# tuna & macaroni salad - egg or no egg? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [August 4, 2012, 12:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-macaroni-salad-egg-or-no-egg/630414 "2012-08-04T12:11:38Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-macaroni-salad-egg-or-no-egg/630414/21 "2012-08-08T14:45:07Z")
Is this one of those Midwestern things? ---
**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:** [August 8, 2012, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-macaroni-salad-egg-or-no-egg/630414/22 "2012-08-08T16:29:08Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > Odd; I’ve never had “tuna & macaroni” salad. I’ve had tuna (eggs please) and macaroni (not my favorite, but no eggs), but never the twain have met. Actually, I completely glossed over the “macaroni” part of this question. I’ve never had tuna salad with macaroni. Hot tuna mac & cheese, yes. Tuna mac salad? No. My eggs-in-tuna-salad refers to regular tuna salad, without pasta. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2012, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-macaroni-salad-egg-or-no-egg/630414/23 "2012-08-08T16:33:08Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Is this one of those Midwestern things? Puttings eggs in it, or the whole tuna mac salad thing? Looking online, a number of websites seem to suggest it to be a Southern dish, too. But, yeah, it looks pretty Midwestern to me, overall. ---
**Author:** ![Zsofia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7bcc69/32.png) [@Zsofia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zsofia)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-macaroni-salad-egg-or-no-egg/630414/24 "2012-08-08T18:18:40Z")
Tuna macaroni salad. No, it is not a Southern thing. Good lord, that would be thrown out of any church supper I’ve ever been to. “What’s that?” “Macaroni salad?” “Why the hell does it seem to have tuna in it?” Now, tuna mac and cheese, yes - that’s what you feed the kids when they won’t eat anything that isn’t orange. ---
**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:** [August 8, 2012, 6:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-macaroni-salad-egg-or-no-egg/630414/25 "2012-08-08T18:33:28Z")
To be honest, though, growing up in the Midwest (Chicago), I’ve never encountered tuna macaroni salad, either. I think it depends on where you grew up. There’s Dixie cookbooks I’ve found online that have tuna macaroni salad. The South is a big place. So is the Midwest. This may just be one of those pan-USA things. ---
**Author:** ![Rhiannon8404](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rhiannon8404/32/17929_2.png) [@Rhiannon8404](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rhiannon8404)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2012, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-macaroni-salad-egg-or-no-egg/630414/26 "2012-08-08T18:41:19Z")
I don’t like eggs in mine. ---
**Author:** ![Floater](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/dc4da7/32.png) [@Floater](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Floater)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-macaroni-salad-egg-or-no-egg/630414/27 "2012-08-09T07:15:31Z")
Yesterdays dinner: A salad consisting of cold [fusilli](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusili), tuna, chopped up tomato, ditto onion, ditto bell pepper, ditto garlic (loads of it), cold hard boiled eggs, squeezed lime fruit and a vinaigrette made from white wine vinegar and lemon flavoured olive oil. Yummy. ---
**Author:** ![Bass\_Chick](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/43a26b/32.png) [@Bass\_Chick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bass_Chick)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2012, 1:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-macaroni-salad-egg-or-no-egg/630414/28 "2012-08-09T13:50:17Z")
> [@Zsofia](#): > > Tuna macaroni salad. No, it is not a Southern thing. Good lord, that would be thrown out of any church supper I’ve ever been to. “What’s that?” “Macaroni salad?” “Why the hell does it seem to have tuna in it?” > > Now, tuna mac and cheese, yes - that’s what you feed the kids when they won’t eat anything that isn’t orange. Yep. 😃 [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tuna-macaroni-salad-egg-or-no-egg/630414.md?page=1)