Possible Clues:

• Marinated salad veggies
• Tender centers of a prickly vegetable
• Marinated centers for salads
• *Vegetable parts often dipped in butter
• Cupid the reindeer brought __
• Centres of global cuisine?
• Fancy salad ingredients
• Marinated veggies sold in jars
• They may be quartered and marinated
• Salad morsels, perhaps