-mom

I remember pieces of celery stuffed with pimento cheese.

Re: Sectional Vegetable/Relish Dish

QVCkitty1 — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 21:17:58 GMT

@Kachina624 wrote:
@Sooner wrote:
I never encountered a relish dish until I was in my 20's and moved. We never served one and I never knew someone who did when I was growing up.

Pickles, olives, raw vegetables etc. were items you might get with a sandwich, but not on the table with a meal. And I still don't understand it's purpose with a meal.

@Sooner We always had relish dishes on the table for big dinners but they were clear cut glass, flat, and divided into 3 or 4 sections. I have several of them.

They were just part of the meal, sometimes a salad replacement.

@Kachina624 , Same here, those dishes were always on my grandma's table. I also remember celery sticks stuffed with cream cheese. It was just the style at the time.

Re: Sectional Vegetable/Relish Dish

4kitties — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 21:20:44 GMT

@ECBG

I love that relish dish!

We always had a relish tray, served in a divided dish, at big family meals when I was young. Different olives, cheese pieces, celery, stuffed with cream cheese, and other bits.

I just picked up a second hand clear glass divided platter with different veggies embossed on the underside. It is so unusual I just had to have it. I do not know its age, but it has a vintage feel to it. I will use it this summer at any family get togethers.

Re: Sectional Vegetable/Relish Dish

kate2357 — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 22:04:06 GMT

@Xivambala

I think that is a lovely dish and could be used for many things other than veggies. It could be used for cubes of cheese, salami, peppadew peppers, crackers, nuts ... whatever.

The color is very pretty.

My mother was/is not a great cook. But she would put out a "relish" dish for people to snack on while waiting for the main meal to be served. It wasn't usually on the dinner table ... just for the snacking food prior. As many said, carrots, stuffed celery, olives, gherkin pickles.

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Sooner — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 22:08:42 GMT

We never had pickles except dill slices on a burger or sandwich and maybe bread and butter pickles occasionally to go with a sandwich. Olives were to go in something.

Salad was served with the meal and we didn't eat before the meal. We never had pickle spears or other kinds of pickles except sweet pickle relish for hot dogs, tuna salad and such. My aunt kept those teeny little gherkins--mostly 'cause she thought they were cute!

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haddon9 — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 22:14:03 GMT

@Sooner wrote:
I never encountered a relish dish until I was in my 20's and moved. We never served one and I never knew someone who did when I was growing up.

Pickles, olives, raw vegetables etc. were items you might get with a sandwich, but not on the table with a meal. And I still don't understand it's purpose with a meal.

@Sooner I can remember having olives (usually green & black) as well as pickles added occasionally. I can remember this as far back as the late 1950s & early 1960s going to an Aunt & Uncle's house for the holidays.

Later, my MIL would do the same and now my SIL has a relish dish out when we go for Thanksgiving.

I love olives so always looked forward to it! It just dressed the table up a bit for those special occasions.

Re: Sectional Vegetable/Relish Dish

Sooner — Sun, 23 Apr 2023 22:20:28 GMT

@haddon9 wrote:
@Sooner wrote:
I never encountered a relish dish until I was in my 20's and moved. We never served one and I never knew someone who did when I was growing up.

Pickles, olives, raw vegetables etc. were items you might get with a sandwich, but not on the table with a meal. And I still don't understand it's purpose with a meal.
@Sooner I can remember having olives (usually green & black) as well as pickles added occasionally. I can remember this as far back as the late 1950s & early 1960s going to an Aunt & Uncle's house for the holidays.

Later, my MIL would do the same and now my SIL has a relish dish out when we go for Thanksgiving.

I love olives so always looked forward to it! It just dressed the table up a bit for those special occasions.

@haddon9 LOL!!! Mother and I just loved olives but only ate them when we were putting them in something and snagged a few out of the can!

I remember going to Disneyland and we ordered PB&J sandwiches and were thrilled with the huge black olives that came with them! I love olives.

Re: Sectional Vegetable/Relish Dish

Desertdi — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 00:36:36 GMT

Also known as a "lazy susan"... And everyone had at least one, back in the 1950's.

Look in thrift stores if you need one...

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RedTop — Mon, 24 Apr 2023 01:20:00 GMT

@Xivambala

Lazy susan came to mind as soon as I saw the picture; the dishes sat on a turntable, usually surrounding a center bowl. The one my mother has is turquoise and white; I have my MIL's, which is yellow and brown. Both were purchased in the early 60's by redeeming Top Value stamps or S & H green stamps.