Prawn cocktail, also known as shrimp cocktail, is a seafood dish consisting of shelled, cooked, prawns in a Marie Rose sauce or cocktail sauce, served in a glass.[1][2] It was the most popular hors d'œuvre in Great Britain from the 1960s to the late 1980s, and was likewise ubiquitous in the United States around this time; in 1972 the American food critic James Beard wrote that "There is no first course as popular as a cocktail of shrimp with a large serving of cocktail sauce."[3] After this period it became unfashionable, before making a comeback in recent years. According to the English food writer Nigel Slater, the prawn cocktail "has spent most of [its life] see-sawing from the height of fashion to the laughably passé" and is now often served with a degree of irony.[4]