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submitted 2 years ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

The last FIVE times I've ordered a tuna salad sandwich at a diner, it's been just tuna, not tuna salad. This is very upsetting, and for the sake of preveserving my marriage I'm not able to just make tuna salad at home. Does anyone know where I can get one?

Places I know I can't get one:

  • Margie's Candies

  • Bridgeport Coffeehouse

  • Moon's Sandwich Shop (Western & Madison)

Please. It's been so long.

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[-] [email protected] 8 points 2 years ago

I'm a little horrified by this one. Either you don't know how to use a web search, or I don't know what tuna salad is. Both are worrisome, but more so that you aren't allowed to make it at home. In that case, your partner is controlling or pregnant.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago

She grew up on the coasts, and has strong opinions about how fish should be prepared; ones that don't align with my Midwestern upbringing.

The problem is, a lot of places are saying they serve a tuna salad sandwich, but the sandwich is just tuna, not tuna salad. Searching menus online won't cut it. Hence soliciting personally recommendations.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

What are you considering tuna salad? I've never seen a place that just put tuna on a sandwich, normally it's that premixed stuff with mayo only.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It has to, at a bare minimum, have celery or onion mixed in, preferably both. Also common are corn, peas, various herbs, bell peppers, olives, pickled or raw cucumber, or other garden vegetables.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

You're never going to find that in a restaurant. You'll have to make it at home.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

It's pretty common to see in the Great Plains, in diners and the like.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago)

That's sounds reasonable, but now I'm wondering why your wife would object to that.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Honestly, this reply raises more questions than it answers.

This feels like some Andy Kaufman shit...

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Jewel, they got the best

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Odd. I wondered why friends from Chicago always order tuna salad whenever they visit.

[-] [email protected] 2 points 2 years ago

Might be a bit of a drive, but Burhop's in Hinsdale has a great cranberry tuna salad.

[-] [email protected] 1 points 2 years ago

Jimmy John's or subway? I've never cared for the Jimmy John's version, but the subway always was ok.

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