Jean wrote on Wed, 16 Jul 2008 17:35:18 -0400:

> Serene Vannoy wrote:
>> Tara wrote:
>>> I probably ate three or four tuna fish salad sandwiches a
>>> week when I was little. I loved them. I have never been
>>> thrilled with my own tuna fish salad; it tastes too fishy to
>>> me. I blamed it on the poorer quality of canned tuna these days.
>>>
>>> Here's how I make it: Aldi brand tuna, Duke's mayonnaise,
>>> salt, pepper, celery, sometimes onion. It's okay -- not
>>> wonderful.
>>>
>>> My mom was here this weekend and here's how she made her salad:
>>> Aldi brand tuna, Duke's mayonnaise, salt, pepper, celery. It was
>>> delicious. Proof positive that the secret ingredient is love.
>>
>> Yep, I'll buy that. :-)
>>
>> I always prefer the sandwiches James makes me to the ones I
>> make myself.
>>
>> Serene
>>
> Love, okay. I think it's also the fact the we didn't make it
> ourselves, and sometimes, too, that we don't have expectations
> for the dish. (I put in that "sometimes" because that didn't seem to
> be a factor with the OP's tuna--or, then again, maybe it was.)

The brands of tuna and Mayo are open (Kraft is fine, IMHO) and I'd add
fresh lemon and possibly a little chopped sour or sweet pickles. I think
the results are better with chunk tuna since it seems less fishy to me.

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James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

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