Kitchen

[QVCkitty1]

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@Kachina624 wrote:

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@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.  

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@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.

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@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.

[4kitties]

@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.

[kate2357]

@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. 

[Sooner]

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!   

[haddon9]

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@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.  

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@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.

[Sooner]

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@haddon9 wrote:

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@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.  

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@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.

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@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.

[Desertdi]

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...

[RedTop]

@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.