You can never go wrong with cooked veggies on pasta. I used to like roastin sliced bell peppers and onions in the oven with olive oil and seasoning, and mixing it into some bow tie pasta w olive oil. Then melt some mozzarella cheese on top.
The shrimp cocktail was from a seaside restaurant. It was a glass cup with a bunch of cooked tiny shrimp, macerated in "cocktail sauce," that tasted like really sugary ketchup. Corn syrup city. I asked the waitress if she'd ever tried it before and I asked if she'd like a bite. She said no, laughed, and took my word for it that it was bad. Nice girl. She took it off my tab.