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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 1 year ago (1 children)

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] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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 1 year ago (2 children)

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 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's the pre-cooked, packaged tuna that she objects to.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

LOL! I can totally see this argument from both sides! She's right about canned tuna, but you're right about tuna salad!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Honestly, this reply raises more questions than it answers.

This feels like some Andy Kaufman shit...

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

If you find one, please post an update. I am strangely intrigued by your tuna quest.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 11 months ago

Jewel, they got the best

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

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

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Try Cozy Corner Restaurant in Logan. The pic in Caviar for their tuna salad sandwich looks like it probably has celery in it at minimum. Never heard of corn or peas in tuna salad.

Or just search yelp. There are a bunch of results around the city with photos of the sandwich for you to judge.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I've only ever gotten breakfast at the Cozy, but that's a good suggestion, thanks.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

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