Tuna Sarnie

[EcclesCake]

I've been reminded by another thread about something that may have been peculiar to my family.

As a child I remember tinned tuna being mixed with malt vinegar. I'm pretty sure pink and red salmon got the same treatment for our Sunday tea.

On visiting a relative aged 8-9 I was horrified to find that the tuna was mixed with salad cream........I went running for my mummy at that horrific discovery.

Now if I fancy a tuna sarnie I use mayo.....and I really fancy a tuna sarnie but I can't eat bread, have no mayo and the cucumber is only good for the chickens.

So, how have your tastes changed over the years for the preparing of tinned tuna.......and as an aside does anyone still buy tinned salmon?

[Retrochic]

I love tinned salmon! Mixed with a little vinegar and piled onto white bread rolls that have been halved and slathered with Lurpack butter. Reminds me of Sunday Teas at my nans.

[ummmm]

I love salad cream. With tinned tuna I use half salad cream half mayo.

[237SJ]

I don`t think my Mum ever bought tuna. I do remember having vinegar on prawns though.

[Mamyalynne]

Love vinegar on tinned salmon, when my Mum did us a salad tea there were always two little bowls of malt vinegar, one with sliced cucumber in and one with thinly sliced onion.

[Baldric]

^^^^
A moment on the lips C & J !
;-)

[Retrochic]

I hate tuna in brine it has to be oil -then you don't need mayo just a bit of balsamic vinegar and some flakes of Himalayan rock salt.

[joeluke]

Prefer tinned tuna and salmon to the fresh/frozen equivalents

[EcclesCake]

oh Mamya, you've just brought back a memory.

My Mum 'presenting' the sliced Spanish onion in malt vinegar as part of our summer repast.......I have a sneaking feeling she might have done similar with the cucumber too.....

[Mamyalynne]

I still do it sometimes, takes me back to my childhood.

[yinyang]

I open the tuna, tip it all into a bowl and give it to the cat ; then I make myself a nice sandwich.

[mccfluff]

tuna with mayo is fine, i like spring onions with it and sweetcorn stuffed into a pitta with loads of spinach

salad cream is just wrong and should be banned along with tinned salmon

i remember a friends sister eating tuna with malted vinegar and thinking that was really weird, but if i make tuna mayo sarnies for fatty he has me add some vinegar to it....

[corylus]

I used to get sandwiches of lettuce sprinkled in sugar and vinegar from my grandma, very tasty.

As for tinned salmon, all those bones, NEVER!

[soapnumpty]

My family always used to mix tuna with vinegar, but my husbands family mix it with mayo which I thought was very odd when I met them!

[sandyRoe]

You can buy skinless and boneless tinned salmon in M&S and Tesco. It's a bit dearer but worth the extra cost. I like a bit of mayonnaise with it.

[ethandron]

Yes, tinned salmon mixed with vinegar, my dads favourite.
I buy tinned salmon, take out the backbone thing then just mash everything else up, bones, skin and all, with a bit of salad cream just to hold it together then spread it on a sandwich and pave the top with sliced pickled beetroot..yum.
Tinned tuna gets similar treatment but half mayo, half salad cream. Used to always put chopped onion and sweetcorn in too, but can't do that anymore.
Never saw tinned tuna as a child, I think it only became popular when I was in my teens.

[shoota]

Tinned fish - yeeeukk!!

[Mosaic]

Thing is, one of the main ingredients of mayo is vinegar.
So mayo is like adding vinegar, oil salt n pepper all in one spoonful

I've taken to adding malt vinegar or balsamic to tuna. Very nice indeed.
I once had salmon butties with vinegar at a friends house and never forgot the wonder.

[shoota]

Love yinyang's answer - lol.