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. 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 cri....