# Creamed Tuna on Toast **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 17, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914 "2008-01-17T19:17:54Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 16\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![MrSquishy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b9e5f3/32.png) [@MrSquishy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrSquishy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 7:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/1 "2008-01-17T19:17:54Z")
My favourite “comfort” food. Does anyone else make this? One can of tuna. Flake it a bit if it’s in chunks. One can of condensed cream of mushroom soup. Fresh ground black pepper. Throw it in a pot and heat it up. Plop a couple of spoons full on some multigrain toast, preferably the kind with lots of seeds and nuts and stuff. Sprinkle with a little paprika or Bacon Salt for colour. I could eat it every day. ---
**Author:** ![cher3](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/da6949/32.png) [@cher3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cher3)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/2 "2008-01-17T19:57:28Z")
We used to have that, as tired starving grad students and before I really learned to cook. I would add some frozen peas for virtue’s sake. I’d do it with leftover chicken sometimes, too. Now we mostly do tuna casserole which is the same thing, but with rice mixed in instead of bread underneath, and a bit of cheese on top. My kids prefer zucchini or spinach to the peas, though. ---
**Author:** ![thelurkinghorror](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7c8e57/32.png) [@thelurkinghorror](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/thelurkinghorror)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 8:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/3 "2008-01-17T20:27:30Z")
Wow that sounds like incredibly cheap hobo food. I must try it! I actually have about 20 cans of each. ---
**Author:** ![Pixilated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/aeb1de/32.png) [@Pixilated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pixilated)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 8:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/4 "2008-01-17T20:29:41Z")
Growing up I would call this “nursing home food” aka SOS (shit on a shingle). Despised it growing up ---
**Author:** ![Skammer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skammer/32/143_2.png) [@Skammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skammer)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/5 "2008-01-17T20:58:28Z")
I would mix the tuna and cream of 'shroom soup with elbow macaroni. Maybe add peas, but only sometimes. I need to do that again sometime when my wife is not around (she hates tuna casseroles). ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/6 "2008-01-17T21:13:01Z")
My mom, the world’s worst cook, used to make this when we were growing up. We loved it, as it was almost impossible for her to screw up. However, in our home, it was made with a very basic white sauce (butter, flour, milk), canned tuna, and canned peas. Ladle it over toasted Wonder bread. Yum - I’ll have to make some soon, when Mr. brown’s out of the house. He says it sounds like Depression era food. ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 9:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/7 "2008-01-17T21:13:54Z")
Haven’t tried it with soup, but mom used to make it with a white sauce (butter, flour, milk). If we didn’t have tuna, she’d add some chopped hard-cooked eggs. Definitely comfort food. ---
**Author:** ![Starving\_Artist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/aeb1de/32.png) [@Starving\_Artist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Starving_Artist)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 9:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/8 "2008-01-17T21:19:25Z")
Am I the only one who thought the thread’s title was an expression of exasperation? “Creamed Tuna on Toast, Mr. President, the commies are at it again!” 😃 ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/9 "2008-01-17T21:23:48Z")
[QUOTE=Pixilated] Growing up I would call this “nursing home food” aka SOS (shit on a shingle). Despised it growing up [/QUOTE] I always thought of SOS as being, very specifically, Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast. As for the Tuna dish - my mom would do the White Sauce version as well - and serve it on a baked potato. I often do the cream of mushroom version, mixed with rice. ---
**Author:** ![StGermain](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/stgermain/32/2868_2.png) [@StGermain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StGermain)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 9:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/10 "2008-01-17T21:25:55Z")
My mother (and now I) do the white sauce version. StG ---
**Author:** ![crowmanyclouds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crowmanyclouds/32/19884_2.png) [@crowmanyclouds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/crowmanyclouds)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/11 "2008-01-17T21:30:08Z")
Good, I’m not the only one to grow up on creamed peas and tuna on toast. 'Course these days it frozen peas and albacore on real toasted bread! Definitely depression/WW2 era “food”. CMC +fnord! ---
**Author:** ![Solfy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/848f3c/32.png) [@Solfy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Solfy)\ **Post date:** [January 17, 2008, 9:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/12 "2008-01-17T21:31:33Z")
I do the white sauce version. Typically I sub out biscuits for the toast, though, as I like the texture better. I think of it as the most disgusting looking food I like to eat. ---
**Author:** ![Mongo\_Ponton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/eb9ed0/32.png) [@Mongo\_Ponton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mongo_Ponton)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/13 "2008-01-18T04:39:40Z")
White sauce version over potato chips when we were poor. Which reminds me…we used to have potato chips delivered every week. They came in like a five gallon metal can and the chip guy would drop off a new can and take the old one. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/14 "2008-01-18T04:44:00Z")
You guys had _tuna_? My mom, the world’s second worse cook, just made Creamed Peas On Toast. It was good. ---
**Author:** ![ZipperJJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zipperjj/32/211_2.png) [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 6:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/15 "2008-01-18T06:23:45Z")
You guys are describing [tuna noodle casserole](http://www.cooks.com/rec/view/0,178,141187-243199,00.html) and cream chicken - the latter being the one made with white sauce and put on toast. These were absolute weekly staples in our house forever. I could eat them both every day. Yum! ---
**Author:** ![SamuelP](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8dc957/32.png) [@SamuelP](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SamuelP)\ **Post date:** [January 18, 2008, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/creamed-tuna-on-toast/433914/16 "2008-01-18T08:58:35Z")
What an odd recipe. I’ve eaten so many insects in my life, and yet, I don’t think I could stomach that combination of tuna and mushrooms on toast.