Tuna / Chicken Salad
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kendra remembers...I definitely choose chicken salad over tuna.Seafood has never been my thing. More »
Posted on 09/24/08
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Whether it’s from a can or from leftovers, almost everyone’s had a chicken or a tuna salad sandwich at some point in their life. Whether you hated it or loved it, there’s no doubt that this lunchtime classic is a big part of the American lifestyle today.
Chicken salad is an economical choice for chicken leftovers. Chop the chicken meat, add in some mayonnaise and you’ve got the base for a really great salad. But what to put in it? The most common ingredients are celery, onion and pickles, though chicken salad can be found with everything from cranberries and grapes (raisins, too!) to walnuts and bell peppers. In fact, one classic combination of the chicken salad and the Waldorf salad is – no surprise here – the Waldorf Chicken Salad. Sweetened with the likes of raisins or grapes, walnuts, celery and a little bit of salt and pepper, this sweet and salty classic is a favorite for many.
Most often made with canned tuna, tuna salad’s base is much the same as the chicken salad. Most often, however, tuna salad comes with some kind of garnish, usually in the form of finely chopped pickles, onions and/or celery. Much like the Waldorf chicken salad, some folks even like to put apples and grapes in their tuna, to give it a little extra punch.
Since the advent of canned tuna in 1903, families have been enjoying tuna salad sandwiches with regularity and ease. Whether it was Charlie the Tuna hawking Starkist (“Starkist don’t want to have tunas with good taste, they want tunas that taste good!”), the many BumbleBee Tuna commercials and their hypnotic “Yum, yum bumble… BumbleBee Tuna!” ads or the lovely Chicken of the Sea mermaids, throughout the decades, families have been lured by the ease and simplicity of a quick tuna sandwich.
In fact, the base ingredients for these items are also found elsewhere – from chicken and tuna pasta salads, to the famed classic dish, the tuna casserole. Chicken and tuna salads have been and will remain cool, easy classics for a long time to come.
