Tuna Casserole? Let’s Roll

We heard from Angie Scholler, who lives in Oklahoma City, and she writes that when her parents were first married in the early 1960s, her mother made a tuna casserole one night.

And she writes, my ever diplomatic father didn’t particularly enjoy it.

From then on, whenever Daddy asked Mom what would be for dinner that night and the answer was tuna casserole, he’d say, why don’t we go out for dinner?

And tuna casserole became a family term for them for eating out.

And she says, I remember hearing, shall we get tuna casserole at the local burger joint or shall we get tuna casserole at the local Mexican restaurant?

That’s sweet, right?

Yeah, you take something that could be an ugly memory and you turn it into a family, you know, family lexicon.

That’s good nature.

That’s how you handle family kind of disagreement, right?

You just kind of shift it into the light and the funny.

Yeah, tuna casserole has more than one meaning.

Who knew?

We love a peek into the dialect of your family.

What’s in the lexicon in your house?

What’s the decades-old story that became this word that everybody uses?

Let us know.

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