Tuna fish sandwiches: C/D

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