Tuna fish sandwiches: C/D

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"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.

calzino, Thursday, 16 February 2017 22:39 (seven years ago) link

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

scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Thursday, 16 February 2017 22:58 (seven years ago) link

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

Heavy Doors (jed_), Thursday, 16 February 2017 23:58 (seven years ago) link

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.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 February 2017 00:51 (seven years ago) link

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

El Tomboto, Friday, 17 February 2017 01:20 (seven years ago) link

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

El Tomboto, Friday, 17 February 2017 01:21 (seven years ago) link

why am I so fucking grumpy all the goddamn time

El Tomboto, Friday, 17 February 2017 01:21 (seven years ago) link

you're an ilxor?

scattered, smothered, covered, diced and chunked (WilliamC), Friday, 17 February 2017 01:47 (seven years ago) link

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

though the tempest rages, (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Friday, 17 February 2017 02:00 (seven years ago) link

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

classic

a Radiohead album stamping on a human face, forever (sleeve), Friday, 17 February 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link

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

xxxp

nickn, Friday, 17 February 2017 02:14 (seven years ago) link

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, 17 February 2017 03:02 (seven years ago) link

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

imago, Friday, 17 February 2017 03:06 (seven years ago) link

Shocking yet entirely typical tombot antihibernian sentiment itt

Will we I ask ever get it sorted

Betsy DeVos Ayes (darraghmac), Friday, 17 February 2017 07:42 (seven years ago) link

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.

Stoop Crone (Trayce), Friday, 17 February 2017 08:00 (seven years ago) link

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.

jane burkini (suzy), Friday, 17 February 2017 08:04 (seven years ago) link

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

wins, Friday, 17 February 2017 09:29 (seven years ago) link

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.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 17 February 2017 09:35 (seven years ago) link

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

just sayin, Friday, 17 February 2017 09:40 (seven years ago) link

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 (seven years ago) link

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

droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 17 February 2017 10:31 (seven years ago) link

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.

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Friday, 17 February 2017 10:35 (seven years ago) link

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.

jane burkini (suzy), Friday, 17 February 2017 10:50 (seven years ago) link

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

challop, Friday, 17 February 2017 11:07 (seven years ago) link

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

Betsy DeVos Ayes (darraghmac), Friday, 17 February 2017 11:26 (seven years ago) link

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 (seven years ago) link

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 (seven years ago) link

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.

ornate orchestral arrangements (DJP), Friday, 17 February 2017 15:25 (seven years ago) link

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

Betsy DeVos Ayes (darraghmac), Friday, 17 February 2017 15:47 (seven years ago) link

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.

calzino, Friday, 17 February 2017 16:04 (seven years ago) link

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

r|t|c, Friday, 17 February 2017 16:12 (seven years ago) link

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

Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 17 February 2017 16:16 (seven years ago) link

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

Guayaquil (eephus!), Friday, 17 February 2017 16:17 (seven years ago) link

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

r|t|c, Friday, 17 February 2017 16:24 (seven years ago) link

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.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 February 2017 16:29 (seven years ago) link

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

r|t|c, Friday, 17 February 2017 16:32 (seven years ago) link

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.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Friday, 17 February 2017 16:34 (seven years ago) link

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

r|t|c, Friday, 17 February 2017 16:37 (seven years ago) link

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

r|t|c, Friday, 17 February 2017 16:39 (seven years ago) link

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

the world's little sunbeam (in orbit), Friday, 17 February 2017 16:59 (seven years ago) link

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

j., Friday, 17 February 2017 17:24 (seven years ago) link

I like powdered mustard in mine.

the world's little sunbeam (in orbit), Friday, 17 February 2017 17:32 (seven years ago) link

mayo all live in interesting times

F♯ A♯ (∞), Friday, 17 February 2017 17:42 (seven years ago) link

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.

Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Saturday, 18 February 2017 09:21 (seven years ago) link

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

Hey Bob (Scik Mouthy), Saturday, 18 February 2017 12:55 (seven years ago) link

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

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 18 February 2017 13:01 (seven years ago) link

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

imago, Saturday, 18 February 2017 13:21 (seven years ago) link

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.

JacobSanders, Saturday, 18 February 2017 13:34 (seven years ago) link

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.

o. nate, Sunday, 19 February 2017 02:28 (seven years ago) link

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

Heavy Doors (jed_), Sunday, 19 February 2017 02:38 (seven years ago) link


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