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Thoughts On Meat Salads

Sooner — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:37:50 GMT

Have meat salads changed for you? Rambling thoughts here but I am not very keen on old-school chicken or tuna salads now. I really wouldn't like one with as much mayo as restaurants used to put. Where I lived they were gummy with mayo.

Now I tend to use a light olive oil and vinegar or simply lemon or lime juice. I like some fruit in it, often chunks of crispy apple. And we don't eat them as a sandwich--but sometimes put it on brown rice or another grain or top a big green salad. I don't remember when the last time I had tuna or chicken salad as a sandwich--almost a must back in the day.

It is interesting to me how our food choices and what is available to buy have changed in the last century! Although where I live, "Mexican", South American is still an big part of our diet--although lighter now. Sure not the frozen Patio Mexican DInners of the 1960's!

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Imaoldhippie — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 16:48:28 GMT

I love tuna salad sandwiches. In the summer I put tuna salad on a quartered tomato.

I dont like chicken so no chicken salad for me. I do like my chef salads with ham (lunch type) or steak, or blackened shrimp and like most taco salads.

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happilyretiredgirl — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 17:08:26 GMT

I like chicken and tuna salad and egg salad. We eat it more in the hot summer with garden tomatoes and cucumbers. I like to still do a cold plate and with potatoe or pasta salads as a side served on fresh mixed greens and romaine lettuce and shredded sharp cheese. I don't use as much mayo but still add some along with apples, grapes and pine nuts, dried cranberries in the chicken salad. Tuna and egg salad I only add mayo with celery and pickles on the side.

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SaveTheTurtles — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:38:27 GMT

@Sooner OMG Patio Mexican dinners! I had forgotton all about those. I ate my fair share hear in the Midwest. I also am opposed to alll the goopy mayo used in chicken or tuna or potato salads. I prefer to make my own rather than eat that stuff from the deli case or a restaurant. I used to like Tuna salad but it just doesn't taste the same to me as it once did. I'll be making chicken salad this weekend and I put celery and walnuts in mine.

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Sooner — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 18:58:03 GMT

@SaveTheTurtles wrote:
@Sooner OMG Patio Mexican dinners! I had forgotton all about those. I ate my fair share hear in the Midwest. I also am opposed to alll the goopy mayo used in chicken or tuna or potato salads. I prefer to make my own rather than eat that stuff from the deli case or a restaurant. I used to like Tuna salad but it just doesn't taste the same to me as it once did. I'll be making chicken salad this weekend and I put celery and walnuts in mine.

@SaveTheTurtles LOL!!! Yep! Those are the ones with those tiny little "tacos!" By us it was Mexican!

You might try Tonnino tuna in the jars. To me it tastes like tuna you would not feed the cat but keep for the humans to enjoy! Not easy to find now! I get it from Amazon but Walmart has it too I learned here recently!

Did you ever put chopped apple in the chicken salad? We just love it!!!

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RedTop — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 19:01:01 GMT

I enjoy homemade chicken and ham salad; just enough mayo to hold together. I do not eat egg salad or put eggs in any meat salad.

I am still in the mood for a tuna salad sandwich, but am not going to special order any and all brands available locally stink. That nasty smell is still in my head so am not sure I could eat a good sandwich if I had one.

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SaveTheTurtles — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 20:04:36 GMT

@Sooner Thank you! No, I haven't used apple in my chicken salad but I have used grapes. I bet the apple would be good!

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ECBG — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 20:59:44 GMT

In general, I like chicken salad with lettuce on plain bread.

I will eat a little tuna salad the same way.

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jannabelle1 — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 21:40:46 GMT

I don't like cold beef or pork, so a salad with either of those meats is always a pass for me. Shrimp is great choice. I've never tired of mayo-based salads, although I don't use a lot of mayo. My favorite grocer's deli got me hooked on their white meat chicken salad with grapes, walnuts and celery and just enough mayo to hold it together. The grapes are the bomb in chicken salad - so delicious! Hubby is big on tuna salad - I'm not a fan unless I have fresh tomatoes and a little crunchy lettuce to put with it. Oil & vinegar or lemon juice doesn't cut it for me...no matter how much healthier it might be!

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Carmie — Tue, 18 Jun 2024 23:37:50 GMT

I make chicken, lobster, shrimp, egg, ham and egg salad.

I make each type a few times a year. My husband loves a good sandwich on toast.

When I make chicken salad, my favorite, I use grapes, apples, celery and walnuts and sometimes dried cranberries and a little mayo with poached chicken breasts. (Waldorf salad)

I do use a little mayo with other ingredients in the other salads, but not enough to make it sloppy. I like mayo, but not gloppy mouthfuls.

I don't remember ever ordering any of these salads from a deli or resturant. I absolutely hate onions in any salad with mayo, so I make my own. There is nothing worse than old wimpy raw onions sitting in any kind of wettness or sauce. Yuck!

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ECBG — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:00:30 GMT

I like chopped celery and egg whites.

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candys mine — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:03:16 GMT

@ECBG Me too. I use lettuce leaves or endive leaves and make little wraps. Sometimes bread is just too heavy. Sometimes it's just what I want!

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Shihtzursqmom — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 00:08:46 GMT

I had a chicken salad sandwich for lunch today from a local sandwich shop , they make it in house
It was delicious
I like mayo , sweet pickles ( I don’t like dill pickles ) , nuts ,grapes , celery and cranberries in chicken salad
In ham salad I like basic mayo and sweet pickle only
I can eat egg salad with mayo & sweet pickles only but it’s not my favorite
I ❤️homemade potato salad and pasta salad not found a store bought one I like

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JeanLouiseFinch — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 01:01:04 GMT

I'm pretty traditional and basic with my tuna salad - tuna, minced onion, diced celery, mayo, S&P.

I used to make a really tasty chicken salad with, onion, celery, red & green grapes, mayo but haven't had in a very long time.

Ham salad has never appealed to me.

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shoptilyadropagain — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 11:56:02 GMT

They haven't really changed for me. I don't mind a chicken or tuna salad sandwich every once in a while. I prefer it with verylittle mayo but I'll still eat it. Iknow I could control it if I made it myself but I don't.

Growing up, ham salad was huge in my area although my mom rarely bought/made it. I was shocked to discover that our local ham salad was really made with bologna. I think there are some delis around now that use ham now.

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beckyb1012 — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 13:25:20 GMT

I do not keep mayo in the house I have never liked it. But when I do need it for a salad or deviled eggs I just use Hidden Valley Fat Free Ranch. Works great. Love salads of any kind.

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wagirl — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:35:41 GMT

I fix chicken, salmon, shrimp, scallops and steak salads, but in strips on a bed of greens and other veggies.or as a bowl too. Usually pour ranch dressing or caesar dressing over top. Tuna is on bread. But I also like balsamic vinegar and avocado oil over top too. One of my faves is grilling romaine lettuce and making a hot caesar salad with those meats too.

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silkyk — Wed, 19 Jun 2024 15:41:47 GMT

When I think meat salad I think THAI BEEF SALAD! Now I'm hungry.