# What's your favorite chicken salad sandwich recipe? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 28, 2018, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-chicken-salad-sandwich-recipe/807661 "2018-01-28T16:36:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [January 31, 2018, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-chicken-salad-sandwich-recipe/807661/21 "2018-01-31T22:20:26Z")
Mayo, Italian dressing and hot giardiniera. Served up on a sub roll with lettuce and tomato - maybe provolone if I’m in the mood. ---
**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 8:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-chicken-salad-sandwich-recipe/807661/22 "2018-02-01T20:35:43Z")
You’ve given me some great alternatives to try in chicken salad. Looking forward to many tasty sandwiches. Thanks! ---
**Author:** ![nightshadea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/7ba0ec/32.png) [@nightshadea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nightshadea)\ **Post date:** [February 1, 2018, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-chicken-salad-sandwich-recipe/807661/23 "2018-02-01T21:18:52Z")
> [@Ukulele\_Ike](#): > > I grew up with the occasional sandwich of egg salad, or tuna salad, or ham salad (this last may be a Cleveland thing — i”ve never seen it on the east coast — ground cooked ham mixed with mayo, mustard, chopped dill pickle, and maybe some chopped hard-boiled egg). > > Leftover chicken was always torn to pieces, placed carefully on a lightly buttered piece of Jewish rye, covered with lettuce leaf and sliced fresh ripe tomato, and topped with another slice of rye, judiciously mayoed and salt and peppered. Well theres a certain “mock” ham salad that the U.S rationing board made semi famous because grandma and parents …its as you described but their version used chunk bologna ---
**Author:** ![teela\_brown](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/d9b06d/32.png) [@teela\_brown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/teela_brown)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-chicken-salad-sandwich-recipe/807661/24 "2018-02-02T00:03:39Z")
I poach one or two chicken breasts slowly, then dice them very finely while they’re still warm. Then I add just enough mayo to barely bind the meat together, together with finely chopped green onions and plenty of coarse cracked black pepper. A touch of lemon juice, too. I like it on rye or white toast. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-chicken-salad-sandwich-recipe/807661/25 "2018-02-02T04:25:17Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > Well theres a certain “mock” ham salad that the U.S rationing board made semi famous because grandma and parents …its as you described but their version used chunk bologna My family MAY have included chopped bologna in ham salad. If I were to make it today, I wouldn’t. Not likely to anyway…the Ukulele Lady certainly wouldn’t eat it. And the ham needs to be GROUND, not chopped, and it would be too much of a hassle to clean out the cast iron hand-turned meat grinder. ---
**Author:** ![Ukulele\_Ike](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/df788c/32.png) [@Ukulele\_Ike](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ukulele_Ike)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 4:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-chicken-salad-sandwich-recipe/807661/26 "2018-02-02T04:29:30Z")
I love how so many here are saying “just enough mayo to hold the meat together.” I have fond memories of the tuna salad “grinders” at Yorkside Pizza, New Haven, during my college days. Toasted hero roll, melted white American cheese, shredded lettuce, sliced tomatoes, and “just enough tuna to hold the mayonnaise together.” ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 6:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-chicken-salad-sandwich-recipe/807661/27 "2018-02-02T06:08:10Z")
> [@nightshadea](#): > > Well theres a certain “mock” ham salad that the U.S rationing board made semi famous because grandma and parents …its as you described but their version used chunk bologna Try SPAM[sup]®[/sup] salad sandwiches. Run the meat through a meat grinder. Mix in Miracle Whip\* and sweet pickle relish. Chill for an hour. Make sandwiches with soft white bread. No, really. They’re very good. \*It has to be Miracle Whip. SPAM[sup]®[/sup] is fatty and salty. Mayonnaise is fatty and salty. They don’t compliment each other. Miracle Whip is sweet, and not fatty and salty. It counteracts the fatty saltiness of the SPAM[sup]®[/sup]. ---
**Author:** ![salinqmind](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/3ec8ea/32.png) [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-chicken-salad-sandwich-recipe/807661/28 "2018-02-02T14:22:00Z")
We bought a grinder specifically for grinding up chunks of the leftover spiral ham from Christmas or Thanksgiving. Mixed with ground drained dill or sweet pickles and mayonnaise, I could eat my weight in it. Sandwich or crackers, the best! It can also be frozen in baggies for a month or two if there is a lot…Dunkin Donuts here sells chicken salad on a toasted croissant that is out of this world, a little sweet. (It arrives at the shops in little sealed cups from some massive food source). I don’t know what makes it taste so good. I thought it might be, god forbid, part Miracle Whip and tried a dab of that, but no, it was just turned foul from the vile Miracle Whip. It was mayonnaise only…My own chicken salad, leftover rotisserie chicken if any, or a plain breast - white meat only! - diced, with diced celery, lots of mayo, salt and pepper is all I need. (not as good as ham and pickle, though). I like it diced quite fine, not big chunks. ---
**Author:** ![davidm](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/davidm/32/225_2.png) [@davidm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davidm)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-chicken-salad-sandwich-recipe/807661/29 "2018-02-02T14:33:46Z")
This thread reminds me of something my mother used to make. She put bologna and sweet pickles through a grinder then mixed in some Miracle Whip. I used to love that stuff. I don’t know the proportions but, if I’m ever allowed solid food again, I may try to duplicate it. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [February 2, 2018, 11:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-chicken-salad-sandwich-recipe/807661/30 "2018-02-02T23:06:59Z")
> [@Sicks\_Ate](#): > > I used a Costco rotisserie chicken to make some yesterday. That’s a pretty damn good start. The Costco near me sells packages of cooked and diced chicken that is obtained from their rotisserie birds. Yummy and extremely convenient. mmm [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whats-your-favorite-chicken-salad-sandwich-recipe/807661.md?page=1)