Tuna-berry Sandwich (1977) on Sandwiches of History 

Keeping peppers in the freezer to grate has gone straight onto my list of kitchen hacks.

Grating a frozen serrano pepper onto a sandwich.. Brilliant!

Chicken instead of tuna. Wait to put the cranberry slice on after heating. Might be something worth a try.

This recipe is bringing 'throwing together all the random things left in my pantry' energy

Nope, soup on my toasty sando, just nope. Thanks for taking one for the team, Barry. Better luck next time. ☺️

Barry needs to get a Sandwiches of History bib for these extra-messy sandwiches. 😂

I feel like "just dehydrate the pepper" kinda misses the point. It's easy to get dried chili peppers, and I know Berry frequently uses them as a plus-up. But stable fresh chili isn't as trivial. If freezing has more of the fresh chili flavor contribution, that seems worth it.

We've been doing the freezer to grater thing for years. Ginger root especially.

This calls for a Tuna-Barry remix.

Omg. Frozen Serrano on a micro plane. It’s brilliant.

It's a bizarre sandwich, but "not horrific" is my favourite description yet!

This is weird, let's try it is my motto tbh. Barry being the bright spark in my day as always

Thanksgiving of the Sea. I love tuna and I love a good Thanksgiving sandwich. You lost me at cream of anything. That's a deal breaker.

very generous rating, I don't think I could have swallowed that canned soup / sandwich!

Cranberry "sauce" is an affront to all of my senses, but the rest sounds good! Thanks bro.

Turkey. How hard would it have been for the original authors to think "Turkey"??

Ohhhhhhhhhh as soon as I saw the cranberry sauce, I knew it was gonna be good!! Ok, maybe not great, but good. The coffee shop I worked at years ago sold a sandwich called the California Turkey sandwich, and it was cream cheese, cranberry sauce just like that, and turkey on whole wheat. So good. I make it to this day. Also - I would argue freezing and grating a chile like that is totally different from dehydrating it. Closer to fresh. Yum.

So many of these make me go "Nooooooo," immediately and very often I don't change my opinion. One my great (born 1941) was fond of when I was a child was tomato, miracle-whip, and pepper. Probably a depression era sandwich.

I've just discovered this channel and I kind of love how no matter how gross the concept is, there's no over-the-top retching and spitting over the sink. It's just "yeah I see what they were going for but it doesn't quite work." It's kind of refreshing.

Holy moly what an unusual sandwich with the plus up being fittingly unusual as well, but I do appreciate the ingenuity of utilizing a frozen serrano like that

This is the taste of my childhood. I think my Mom might've picked the recipe up from the same place this originated. In our home it was always an open faced kind of situation, and mom used cream of mushroom soup instead and no celery. I'm in my 50's now and still make it every now and then, but usually just for myself…my wife and kids think it's weird. Ahhh the 70's.

When the cranberry made it's appearance on the scene, I backtracked to make sure I had heard and seen tuna with my own eyes, and not spicken or spurkey.

I guess one thing I’ve learned by watching your videos, is the seemingly voluminous amount of sandwich recipes, that call for fish or water creatures. I grew up in cattle country, where a sandwich typically was made with meat or fowl. Who knew?😜😜

Great Entrance!!

Chicken salad works surprisingly well with cranberry. You will never catch me dumping sauce onto a sandwich (too messy to eat). Maybe the soup could be used as a dip.

You are a hero for trying a sandwich like this for the rest of us. The grated pepper was a great addition. Still don't want to try it though 😅

Grated peppers, interesting

modern day Prometheus over here with this pepper technique

As an Australian I was sure the cranberry sauce was pickled beetroot, and I was like hell yes this sandwich is awesome lol. Then the heating up with the celery and the soup on top it took a few turns.

You're a braver man than I.

Campbell's Cream of Chicken Soup also makes an appearance on the "Edible Glop of History" channel. I suspect it's one of those synchronicities that Sting is always going on about.

I don't know if I'm the only one, but I believe that once a sandwich becomes too messy to eat with your hands, it ceases to be a sandwich. When the knife and fork comes out it becomes a hot shot or a casserole. 🤷🤷

No need for a dehydrator. Peppers will typically dry out nicely, even here in damp Seattle, if you just let them hang out where they can get some air. I buy my peppers at the restaurant supply store in 4 lb packages, and since there’s only me eating them I usually have a fair number left at the end of the week. I alternate letting them dry and fermenting them, as the mood strikes me. The peppers usually ripen as they dry. So my last batch of serranos all turned red. They make a really fiery powder. I also have a batch of jalapeños fermenting ATM. Lacto fermentation is fun and easy. I highly recommend buying too many peppers as a standard practice.

When this said “berry” I wasn’t expecting a slab of cranberry, but considering the year it came out in it makes sense. 😂

Barry out-Mexicanned me with the frozen Serrano idea

Great intro!

Another slick intro!

My theory is... it was the 70s. For whatever reason, there's a span of maybe 15 years where there was a big canned tuna push and as such tuna started to appear in a lot of dishes. I don't think this is too far away from the infamous tuna casserole of Welcome Back Kotter fame. If you had two things in your working-class pantry, it was likely a can of Campbell's Soup and a tin of tuna. I suspect that if there was an original recipe out there, it was indeed a chicken salad sandwich. I also suspect that that tuna inclusion recipe may date back to the 60s when Franco-American owned BOTH Campbell's and Bumble Bee Tuna. That kind of grocery store syntergy took off like an Atlas V rocket in the years following WW2. I wager there's a Campbell's cookbook circa 1960 that has this recipe in it.

Without the soup I'd probably eat it. Have to use whole berry sauce, of course. Great PU. I'll have to steal that trick. Know someone who freezes whole lemons and grates them into dishes. The whole lemon, not just the peel.

Dang that intro! Nice turn!

i was hoping for a Tuna-Barry Sandwich! (whatever that means)

Cranberries are my favorite savory sandwich plus up, even more than pickles.

"That must be...the Sinner's Sandwich..."

Pregnancy craving sandwich.

that looked kind of hard to get down

i do put craisins in my tuna salad so i can almost see me liking this? something about the canned cranberry sauce just feels so much worse though

I'll take one with out the cranberries please.

You could cut a slit in the pepper and microwave it till dehydrated.

Old school moist maker right there.

Was canned chicken a thing in the 70s? I was but a mere child back then but I don't remember it until many years into adulthood. I actually remember being amazed by its existence. That said, Spam and similar canned "meats" existed and it seems like they would still be a better combo with cranberry sauce than tuna.

Made a version with canned chicken and jalapeño jam...its scary good lol

Recipe remake with chicken instead o fish??Would it be worth the trouble?

Was expecting a gross sandwich but that doesn’t seem so bad

It’s a little basic, but maybe try a Gerber sandwich from St Louis

We wanted Trash Can!!!

Oh Barry... Oh no...

Tuna-berry... I am afraid.

Video, because I am a monster. Lol!

Make that tuna caperberry and we'll talk 😉

I’d rather use whole cranberries

Why not canned chicken in 1977? Because it really wasn't a thing. Canned, cooked, flaked chicken wasn't readily available until later. I'm not saying it didn't exist. I'm just saying that I think a lot of people didn't even know it existed. That's why.

Anyone else shocked Barry didn't puke?

... rosemary... nope, a frozen serrano pepper!

I think the Barry Tuna sandwich would have been better...

Can you do a five course sandwich it’s from the 20s and a huge fan of you

Chicken of the sea

Use turkey meat instead I think.

What us George Washingtons favorite sandwich?

Yay! First time being first on comments. Been loving the videos, keep up the great, consistent work!

Just... why tuna? Turkey is right there

that does not look like a winning sandwich recipe to me

Not tuna-Barry?😂