# So how do you make your tuna salad?

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [December 10, 2010, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-make-your-tuna-salad/563631 "2010-12-10T05:19:26Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 11:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-make-your-tuna-salad/563631/41 "2010-12-11T11:09:21Z")

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> [@Frank](#):
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> I’m getting tired of hard-boiled eggs showing up in everything that involves mayo/Miracle Whip and has a name that ends in “salad” all of a sudden. They’re OK in potato salad, more or less. Tuna salad? Chicken salad? Not hardly.

It’s actually a pretty traditional salad - Salade Niçoise or insalata nizzard, although you dress it with a vinaigrette. [Here’s one](http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/saladenicoise_6572).

I had an absolute beauty while on holiday a few months ago. It was all the standard stuff piled on a plate. With capers and mustard seeds mixed through the salad. The fish was grilled and placed atop as a whole fillet and instead of hard boiled eggs a poached egg sat on top of it all. On the side was a small pot of aïoli.

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**Post date:** [December 11, 2010, 1:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-how-do-you-make-your-tuna-salad/563631/42 "2010-12-11T13:56:39Z")

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Tuna salad is the one thing I still use Miracle Whip instead of mayonnaise to make. The zip kinda tastes like the sweet relish, which I can never justify buying for it’s limit use. If I make a sandwich, and I have some, I’ll add lettuce and/or bell peppers.

I do also make a mayo version–but it also involves apples and grapes. It’s essentially a chicken salad (ala Arby’s) with tuna. And it usually gets added to noodles, rather than made into a sandwich.

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