Tuna Salad, Chicken Salad Etc.

[debmidge]

This does bear repeating to those who don't know this, but many restaurants, diners and food stores who serve tuna salad, chicken salad, potato salad are adding bread crumbs into the salads to "stretch" them. This will be a source of unintentional glutening. Keep that in mind when ordering. Sometimes the salads are not made by the restaurant - they are sold already made to the restaurant/diner and the waitress may not know if it contains gluten or not. The only way to know is if they make the salads by hand and can assure you upside down and backwards that they don't add bread crumbs......

So a "beware" especially to newbies...

[Guest digmom1014]

Thank you so much! This information saved me many hours of pain!I was actually thinking of ordering a chicken salad, it looked so good at the last place I ate. I had the smoked turkey instead.

[debmidge]

I want to point out that I learned this in 2 ways

1) A co worker of mine whose family owned diners and restaurants clued me in on this...her uncle's diner did make the tuna salad by hand, however they included bread crumbs to stretch it out.

2) I purchased some tuna salad at the supermarket, already made, and it had an ingredient label on it which stated wheat (bread crumbs) in it.

[new to LI]

i am so happy to be home on long island (however short lived ) b well in plainview has hands down the best chicken salad in the world.