Tuna fish sandwiches: C/D

One thing mayo is good for is making a good tuna salad, with which you can then make a delicious sandwich.

The more critical component is relish, though.

classic

if you are feeling fancy, you can throw some curry powder in there

Indeed, quite classic.

mine: tuna, chopped apple, finely minced sweet onion, sweet relish, a little good brown rice vinegar, fresh thyme, mayo, black pepper

classic. a tuna fish sandwich + french fries + pickle is still the perfect thing to order at a diner.

ugh

GROSS

celery belongs in Bloody Marys -- nowhere else.

I like tuna in Japanese cuisine and as a tuna steak.

I also like tuna in Japanese cuisine and as a tuna steak

I will also fuck up a tuna salad sandwich

my palette is flexible and receptive to all of the glorious incarnations of tuna

curious whether tuna would beat egg salad in a sandwich poll

hmmm, kinda hate mayo...

Wait a minute, how about I mash some fish in there and eat the resultant paste? Delicious!

how will the brits fuck this up

there's only one way to find out

Classic, skip the celery, put some chopped hard boiled egg in there and you're all good

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/wordofmouth/2012/oct/31/how-to-eat-tuna-sandwich

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3061676/tuna-sandwich

But here, I think, is evidence of a true horror

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=647067

Best sandwich there is. That is, if you dont forget to put ~capers~ on.

One of my favourite lunches. Cyboes/scallions are essential. Diced red pepper and sweetcorn if I have them. Not too much Mayo.

Perfect baked potato filling also.

you can throw some curry powder in there

Truthbomb

DJP is OTM - elevates the sandwich

tuna melt

how will the brits fuck this up

Says the nation suggesting every disgusting combo under the sun and not the definitive tuna mayo + cucumber

Perfect baked potato filling also.

it has never occurred to me to put a tuna fish sandwich inside of a baked potato

I am just old enough to remember the horrors wrought by '70s cookbooks in which tuna, celery, and mayo figured prominently.

Diced red pepper and sweetcorn if I have them.

Ah, I knew we would find someone saying sweet corn soon enough.

Bread and butter

Point one, it must be butter, not too thick, but there nonetheless. And on both pieces of bread.

butter AND mayo??

This is also permissable
https://www.greggs.co.uk/sandwiches/tuna-crunch-bloomer

red onion and black pepper with this or gtfo

how could anyone suggest adding [ingredient] to my delicious fish gloop? The very idea!

i never

"Next you'll be adding bread!"

Well I mean if someone is gonna be all "you know what is wonderful in a tuna sandwich is A BUNCH OF RAT TURDS" I think we can safely draw a line there

Chicken salad > egg salad > coffee grounds and broken glass on a cabbage leaf > tuna fish

well wait a minute

which brand of coffee

tuna and jello (courtesy betty crocker)

http://i77.photobucket.com/albums/j71/lisaherring/DSC02730.jpg

DUD!

Vitello tonnato, on the other hand!

XPs
by "salad" you mean "mixed with mayonnaise", right?

ile food threads continuing to confirm that this site is populated by lunatics, aliens, and the british.

tuna is classic but the fresher the better

tuna sammies are just okay though

mark, no

reading the word, much less looking at a picture of it, makes me ill

never looking in this thread again

canned tuna fish is the most disgusting food i can think of, i can't even read this thread bc i'll get grossed out

j. forced my hand

canned tuna fish is the most disgusting food i can think of, i can't even read this thread bc i'll get grossed out

― na (NA), Wednesday, February 15, 2017

^^^ my man

don't make me put pictures of the canned whole chicken on this thread

sardines and bonito flakes are also classic btw

i love when i put bonito flakes on top of my pasta and they move as if they were alive

memories of having to sit at the dining room table for an hour after dinner bc i refused to eat tuna fish casserole

cyboes. huh.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/df/d3/17/dfd31744c9597586944a56dd899c6807.jpg

presto

for the record, that is not a tuna sandwich (unless maybe you are Paula Deen, and even then it's missing powdered sugar)

That's not far from the creamed tuna on toast we used to have when I was a kid. xxp

those fuckin olives staring at me, fuck that shit

the tfs can often be pitiful, can never be transcendent. that is all there really is to say on the matter

old better homes and gardens cookbooks from the 50s and 60s are a treasure trove of pictures every bit as horrifying as that one

o man tuna fish casserole

might be nostalgia tho

gotta get the cheese right i guess

those fuckin olives staring at me, fuck that shit

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 15 February 2017 22:38 Bookmark

"kill...me...."

hey guys check it out I put some cat food on some bread

i don't think i've ever seen alfred this worked up

http://revelwallpapers.net/d/3748754F6B336A4F79385374693657426F327563734C793433374A2D6D773D3D/cat-food-bacon-mustard-meat-bread.jpg

tuna fish sandwiches are horrible creations, but i fully expect to develop a taste for them when i properly transform into an old jew

i don't think i've ever seen alfred this worked up

― mookieproof, Wednesday, February 15, 2017 5:44 PM

I found a dangling modifier in a student narrative last week

I found a dangling modifier in a student narrative last week

Did the little voice inside your head say "Don't look back"?

I found a dangling modifier in a student narrative last week
hung out talkin' tuna fish with some internet geeks

tuna fish sandwiches are horrible creations, but i fully expect to develop a taste for them when i properly transform into an old jew

Every time I go to this one place to get falafel wraps, there's a guy either in front of me or behind me in line, asking for a giant ice cream scoop of tuna fish to be slapped on top of a plate of pasta. It's enough to ruin your whole weekend.

I probably wouldn't frequent a falafel place that offered that as an option

The world's most generic food site probably has some entertainment along these lines

http://www.food.com/

Some more beauties: Completely disgusting foods our parents ate

xxxp

theres a japanese dish called ワフパスタ (wafu pasta/chinese pasta) and you fry tuna with some soy sauce and put it on top of noodles with green onions and bonito/mackerel flakes

yum

I prefer pink salmon in sandwiches but tuna, mayo, fine diced onion and a load of dill is xcelent. Sweetcorn in there's good too, if a baguette shop happens to add it in.

Tuna fish sandwiches are delicious. They don't need much else, but crunchy iceberg lettuce is a nice addition. I am also partial to tuna melts.

My only qualms with tuna melts is that hot tuna and mayo can be a bit icky

dud

I'm ambivalent about tuna, but I feel the need to point out that Laura Nyro was the ultimate tuna fish sandwich connoisseur:

"Laura didn't really cook," explains Geffen. "Tuna Fish--you opened a can and put mayonnaise in it." Tuna fish had also been Gilda Nigro's specialty, so perhaps her daughter had a genetic predispotion. When it came time to name Nyro's publishing company, Bomser sauys it was he who suggested the name Tuna Fish Music. "She loved the idea," he says. "I mean, that's the only thing she knew how to make."

"I wouldn't call it anything else," Nyro said of her company's name. As for the tuna itself, she insisted it be Bumble Bee brand, white meat, with Hellman's mayonnaise, a teaspoon of cream cheese, some diced red onion, and a pinch of lemon pepper. From there, she said, you could branch out.

https://books.google.com/books?id=48TVCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT77&lpg=PT77&dq=%22laura+nyro%22+%22tuna%22+%22bumble%22&source=bl&ots=KtLyzKiSHI&sig=CogNx6T3bcIbBno9OixCuH3uYBE&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjB-_jnxpPSAhXkqVQKHRGWBWoQ6AEIIzAB#v=onepage&q=tuna%20fish&f=false

At the moment, I am working at a Subway inside of a Walmart.

I had a customer come in one day and everything started out smoothly. This lady had been coming in for quite some time, so I kind of recognized her. She’s your typical Walmart customer. Overweight, looking like trailer trash and riding (as we call them in our store) a fat cart. She orders a footlong tuna sandwich and wants us to put all the veggies on it. So, like I said, everything was going smooth until after the veggies were placed on the sandwich. That’s when she said to me, “This may be a strange request.” At this point, I’m thinking that I’ve heard many a people say that, and it’s never really that strange. So, I ask her what she wants and she proceeded to ask me to put 4 white macadamia nut cookies on her tuna sandwich. I think I gave her a really disgusted look, but I’m not sure. I obliged and placed the cookies on her sandwich, but she wasn’t done yet. She then asked me to cover the cookies with vinegar until they were soggy and ready to fall apart. Then to top it off, she made me double up on the mayo over the soggy cookies. At this point, I felt like I wanted to puke all over her sandwich. I think I may have a little into the back of my throat.

This lady is now a regular customer and she gets this same thing every single day.

that's some futuristic food lab genius for sure

Are we sure she hasn't written a book yet

My only qualms with tuna melts is that hot tuna and mayo can be a bit icky

Probably best to use a fairly dry tuna salad for a good melt.

is this the porn -classic or dud thread

i'm not reading this entire thread but for the record i have a visceral negative reaction to canned tuna that traces back to my early years as a very selective eater who found most foods vile. these days i'll eat pretty much anything and am totally down for some tasty canned sardines or a nice seared tuna steak but there's no way in hell i'm ever cracking open a can of tuna.

tuna salad is great as long as someone besides me is making it.

That Walmart lady story sounds like one of those customers suck blog tales, I am a sucker for reading those things.

That Walmart story is glorious. VINEGAR

Earlier today, around lunch time, I was reading this thread, got up, went to the kitchen, and fixed myself a delicious bowl of chili.

Green olives are a great addition to the tfs, and likewise capers I would think, as someone mentioned above.

i freakin' love avocado on just abt any sando, but esp tuna fishie. i keep the tuna salad part simple: mayo, dijon, lemon juice, black pepper, fine diced celery if it's on hand

I like a tuna sandwich, but warm/cooked can tuna is opening up the gates of hell. Fresh tuna like a grilled tuna steak is a totally different food. Canned Salmon is just as funky and different canned, but it is better cooked into some redneck salmon patties than right out of a can.

Lemon juice key to a nonsmelly tuna sam btw

classic

hey guys check it out I put some cat food on some bread

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 22:43 (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I notice there is no ABOMINATION choice in this poll. Fish from a can or tin is disgusting, and I have refused it ever since little me was undergoing chemotherapy, some genius decided a tuna hotdish was what's for dinner, and waves of nausea led to a proj vom of epic proportions. I loathe canned tuna more than any other foodstuff (it's not tuna per se, because it's awesome in sushi and great seared, and I found lox-style smoked tuna once and loved it).

The Britishes are lovely people mostly, but I will loudly judge the lot of you for the puke-alike abomination that is tuna and sweetcorn, especially when it appears barf-like atop some poor, defenceless baked potato.

'hey guys check it out I put some cat food on some bread

― El Tomboto, Wednesday, 15 February 2017 22:43'

I notice there is no ABOMINATION choice in this poll. Fish from a can or tin is disgusting, and I have refused it ever since little me was undergoing chemotherapy, some genius decided a tuna hotdish was what's for dinner, and waves of nausea led to a proj vom of epic proportions. I loathe canned tuna more than any other foodstuff (it's not tuna per se, because it's awesome in sushi and great seared, and I found lox-style smoked tuna once and loved it).

The Britishes are lovely people mostly, but I will loudly judge the lot of you for the puke-alike abomination that is tuna and sweetcorn, especially when it appears barf-like atop some poor, defenceless baked potato.

feel like those who hate tuna salad would beg for it when faced with eating ham salad

NOPE. You can put mustard on ham salad, there's no fucking CORN in it, bring it on.

voted disgusting
bookmarked to find out the # of savages otb

In general, dud. Usually because there's too much tuna.

I daresay there are lots of wonderful tunasandw recipes up there, so its not 100% dud i.e. abomination, just that there is usually something else offered as a choice.

Did

Yep, my spelling corrector does not recognise the word "Dud"...

Chicken salad > egg salad > coffee grounds and broken glass on a cabbage leaf > tuna fish

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Wednesday, February 15, 2017 2:27 PM (yesterday)

for once, Phil and I agree completely on something.

Tuna sandwich is A+++ yum, but fuck off if you're coming anywhere near me with sweetcorn. Literally the worst vegetable in the world. Like chewing on old, dead people's teeth.

"i hate canned tuna" is a near meaningless statement given the vast diff between a dense dry shreddy firm puck of pink skipjack and supple large flaked white albacore in olive oil

I can eat canned sardines and oysters, but canned tuna is just too reminiscent of feeding cheap canned to the cats growing up. Total psychological block, I'm sure it tastes fine and yada yada yada but I can't get past that and on to tuna salad.

Right, let me gross-out the Americans again.

Every Wednesday growing up my mum worked in the evening so she'd prepare a tuna fish pie during the day that I'd put in the oven to heat so it was ready when my dad got home.

Tuna fish pie consisted of canned tuna mixed with canned condensed mushroom soup, topped with mash potato, and a sprinkling of cheese on top.

I've not had this in years but I reckon it would be perfect comfort food.

sounds legit. no sweetcorn. not sure about mushroom soup though. not sure what condensed soup would work better. chicken? or is that really really weird?

I know there is a wide range in the quality of canned tuna, but that's equally true of cat food. KEEP IT AWAY FROM ME.

A mix of canned tuna, Campbell's cream of mushroom soup, and canned green beans whacked into a casserole dish, topped with fried onions and baked until it is hot as napalm - this might as well be the state dish of Minnesota. Reader, I moved.

if you're still making a comparison like that then no, you don't know

Great, a tuna stan. I like it raw or rare, but cooking it through and/or canning it ruins it for me.

jarred, how about jarred

jarred tuna in waitrose waiting for u right now. yummerz

never seen tuna in a jar.

There are few things nicer than a tuna steak done on the bbq with roast veg and lemon dressing

thread delivers, I offer my sincere congratulations

At the moment, I am working at a Subway inside of a Walmart.
I had a customer come in one day and everything started out smoothly. This lady had been coming in for quite some time, so I kind of recognized her. She’s your typical Walmart customer. Overweight, looking like trailer trash and riding (as we call them in our store) a fat cart. She orders a footlong tuna sandwich and wants us to put all the veggies on it. So, like I said, everything was going smooth until after the veggies were placed on the sandwich. That’s when she said to me, “This may be a strange request.” At this point, I’m thinking that I’ve heard many a people say that, and it’s never really that strange. So, I ask her what she wants and she proceeded to ask me to put 4 white macadamia nut cookies on her tuna sandwich. I think I gave her a really disgusted look, but I’m not sure. I obliged and placed the cookies on her sandwich, but she wasn’t done yet. She then asked me to cover the cookies with vinegar until they were soggy and ready to fall apart. Then to top it off, she made me double up on the mayo over the soggy cookies. At this point, I felt like I wanted to puke all over her sandwich. I think I may have a little into the back of my throat.

This lady is now a regular customer and she gets this same thing every single day.

and they say the British are disgusting

A mix of canned tuna, Campbell's cream of mushroom soup, and canned green beans whacked into a casserole dish, topped with fried onions and baked until it is hot as napalm - this might as well be the state dish of Minnesota. Reader, I moved.

Infamous foods of the Great Lakes Megalopolis

Tuna shit morelike

Fish from a can or tin is disgusting

i couldn't live without fish from a can or a tin. it is amazing.

rtc otm tho, just buy the jarred brindisa tuna on ocado, it's expensive but it's worth every penny. big jar of it and some bread, maybe an anchovy or two, decent olive oil and a glass of wine. easiest and best dinner.

a big mason jar of mixed seafood terrines, gouged out with sourdough, was one recent memorable lazy dinner which had tt cowering in the next room

i love those kind of dinners.

ya

I also like those little oily tins of sardines, especially if they're slightly spiced

tuna sandwiches are good. excellent cricket match tea option and I'll generally go for a mix of white and wholemeal breads, cucumber preferred. my only real dislike is as dog latin says for the presence of sweetcorn

I already leaked the existence of this thread to the Washington Post.

boil pasta. pour olive oil from tuna into pan. fry chilli and garlic. toss tuna thru briefly. toss pasta thru. add herbs and lemon zest if u like. settle down in front of the laptop and play out being the same spoilt little brat you were thirty years ago. job done

thirty years ago I was minus one day old, ahem

my mum made variations of tuna pasta too often for me to ever do that dish. i can barely eat pasta anymore, we had so fucking much of it as a kid. #middleclassproblems

mega-classic

As a kid I used to open up the sandwich and put some Pringles on there. Great stuff.

My friend Olly from uni similarly couldn't eat pasta anymore. Whereas my parents never had anything but potatoes.

Also I don't think I've ever had tuna pasta.

we had potatoes loads but i dunno, i could never get sick of those. genetics. i fucking love potatoes and rice - i do like pasta fine just never cook it. was interesting to note a sharp decline in the sales of pasta sauces in the uk, feels like the end of a strange era.

dud for me, will always choose chicken salad over it

Absolutely classic. Tuna melt on rye (the cheese has to be *melted*) even more Classic.

a cold tuna pasta salad is not bad ... tuna casserole, no thanks

sprouts, tomato, and avocado on the tuna melt please

there is a wide spectrum of tuna sandwiches or tuna salads, from delicious to disgusting. if it's good then i'm down but i can easily see how people think it's an abomination

same goes for potato salads or egg salad or any mayo-based thing

tuna melt is my fav sandwich, i eat one prob once per week

writing in neither C nor D

people posting about fresh tuna steaks on a thread about tuna fish sandwiches is like going on a thread about eating shit and being like "I love shit, but I eat it in the form of food that hasn't yet been digested and converted into waste"

NA is calling for a dolphin-friendly discussion

Fish from a can or tin is disgusting

You ever had fancy Spanish or Portuguese tinned fish (mackerel, sardines, etc.)? Divine.

otm

those are good

I haven't tried canned tuna again for years because I'd start retching every time I tried as a kid. Something about that somewhat metallic tang (of the fish, not from being canned) combined with the texture is bleh

mmm, metallic tang

I...won't go there.

Tuna fish pie consisted of canned tuna mixed with canned condensed mushroom soup, topped with mash potato, and a sprinkling of cheese on top.

I've not had this in years but I reckon it would be perfect comfort food.

― Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Thursday, February 16, 2017 2:44 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

sounds scik man

want a slice now

also lots of people thinking theyre better than animals itt

ts: humans vs animals

https://kiwli.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Meet-the-adorable-king-kong-kitty1.png

RIP tuna that got drowned in Satan's effluvium

I love tinned anchovies - they are the only tinned fish I will eat, but the Spanish tins of clams, mussels, octopus or squid are amazing.

Another form of tuna I will eat: bonito flakes. Love them wriggling away on top of okonomiyaki.

Is okonomiyaki readily available in the UK? I'd never heard of it until last month, during a stay in Tokyo. It's delicious and I brought back some bags of okonomiyaki mix. Apparently there's a resto here (Paris) that sells it but, like, just one, I think.

sounds like youre tunist suzy sorry to say

xp

xp

Well, I live about five minutes' walk from an okonomiyaki restaurant, one of maybe five in London. This is it: http://www.abeno.co.uk

ah nice. I see that there are a couple more places now here, e.g. http://www.okomusu.com, just around the corner from the place with the best fries in town, Chez Nenesse (but only on Thursdays for lunch when the fries are made with duck fat).

relevance to thread: sometimes Europeans do awful things like put mayo on fries, thus making them cousins of the foul tuna fish sandwiches.

It's more of a dollop than a slice.

xp. mayo on fries is great

pro mayo on fries

a bowl of tuna salad, a block of swiss cheese, and some good crackers > sandwich

de gustibus non disputandum est

^ that's what I keep saying

mayo is good w/ fries

mayo on fries is delicious and so are tuna sandwiches and so is tuna mayo in a backed potato and it is also ok with corn though will admit that I was grossed out by it as first

BACKED POTATO

tuna mayo sandwich literally the only food that has ever given me indigestion

didn't stop me enjoying them when i ate fish

tuna backed by a potato

"was interesting to note a sharp decline in the sales of pasta sauces in the uk"

maybe that case of botulism in a Lloyd Grossman branded jar of processed gloop didn't help. I peel and de-seed a shitload of tomatoes every week to make my own sauce/soup batches these days, so obviously I'm dead sophisticated.

But there is nowt wrong with this particular model of sarnie imo. It is sort of classic - but I see the BLT as a classic as well and even the chattering classes love a BLT maybe?. I had a tuna crunch baguette from Greggs the other day. It lacked a lot of crunch and could have done with some mustard, but it was still basically quite a tasty + enjoyable sandwich.

I'll have a shot of tuna, potato back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJAEaAom5FQ

this thread is mostly people conceding to each other that they like a given good or great food, eg iberian tinned fish, tuna, mayo on fries, etc.

what is with the fucking irish and the need to do one-line summaries of threads like that's helpful

maybe somebody should come back to this topic in five or six years and ask if we got it sorted

why am I so fucking grumpy all the goddamn time

you're an ilxor?

haven't had one since the 80s and still voted classic

we can our own tuna (in little mason jars w/a pressure canner, straight off the boat) and it is goddamn delicious

classic

Sounds like *somebody* needs a tuna fish sandwich...

xxxp

we can our own tuna (in little mason jars w/a pressure canner, straight off the boat) and it is goddamn delicious

My parents brought back a bunch of salmon from Alaska that way, just wonderful.

JCLC and jim in vancouver vying to be the world's most magnanimous vegan itt

Shocking yet entirely typical tombot antihibernian sentiment itt

Will we I ask ever get it sorted

So I thought tuna casserole made with condensed canned soup (bleeugh) was a particularly midwestern thing but there you are, some UK people also mentioning it.

Does anyone do it the way I grew up with it? The sauce is bechamel. Thick bechamel, onions, tuna and then add whatever else you want (some people do corn, some apple or pineapple PS THIS IS WRONG AND AWFUL). Top with cheese and breadcrumbs or mash then cheesy topping then bake.

I am both a UK person and an exiled Midwesterner. The UK has become more attuned to both Thanksgiving and trash American food in the past decade, which may be why horrific forms of hotdish are being discussed here.

tuna sandwiches are fine (we don't use the redundant "fish" here) these tuna + soup + urine + spam casserole whatevers are obv unconscionable

I'm gonna buy tuna this weekend and do fucking awesome tuna melts. I bet Nora will love them.

Also, didn't Suzy confirm on a previous thread where I disgusted Americans that American mayo is not comparable to British mayo?

Mayo with chips is all time.

Also goes quite nicely with chili.

we can our own tuna (in little mason jars w/a pressure canner, straight off the boat) and it is goddamn delicious

My parents brought back a bunch of salmon from Alaska that way, just wonderful.

― scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Friday, February 17, 2017 3:02 AM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is so awesome

what is with the fucking irish and the need to do one-line summaries of threads like that's helpful

lolz

Also, didn't Suzy confirm on a previous thread where I disgusted Americans that American mayo is not comparable to British mayo?

I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the mayo they made

I shouted out,
Who killed Euler?
When after all
It was you and me

For reference, mayo repulsed me until I was about 18 and I first experienced chips dipped in mayo. Or fries, for Americans. Chips dipped in fries.

I couldn't eat mayo, egg yolks, or the fat on any kind of red meat because of similar "vommed it during chemotherapy" reasons I still avoid canned tuna or any kind of squash (except for pumpkin in pie) to this day.

Tuna mayo w/ diced red onion and a decent dose of black pepper = all time classic

what is with the fucking irish and the need to do one-line summaries of threads like that's helpful

lolz

― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 February 2017 09:55 (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I blame 400 years of trying to get our overlords up to speed on local factional intricacies tbh

nobody confirmed anything about there being any delicious mayo. American mayo is disgusting. English mayo, so different and so unlike its gauche cousin, is also disgusting. a fine aeoli, delicate as a spring afternoon, fresh and bright on the tongue, is fucking disgusting. is there Dutch mayo? it is disgusting. is there Spanish mayo? it is disgusting. the special, mild, tangy mayo at the sushi bar? see here old boy: it's foul shit. wherefore it does us no force which mayo we're talking about: howsobeit that they have many differences, they are one in their fitness for the garbage can, unless they find their destiny in a tuna fish sandwich.

was interesting to note a sharp decline in the sales of pasta sauces in the uk

but pasta sales are solid, presumably? i've never been a sauce buyer but that's interesting

nobody confirmed anything about there being any delicious mayo. American mayo is disgusting. English mayo, so different and so unlike its gauche cousin, is also disgusting. a fine aeoli, delicate as a spring afternoon, fresh and bright on the tongue, is fucking disgusting. is there Dutch mayo? it is disgusting. is there Spanish mayo? it is disgusting. the special, mild, tangy mayo at the sushi bar? see here old boy: it's foul shit. wherefore it does us no force which mayo we're talking about: howsobeit that they have many differences, they are one in their fitness for the garbage can, unless they find their destiny in a tuna fish sandwich.

I love how this morphs into a Kenneth Branagh monologue.

nobody confirmed anything about there being any delicious mayo. American mayo is disgusting. English mayo, so different and so unlike its gauche cousin, is also disgusting. a fine aeoli, delicate as a spring afternoon, fresh and bright on the tongue, is fucking disgusting. is there Dutch mayo? it is disgusting. is there Spanish mayo? it is disgusting. the special, mild, tangy mayo at the sushi bar? see here old boy: it's foul shit. wherefore it does us no force which mayo we're talking about: howsobeit that they have many differences, they are one in their fitness for the garbage can, unless they find their destiny in a tuna fish sandwich.

― though the tempest rages, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 17 February 2017 14:57 (forty-nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Mayo, god help us

I have only ever had processed mayo and quite like it. But if it didn't exist I couldn't imagine asking someone in a sandwich shop to rustle us up some raw egg yolk with mustard and olive oil, and dollop it on please.

was interesting to note a sharp decline in the sales of pasta sauces in the uk

but pasta sales are solid, presumably? i've never been a sauce buyer but that's interesting

― ogmor, Friday, 17 February 2017 15:22 Bookmark

i would imagine they've fallen too. #cleaneating collective neurosis hitting carbs

sales of premiumized ready meals, esp those marketed as healthy, are booming iirc

tuna sandwich = classic, how can there be people who don't like it
tuna melt = classic but i kinda get how some people don't like it

i used to put curry powder and peanuts in my tuna salad but then i got over myself

I couldn't imagine asking someone in a sandwich shop to rustle us up some raw egg yolk with mustard and olive oil, and dollop it on please.

― calzino, Friday, 17 February 2017 16:04 Bookmark

did this in a deserted gastropub in southwark once but i'd paid enough for the chips to act how i pleased

my oop norf gf at the time was mortified tho lol

sales of premiumized ready meals, esp those marketed as healthy, are booming iirc

readymeals are the worst - just a few rungs up from plane food.

beyond taste i understand their appeal to some extent but the monetary cost to the susceptible is vampiric

some of the m&s stuff is okay but i feel like it's got a lot worse over time, i guess because they cut back on salt.

i've genuinely never had one of my own volition, my mum would kool aid man thru the wall and decapitate me

returning to the matter at hand tho

i fully accept i may be alone in this but aren't tuna steaks really kind of... dull

meaty but not meat, fish but not fishy. what's the usp beyond not being something else

I would do many things for a tuna sandwich right now. Not anything, but at least several possibly questionable things.

inspired by this thread i put curry powder in my tunafish but it seems like it didn't do anything

I like powdered mustard in mine.

mayo all live in interesting times

i fully accept i may be alone in this but aren't tuna steaks really kind of... dull

meaty but not meat, fish but not fishy. what's the usp beyond not being something else

agreed - i like a tuna or swordfish steak well enough, it's nice in a hot country with a light side or whatever, but it is like the fish version of chicken breast.

Can of tuna, salt, pepper, red chilli flakes, hint of cider vinegar, spring onions, cheddar cheese, all mixed up, put on toast and lightly grilled. That was lunch today. And it was mega.

#nomayo

why hasn't the Department of Health shut down this thread

drain the swamp, put everything you find in a blender, serve on toast

Once I poached a tune steak in olive oil and after letting it cool, I pulled it apart into flakes and combine with mayo, diced kalamata olives, celery, dijon mustard, red onion, diced granny smith apples, pepper, dill and boiled eggs. Spread on crackers was one of the best snacks I've ever made.

but it is like the fish version of chicken breast.

I must also concur with this. It's a rather bland fish when cooked as a steak. Probably the best use of good tuna is in sushi. I love spicy tuna rolls.

It's wtf to me that someone would go to that trouble for a snack.

poaching a tuna steak in olive oil to make sandwich mix for a cracker is the crowning triumph of this thread

"Deliver us from evil..."

this shit smells so bad. in their own little category of sandwiches that are gross even for people who aren't eating them.

undetailed but strong sense memories of hating unfamiliar colleagues across the break room for inflicting this

What I find strange is theres plenty of other seafood that pongs way more than tuna but people seem to only ever complain about tuna being smelly.

Mackerel sandwiches aren't very common (or people cracking open a can of it at their desk).

Hardboiled eggs are another example and people do eat them at their desk and of course in the lunchroom

I love em tho

Tinned tuna is fine if you eat it soon. There are more things that smell bad that people eat. Ever since i moved to LA i find there is a lot more stinky food here that wasn't smelly where i moved from. Might be because LA is warmer and people don't keep foods at the right temperature, but it has made me more cautious of where I'm getting it from -- deli meat, beef and pork for example

I don't think of tuna as being a fishysmelly fish. I've had more offensive fish lunches at work. I had leftover fish curry once. I should have been sacked.

tuna smells gross - the smell of other fish is just a more pure fishy smell - tuna has a sort of dampness to the smell.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

dud, has mayo

There are Italian-style tuna salad sandwiches that don't have mayo. Usually lemon juice, capers, olive oil, a bit of mustard.

Which nationality is responsible for the mayo-inclusive sandwich?

some of these look SO good to me, esp the pan bagnat
http://www.foodandwine.com/blogs/7-ways-make-better-tuna-sandwich

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Eat it, dud-ers!

And by "it" I mean a delicious tuna fish sandwich.

Sanity prevails.

every day is like survival

don't worry dud voters, we classic voters will not require you to partake of even the tiniest morsel of a tuna sandwich against your wishes, with or without mayonaisse. we are a liberal bunch by and large and peaceable, if not overly provoked.

More for you!

tunafish is good for survival