Relish Tray???? WTF.

[lilafowler]

Nov 24, 2015 10:13:54 GMT -5 candreco said:

LOL, my mom always does a relish tray for big meals. Olives, pickles, peppers, basically a variety from the olive bar.

MIL does this and adds celery sticks with cream cheese, lol.

[awick14]

Nov 24, 2015 10:13:54 GMT -5 candreco said:

LOL, my mom always does a relish tray for big meals. Olives, pickles, peppers, basically a variety from the olive bar.

We had dinner at my parents house on Sunday night and she always has a relish tray. Yum yum!!

[deanlicker78]

Nov 24, 2015 10:30:51 GMT -5 jojoandleo said:

Nov 24, 2015 10:29:08 GMT -5 coribelle26 said:

Anything you could use to garnish a Bloody Mary. Also bring Bloody Marys.

That's amazing. If someone placed that in front of me I would be so happy.

[sandyapples]

H's family is all about the relish tray.

MIL makes pickled beets, green beans and sometimes asparagus. She also makes zucchini relish. I married the right man.

[jigsy]

Growing up, my family was not really all that fancy so we did a relish tray with dill pickles and black olives from the can. I have fond memories of loading up my fingers with black olives, then dipping them in the turkey gravy, and eating them one by one.

I don't think I would do this as an adult, but I loved it as a kid.

[wambam]

jigsy - I used to think it was hilarious to put them on my fingers and ask my dad to eat them. LOLOLOLOL.

[knx9211]

Nov 24, 2015 13:05:24 GMT -5 jigsy said:

Growing up, my family was not really all that fancy so we did a relish tray with dill pickles and black olives from the can. I have fond memories of loading up my fingers with black olives, then dipping them in the turkey gravy, and eating them one by one.

I don't think I would do this as an adult, but I loved it as a kid.

... I totally still put black olives from the can on my fingers before consumption. I usually like to make sure there's a child nearby so I can pretend that I'm doing it for THEIR entertainment.

[Bad Dingo]

Nov 24, 2015 13:15:03 GMT -5 knx9211 said:

Nov 24, 2015 13:05:24 GMT -5 jigsy said:

Growing up, my family was not really all that fancy so we did a relish tray with dill pickles and black olives from the can. I have fond memories of loading up my fingers with black olives, then dipping them in the turkey gravy, and eating them one by one.

I don't think I would do this as an adult, but I loved it as a kid.

... I totally still put black olives from the can on my fingers before consumption. I usually like to make sure there's a child nearby so I can pretend that I'm doing it for THEIR entertainment.

When my niece was 3 or 4 she did this with pimento stuffed olives and then FREAKED out because she thought the pimento was blood.  I'm convulsing laughing at my desk right now reliving her trauma.

[flex]

When I was a kid I'd pretend my olive-covered fingers were the Queen's Guard.

[meggers5]

I do not belong in here.

[dojo]

I would like to eat these things.

[memenee]

We've never done a relish tray before but everything here looks so good. Is it typically on the table with the turkey or served before hand with the apps?

[memenee]

Ok, I'm answering my own questions here. From Chowhound:

The pickle tray may be the most lowly of Thanksgiving sides, but it actually has quite a colorful history, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. In Colonial times, when winter offered very little that was green to eat, preserved veggies were a dietary necessity. This kicked off the relish for relish. Even into the early 1800s, having green celery on your table was “a social coup.” Multi-compartment relish trays were all the rage by the 1900s, when olives became a status symbol.

If you, like one poster at Yahoo! Answers, wonder what the hell goes on a relish tray, check out this Chowhound thread, in which suggestions range from celery sticks stuffed with pimento cheese to hot pickled okra. And what to do with pickle tray leftovers? Chowhound has that covered, too.

Many people have fond memories of their childhood relish trays—maybe because the trays are often filled with kid-sized food.

I never liked those kid-sized pickles for some reason. Give me the pimento-stuffed olives every time.

[moolarkey]

Celery, carrots, cauliflower, radishes, green peppers are the basics. We have stuffed olives I'm going to add. Probably just doing a dill dip. I'm just doing a small relish tray, mainly for the leftovers. I'll snack on them all weekend, chop them up in to salad.

[RoxMonster]

I hate olives. They are probably one of my least favorite foods ever. Sorry.

But I do enjoy a good bread and butter pickle.

[Moe]

This was seriously one of the most unexpected delightful things that I looked forward to when I arrived in Twin Cities. I'm told that it was very traditional here.

In the past 3 years, such relish played have vanished. Sad things make me sad.

[whiskeytails]

I'm 30 and I still suck a pimento out of an olive before I eat it... but now before I do that, I make sure the olive has been bathed in an brandy old fashioned.

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If I could eat exclusively pickled or brined vegetables I would be in heaven. And incredibly bloated from sodium.