Welcome to #CheckIn for Sunday, May 17
Hey there, Cass here!
A new old fav at our house is tuna burgers. They are an open faced toasted sandwitch with tinned tuna, mayo, green relish, boiled egg and cheese. My tuna sandwiches only have tuna, mayo and green onions between 2 slices of white bread. Yes, I'm a child of the North American 70s
If you make tuna burgers, what makes them different than tuna sandwiches? If you don't make them, create a recipe similar to a tuna burger - feel free to replace the tuna with spam/corned beef or other local tinned protein.
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That's comforting. I mean that truly.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Fred catches a lot of fish when we're away so we eat fresh @DeanC
@Griff Ferrell just make sure it's not cheaper tip prep yourself. I recently bought tinned beans (to go on toast) but that's rare because it is a lot cheaper to do at home.
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Hot Tuna - Sunny Day Strut
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Karl Auerbach
in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •When I was a kid the cheap canned fish was salmon.
I remember going down to the docks and looking at the boats of the Starkist tuna fleet.
I never developed a taste for canned tuna, but I do find it OK in fresh form. My wife is a total salmon lover, so we have that rather frequently - I like it with lots of peppercorns and mango salsa.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • •Typing Sandwich is autocompleted on this phone to Sandwich Islands.. Screw you Earl IV :D
Occasionally I did buy tuna sandwiches from convenience stores, because you know,
lazy bastardconvenience. Only when in England was there finesse enough in it to make me want to savour every bite. Here on the continent the supermarket convenience shelf stuff its cheap, kinda filling, but very boring.Since Vietnamese Banh Mi is easy to have here that is a so much better choice.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Tuna salad around here is tuna, mayo, and relish or (if I'm feeling really ambitious and have the required ingredient on hand) celery. I don't think I've ever been ambitious enough to make a tuna melt.
Can we talk about open-faced sandwiches? Are they really a thing?? I'm told that's the reason why my (European, gf) bread comes in annoyingly odd-numbered packages 😒 I would make such a mess trying to eat like that, wtf.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •tuna salad
tuna
mayo
mustard
relish
apple/grapes
celery
egg
freshly ground pepper
on a bed of lettuce
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Mark's Tuna salad sandwich
Tuna ( water pack )
dijon mustard ( this is the primary wetting agent )
mayo ( a small amount )
TJ's Spicy Dynamite Sauce ( vegan spicy mayo )
TJ's Italian Bomba hot pepper sauce ( or Harissa if I have some open )
Diced spicy pickle
diced green onion
optional diced green olive stuffed with garlic or jalapeno
Toasted ciabatta roll
tasty sharp cheddar or aged gouda
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those reasons are why it is not a pantry staple here any longer
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Tuna Melt:
Albacore, water packed, mixed with, onion, mayo, lemon juice, oregano, salt, and pepper, (optional plain yoghurt for mayo + lemon juice)
Tomato slice
Sharp cheddar, gouda, provolone or swiss
Whole grain bread, buttered one side.
Toast assembled sandwich, buttered side out in skillet on low.
Fuck me, now I want one.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Lazy-butt? Moi?
(Hmm... I think I'll make these instead of the tuna melt for lunch)
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •@Griff Ferrell Thanks. I try to check in at least most days because I notice when others don't. For example, Bob Lai disappeared a while back, and that's our loss. He had already ignored me, because I favored Kamala over Joe when Joe had that awful debate performance, but I still think he's a good egg. It's too bad when people who agree on all but one point decide to let that one point be the wedge between them. As one of my favorite authors wrote, though:
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You completely understand my post.
I was fortunate to see Mr. Vonnegut lecture three times.
Long time favorite, and great quote.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • •You remind me a Vonnegut book is in the lower section of the unread books pile here. Wonder when I will ever get to..
Back to tuna, and this does not parse well in any English translation, but I'll describe, because canned tuna.
Back when environmental consciousness grew here, late 1990s, trawler fishing and such brute force methods gave bad publicity (maybe from Greenpeace, or another org. It went big at the time). So the canned tuna industry thought up a label in order to mark their own product as environmentally conscious and ethically clean. That included reacting to bad press that dolphins were caught and had died from tuna fishing. The PR depts could not have that report stick.
So what they did was redesign and label the stuff inside as "dolphin, caught in a friendly way". Kinda like what the LLM of choice generated for the visuals here. The layout determined the meaning by having a blank space between the first two words. Without it the text would have been clear in its message of not hurting Flipper. Well, not here:
Maximum embarassement ensued. Industry ended up with another, hastily knit follow-up campaign to clean up their mess and make clear no way had they ever sold canned dolphin, well ofcourse they had not.
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •I do like tuna sandwiches, or in general the German "sandwich" aka Belegte Brötchen; you will find that in nearly every train station bakery.
From veggie to sausage to Schnitzel there is a wide range
Some of them are just with plain butter, others have this remoulade/mayonnaise stuff. I prefer the plain ones with butter.
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in reply to Christoph S • •Tuna specifically might be rare though. As you can see, fried stuff rules the convenience sector: meatballs, breaded chicken, kinda on the heavy side of things
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in reply to CheckIn Posting • • •Tuna, well if canned it becomes a tuna melt, mixed with mayo and sometimes sweet relish, slice of cheese (probably Jarlsberg or pepperjack) and sometimes a slice of tomato and toasted, sometimes with lettuce added in before serving.
But A tuna Burger would be a store bought cut of tuna in roughly burger size with tartar sauce and lettuce,
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