Bloody Mary (cocktail) cocktail, generally using the same ingredients and garnish as a Bloody Mary (according to local custom), but with the spirits replaced by additional tomato juice or prepared mix. Bloody Mary (cocktail) A Bloody Mary is a cocktail containing vodka, tomato juice, and combinations of other spices and flavorings including Worcestershire sauce, hot sauces, garlic, herbs, horseradish, celery, olives, salt, black pepper, lemon juice, lime juice and/or celery salt. In the United States, it is usually consumed in the morning or early afternoon, and is popular as a hangover cure. The Bloody Mary was invented in the 1920s or 1930s; there
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