In the housewife compendium "Practical Lady" from 1939 you can read about which food you should serve in which dishes:

" (...) For fish use a long and narrow dish; the same for meat, but a bit wider; serve vegetables and jelly in a round dish. Serve salads and stewed fruit in a glass or a lily white mould; serve baked dishes in ovenproof dishes rimmed with a white napkin (...)".

Today we have a slightly less rigid approach to serving food. The kinds of plates and dishes depend on the invention of the housewife. Seashells, trenchers and tiles are only a few ideas for different ways to serve food. I put my salad on the table in a very unusual dish. It looks different and interesting and ... I didn't have to wash the dishes.

Ingredients:
1 big grapefruit
150g of smoked salmon
100g of crabsticks
1 stick of celery
10 black olives
2 tablespoons of minced chives
2 tablespoon of mayonnaise

Cut the grapefruit into halves and remove the flesh so as not to break the skin. Peel the pieces of grapefruit and squeeze the juice from the rest. Cut the slices of salmon into strips and roll them up. Slice the olives and celery. Cut the crab sticks into 1.5 cm pieces.
Arrange the ingredients of the salad in the grapefruit bowls, sprinkle with the juice and chives. Decorate the top with the mayonnaise.

Enjoy your meal!