The Easy Tuna Salad Sandwich That Kept 1950s Lunch Counters Running Through Every Hot Summer
When the thermometer hits 95 degrees and the kitchen feels like a punishment, an easy tuna salad sandwich is one of the smartest quick lunches you can make because it requires zero heat, zero cooking, and about ten minutes of actual effort.
Woolworth's and Walgreens lunch counters were serving this exact sandwich to hungry customers all through the hot summers of the 1950s, and the ratio they relied on, canned tuna, celery, onion, lemon, and mayo, hasn't needed improving since.
The villain here has never been the recipe; it's been the idea that lunch has to involve cooking, and on a scorching afternoon, that idea can take the day off.
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