Is this one of those Midwestern things?
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.
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.
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.
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.
I don’t like eggs in mine.
Yesterdays dinner: A salad consisting of cold fusilli, 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.
Yep. 