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Until my early 20's, the smell of can of tuna would drive me from the room, if not the house. Then I tried sushi (tuna), and tuna filets, and liked them...so I gave tuna fish another try. I LOVE IT. Tuna melts are so yummy.

My mom likes boiled eggs in her tuna salad. I love olives, roasted red peppers, etc. in mine. The great thing is you can put almost anything in a tuna salad and it's still (relatively) healthy and delicious.

@blackolive - when I was a kid and invited to birthday parties I told the moms that I was allergic to cake - when it was really the fact that even back then I HATED that "bakery icing" on cakes....blech. I was such a little liar.

I do like watermelon, I have some every now and then, it just makes my glands swell and my throat scratchy. That's why it's almost impossible for me to order a fruit plate - all melon!

I'm with GrizDave - raspberry jam for me please!

Dipping stuff in mayo is not necessarily a southern thing...it's also a Belgian thing. The South doesn't have the market cornered on fatty food you know! :-) (BTW: I'm not Southern. I've barely even been to the South).

MMMM I want to make them too! I'll tell you how they turn out...

How much is 365 canned tuna vs Sunkist/Chicken of the Sea? We'll probably be out and about shopping all day today, I may stop by Whole Foods. We need to restock our fridge anyway. >.>

Everyone should always have canned tuna in their pantry. It's saved my hungry butt more than once. I still love fresh tuna, but it is not something you can always have on hand or have time to go get or can afford.

Writing about tuna does not cause mercury poisoning at least, so happily my blogging on tuna for Mother's Day post is done.

Thanks for the inspiration, all. :)

I'm Rosezilla (named for my three year old daughter and the giant lizard thing that stomped Tokyo...it's what I call her when she's being...how you say...willful). My real handle is Mandy. I live in Santa Barbara County again after growing up here, but lived for 11 years in western Sonoma County...home of fabulous food and wines. It spoiled me rotten, to become an adult surrounded by all of that luscious produce and foodie opportunity. I managed a microbrewery's kitchen for 6 years, and have SERIOUS opinions about ales, should anyone care for them. Now I'm a home cook primarily, although I do a little catering here and there. My daughter's favorite foods are salmon and broccoli, so I feel as though I've triumphed a bit over the three-year-old beige-food diet. We do, however, eat at McDonald's every Friday after school...it's our little Happy Meal indulgence...and those tiny cheeseburgers are SOOO good. I live with and cook for my mother, as well. I am dating a high school band director, who has actually LOST weight being with me, as he's eating more asparagus and less fast food. I think that size 14 should be the new size 6. I am curvy, healthy, happy and active...and think that excellent foods should be part of everyone's diet. I am active in the "S'Cool Food" movement here, which tries to bring local and sustainable healthy food into school cafeterias. And I love, love, love this website.

Though it seems like something you'd only love or hate, I'm going to have to go with the in between. In other words, I have to be in the mood for tuna. I don't mind it out of the can but sometimes the smell and the idea of getting that tuna water all over my hands isn't that appealing.

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