# I Pit "Cafe Society" people **URL:** \ **Category:** The BBQ Pit\ **Created:** [February 8, 2025, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051 "2025-02-08T15:52:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 11
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/201 "2025-02-10T17:36:40Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > Surely you don’t put chopped dill pickles in tuna salad? 😱 I cannot imagine it any other way. Tuna, mayo, diced dills, a bunch of onion powder (not salt). On warmed, slightly crisped sourdough bread. Never toasted. That is the One True Way of tuna salad sandwiches. > [@Seanette](#): > > WHY would you put such oversweetened stuff in there? Do you not actually want to taste tuna? You tell 'er! Bravo @Seanette. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 5:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/202 "2025-02-10T17:54:53Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Hehehe, my tuna salad ingredients list is very short: tuna, mayo. Mine is shorter - tuna. There is _one_ place that I know of that does a tuna hoagie, _not_ a tuna salad hoagie, as in they open a can of tuna & spread it on the bread instead of deli meats. When I go there, that’s one of a couple sandwiches that I like from them that make the rotation. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/203 "2025-02-10T17:55:34Z")
No, no, no. Tuna, mayo, sweet relish, chopped celery and a touch of lemon pepper. Scooped up with Bugles or stuffed into a tomato. ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/204 "2025-02-10T18:03:25Z")
Bugles? **Bugles?** Dear god, where have we gone wrong? How have we failed dear @silenus to leave them in such a desecrated and degraded state? Oh, the humanity! ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/205 "2025-02-10T18:14:40Z")
Hehehe, my step grandmother introduced me to Bugles. That made me decide that grandma had a weird taste in snack foods, as I was definitely not a fan. > [@Spiderman](#): > > Mine is shorter - tuna. Hehehe, and my wife thought I was weird for just mixing tuna+mayo together and eating it. ---
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 6:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/206 "2025-02-10T18:23:36Z")
👹👹👹👹👹 yes ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/207 "2025-02-10T18:24:52Z")
Well, there is other stuff on it, lettuce, onion, (optional) cheese, (a little) oil, seasoning. Just no mayo ---
**Author:** ![Jasmine](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jasmine/32/2964_2.png) [@Jasmine](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jasmine)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 6:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/208 "2025-02-10T18:26:43Z")
> [@DaveUnknown](#): > > CAN’T YOU FCKING PEOPLE MAKE YOUR OWN REUBENS? FFS Apparently, you can’t either if you think one puts mayonnaise on a Reuben. I do use mustard, though, cause I totally LOVE good mustards. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/209 "2025-02-10T18:34:57Z")
Hehehe, nah. The complete list for me is: tuna, mayo, preferably eaten on crackers. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/210 "2025-02-10T18:43:57Z")
> [@Spiderman](#): > > …cheese… CHEESE?? With tuna?? I think not. I know there is supposedly an abomination called a (ewww) _tuna melt._ I refuse to acknowledge its existence. If God had wanted cheese and fish to go together, he would have given cows gills, or fish a stomach with four compartments. We can agree (sort of) to disagree over the types of pickles that go with tuna 🤢 , but cheese? No, sir. That crosses a line. [![](https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExNG9lYzRjc29tZTl6Y2YybjA3YzN1dGFlMHp5aXZ3a295YTg3ZnowOSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/26BGDEJS1QPcyfako/giphy.gif) ](https://media.giphy.com/media/v1.Y2lkPTc5MGI3NjExNG9lYzRjc29tZTl6Y2YybjA3YzN1dGFlMHp5aXZ3a295YTg3ZnowOSZlcD12MV9naWZzX3NlYXJjaCZjdD1n/26BGDEJS1QPcyfako/giphy.gif) ---
**Author:** ![LSLGuy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lslguy/32/5813_2.png) [@LSLGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LSLGuy)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/211 "2025-02-10T20:41:01Z")
> [@scabpicker](#): > > Hehehe, my step grandmother introduced me to Bugles. That made me decide that grandma had a weird taste in snack foods, as I was definitely not a fan. I remember when they were first introduced. To great fanfare and much advertising. Per **[Bugles (snack) - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bugles_(snack))**, this was 1966 and I was 8. At the very center of the age demographic for loving very ersatz weird science creations misleadingly sold as food. This was also the same era that gave us so many other weird science snacking abominations. Tab & Fresca being two obvious items, but they were legion. I loved most of the weird science stuff; I was not a fussy or even slightly health-oriented little boy. Grease, salt, & science? Gimme gimme gimme … So of course we influenced, yeah, that’s the word … influenced … Mom to get some for us. I, and literally all my fellow kids, thought Bugles were _awful_. They pretty much disappeared from store shelves, at least in SoCal, for at least a decade. Then made a slight comeback in a few markets. I started seeing them regularly again maybe 10 years ago. Wiki says they’ve been continuously produced since 1966. But I don’t know where in hell they’ve been sold from the mid 70s to the mid 20-teens. Not where I’ve been. But I do know, having tasted one recently at a party, that they’re still vile. Even using my best recollection of kid-style tasting standards. ---
**Author:** ![scabpicker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/scabpicker/32/8268_2.png) [@scabpicker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/scabpicker)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/212 "2025-02-10T20:47:59Z")
> [@LSLGuy](#): > > But I don’t know where in hell they’ve been sold from the mid 70s to the mid 20-teens. Not where I’ve been. Hehe, my grandmother lived in Sacramento. Maybe she was in north California, keeping them in production single-handed. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 8:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/213 "2025-02-10T20:51:12Z")
I like apple in Tuna salad. Celery I can live without. Please, please no English peas in the tuna. Reminds me of hospital food. ---
**Author:** ![Disinfectus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/disinfectus/32/11085_2.png) [@Disinfectus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Disinfectus)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/214 "2025-02-10T21:24:17Z")
I make my tuna salad with a little mayo, but I prefer it on the dryer side. Although I have both dill and sweet pickle relish on hand, for some reason I prefer sweet for tuna salad. Probably a comfort food thing. I dice a little celery into it, and liberally add pepper, with a touch of onion and garlic powder, and a sprinkle of marjoram. Just had some yesterday and it was delicious. ---
**Author:** ![Spiderman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spiderman/32/230_2.png) [@Spiderman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spiderman)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 9:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/215 "2025-02-10T21:55:52Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > CHEESE?? With tuna?? > > I think not. I know there is supposedly an abomination called a (ewww) _tuna melt._ I refuse to acknowledge its existence. > > If God had wanted cheese and fish to go together, he would have given cows gills, or fish a stomach with four compartments. > > We can agree (sort of) to disagree over the types of pickles that go with tuna 🤢 , but cheese? No, sir. That crosses a line. With your logic… a pickle can’t move on its own. A cow can go it the water but a fish can’t get near a pickle (cuke) on land on its own if it wants to live. So cheese gets closer to tuna than pickles do. ---
**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:** [February 10, 2025, 9:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/216 "2025-02-10T21:58:45Z")
> [@Jasmine](#): > > Apparently, you can’t either if you think one puts mayonnaise on a Reuben. I do use mustard, though, cause I totally LOVE good mustards I mean, if you’re using Russian dressing or Thousand Island, there’s plenty of mayo there. I don’t know if that’s what was meant, but that’s the only thing that makes sense to me. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/217 "2025-02-10T22:03:12Z")
Nice logic. I’m impressed, don’t believe it but it was clever, I give you that. 😅 ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/218 "2025-02-10T22:31:55Z")
> [@Beckdawrek](#): > > I like apple in Tuna salad. > Celery I can live without. I’m not real big on celery anywhere. I don’t think I’ve had apple in tuna salad, but mrs. dirtball will often put grapes in it. Cut 'em in half and sprinkle 'em in. Good stuff. ---
**Author:** ![ThelmaLou](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thelmalou/32/390_2.png) [@ThelmaLou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ThelmaLou)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/219 "2025-02-10T23:05:37Z")
Logic? Who said anything about logic? ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [February 10, 2025, 11:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051/220 "2025-02-10T23:52:09Z")
> [@ThelmaLou](#): > > If God had wanted cheese and fish to go together, he would have given cows gills, or fish a stomach with four compartments. What about bagels with lox and cream cheese? Got a problem with that, punk? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051.md?page=10) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-pit-cafe-society-people/1014051.md?page=12)