I absolutely love chickpea salad (just ate it for dinner, in fact), but it bears essentially no resemblance to either chicken or tuna salad. Both the taste and texture are radically different.

Almonds, chickpeas? I love them both but they're no substitute if your diet requires a decent amount of protein.

Pretty sure almonds are nearly the same amount of protein per ounce as tuna..

Ah, definitely more than I thought. Owing to personal dietary/health requirements, I'm always on the lookout for good sources of low-carb protein, and it's even better if the environmental impact is low.

The macro-nutrient ratios of these three foods (tuna, almonds, and garbanzo beans) are radically different, however. Without breaking down the macro categories into finer detail, here's a rough comparison:

-The tuna is high in protein and contains almost no carbs, and a moderate amount of fat.

-Almonds are nearly as high in protein but have many times the amount of fat (note: that's not necessarily a bad thing)

-Chickpeas have a moderate amount of protein, but are much higher in carbohydrates than the other two.

More than everything except bluefin, according to the internet.

And I am pretty sure that bluefin is never used for tuna salad anyway. It is too expensive.

I ate bluefin salad sandwiches every day for over a year. You are allowed to catch one per year for recreational purposes. You can't sell the meat though. What the hell else are you going to do with 300lbs of frozen tuna in a chest freezer? Bluefin doesn't even taste very good.

If you want a shit ton of bluefin tuna, go to north carolina in the winter. For about $1000, you can hire a boat and catch one. You'll have 200-400lbs of tuna, and and entire belly of o-toro. A year later, you will never want to eat tuna again.