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It's slang. We say "tuna fish" specifically as a substititute for "a tuna salad sandwich", but not for the fish itself, or the fish prepared any other way.
Yes, radical I know - But we decided when you add two ingredients together you can just call the new thing by the name of the two ingredients.
Therefore we call it Eggs Mayonnaise, not Eggs Dynamite or Eggs crushing futility of our existence.
Egg Salad involves Multiple ingredients, Lettuce, Tomato etc. Apart from in Glasgow where they become dizzy and disorientated when you add more than one extra colour or healthy item to a dish.