# How aberrant would it be to make combo tuna-egg salad? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 23, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750 "2006-07-23T22:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/1 "2006-07-23T22:24:00Z")
I kinda want a nice, cool egg salad sandwich. I was kinda also thinking about a nice cool tuna salad sandwich. Should I be scourged were I to combine the two, and make tuna-egg salad? ---
**Author:** ![Girl\_From\_Mars](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3da27b/32.png) [@Girl\_From\_Mars](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Girl_From_Mars)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/2 "2006-07-23T22:27:59Z")
I used to buy this from a local shop - excellent - the key was the wasabi in the mayo. Although perhaps the tuna and egg were in 2 separate layers - but I see no reason you couldn’t combine the two. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/3 "2006-07-23T22:30:24Z")
Hmm, wasabi in the mayo. _That_ sounds kinda fun! ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/4 "2006-07-23T22:34:46Z")
I often combine the two. I had no idea it wasn’t allowed. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/5 "2006-07-23T22:41:49Z")
[QUOTE=Khadaji] I often combine the two. I had no idea it wasn’t allowed. [/QUOTE] And I, as well as apples, onions, sweet pickles and pecans. ---
**Author:** ![Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Tapioca\_Dextrin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tapioca_Dextrin)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/6 "2006-07-23T22:43:38Z")
Tuna and egg is a good combination. I love it on pizza. I could be in a minority of one on this one, though. ---
**Author:** ![Revtim](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/revtim/32/1042_2.png) [@Revtim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revtim)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/7 "2006-07-23T22:43:45Z")
Yeah, I’ve had that, and I liked it. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/8 "2006-07-23T22:45:58Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] And I, as well as apples, onions, sweet pickles and pecans. [/QUOTE] Sweet pickles?? You alien freak. I was thinking of adding capers. But now with the wasabi idea, it might clash. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/9 "2006-07-23T22:56:55Z")
I often use a hard boiled egg in my tuna salad, as well as a bit of onion, dill pickle, and maybe some celery. Mmmm! It’s also good with pickled jalepeno or pepperocinis. Sometimes I make tuna salad with sweet pickle relish, for those I know who like it that way. It isn’t my preferred flavor though. ---
**Author:** ![Wile\_E](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/c37758/32.png) [@Wile\_E](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wile_E)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 10:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/10 "2006-07-23T22:59:05Z")
My mother frequently made tuna and egg salad. I do the same sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Zabali\_Clawbane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/ecd19e/32.png) [@Zabali\_Clawbane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zabali_Clawbane)\ **Post date:** [July 23, 2006, 11:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/11 "2006-07-23T23:07:33Z")
Adding, try a bit of lemon pepper in tuna salad with hard boiled eggs, dill pickle, a bit of finely chopped onion, and celery salt. It’s good. ---
**Author:** ![levdrakon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/49beb7/32.png) [@levdrakon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/levdrakon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/12 "2006-07-24T00:07:50Z")
[QUOTE=Zabali\_Clawbane] Adding, try a bit of lemon pepper in tuna salad with hard boiled eggs, dill pickle, a bit of finely chopped onion, and celery salt. It’s good. [/QUOTE] Sounds good. I don’t have the dill pickle which is why I was thinking capers. I do have fresh dill growing outside though. Onion, celery, celery seed, - got that. Celery salt? What is with you barbarians and mixing salt with your favorite herbs and making it into like, a _salt_? ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/13 "2006-07-24T07:20:10Z")
How about the trifecta of tuna, potato, and egg salad together? If it’s good enough for [_Bon Appétit_](http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/318), it’s good enough for me. And _Gourmet_ chimes in with [Tuna Sandwiches Provençal](http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/1222182). ---
**Author:** ![Lama\_Pacos](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Lama\_Pacos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lama_Pacos)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 7:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/14 "2006-07-24T07:30:53Z")
Wow. The two foodstuffs in the entire world most likely to make me hurl just by thinking about them…together. :eek: ---
**Author:** ![Khadaji](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Khadaji](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khadaji)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 11:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/15 "2006-07-24T11:12:26Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] And I, as well as apples, onions, sweet pickles and pecans. [/QUOTE] I too have put sweet pickles and onions in tuna salad. Who knew I was such a reble? ---
**Author:** ![lee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lee/32/7455_2.png) [@lee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lee)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/16 "2006-07-24T11:38:17Z")
The question for me was can you make it without the boiled eggs. My mother always made tuna salad with boiled eggs in it. I hate boiled eggs, and so for years, I hated tuna salad, until one day I had a conversation with someone and they told me that boiled eggs go in egg salad, but not usually in tuna salad and restaurants served tuna salad without boiled eggs. I asked mom and she said that tuna salad was better with eggs and too expensive without them. and it went further when she put the eggs in (yes, because I picked at my single half sandwich and went hungry because there was nothing else for lunch). I felt slightly guilty the first few times I made it without eggs, but damn it tasted good! If you like eggs in it, go for it, but please warn the innocent by calling it tuna-egg salad. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 12:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/17 "2006-07-24T12:39:45Z")
[QUOTE=Walloon] And _Gourmet_ chimes in with [Tuna Sandwiches Provençal](http://www.epicurious.com/recipes/recipe_views/views/1222182). [/QUOTE] Good Gad, they use the…the oil! ---
**Author:** ![flodnak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/838e76/32.png) [@flodnak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flodnak)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/18 "2006-07-24T14:01:43Z")
[QUOTE=lee] The question for me was can you make it without the boiled eggs. My mother always made tuna salad with boiled eggs in it. I hate boiled eggs, and so for years, I hated tuna salad, until one day I had a conversation with someone and they told me that boiled eggs go in egg salad, but not usually in tuna salad and restaurants served tuna salad without boiled eggs. I asked mom and she said that tuna salad was better with eggs and too expensive without them. and it went further when she put the eggs in (yes, because I picked at my single half sandwich and went hungry because there was nothing else for lunch). [/QUOTE] My mom did the same thing. Tuna salad had eggs in it, chicken salad had eggs in it, ham salad had eggs in it, even the stuff she made sometimes with ends of assorted lunchmeat bought from the supermarket deli and called “sandwich spread” had eggs in it… Mind you, that’s the only way I like boiled eggs, so I didn’t mind, but I was surprised to discover that this was not a requirement. ---
**Author:** ![BiblioCat](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ed8c4c/32.png) [@BiblioCat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BiblioCat)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/19 "2006-07-24T14:27:29Z")
I often combine the two. A little fresh dill is good. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2006, 2:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750/20 "2006-07-24T14:39:15Z")
[QUOTE=carnivorousplant] Good Gad, they use the…the oil! [/QUOTE] In my book, good tuna in oil is _far_ better than spring water tuna. We had a discussion on this here recently, but I’m too lazy to look it up now. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-aberrant-would-it-be-to-make-combo-tuna-egg-salad/365750.md?page=2)