If Subway's Tuna Ain't Tuna, Then What Is It?

OH MY GOD it says it contains a ton of poison!!!

French poison, no less. Maybe it is absinthe.

Wouldn’t that make it pickled fish?

Well, absinthe does make the heart grow flounder.

Come on, someone was going to say it!

well, thats the problem - the poisson is absinthe from the sandwich.

That is one multi-layered pun. Congratulations to all of you. Now never do it again.

Are you saying it was torte-tured?

It was just tu-na much

I wish somebody would make a sandwich out of that Tooney the Talking Tuna puppet on Me-TV’s new cartoon show.

Isn’t all tuna wild caught tuna? I thought that was the problem, we haven’t figured out how to farm it yet so we’re decimating the wild species.

Schools of small tuna are herded into pens floated in the open sea and fattened for slaughter. More like tuna ranching than tuna farming.

Well, it sure tastes and looks like tuna. I think we need a better investigation.

Not quite. The NYT could not find any Tuna DNA. Cooking kills the DNA.

“No amplifiable tuna DNA was present in the sample and so we obtained no amplification products from the DNA. Therefore, we cannot identify the species,” the lab told The Times in an email, noting that cooking the fish can make the tuna DNA difficult or even impossible to identify.

Subway said as much in its statement, posted online.

“Unfortunately, various media outlets have confused the inability of DNA testing to confirm a specific protein with a determination that the protein is not present,” it reads. “The testing that the New York Times report references does not show that there is not tuna in Subway’s tuna. All it says is that the testing could not confirm tuna, which is what one would expect from a DNA test of denatured proteins.”

There’s a thread on this already, If Subway's Tuna Ain't Tuna, Then What Is It? - #152 by Shalmanese which petered out in February. :slight_smile:

@What_Exit, @puzzlegal, should they be combined? Otherwise, well, now we have the link for the previous discussion.

Yup, makes sense to combine.

If Subway has discovered some kind of meatless tuna analog that tastes like tuna, smells like tuna, and is less expensive than tuna, then they’d be better off just marketing that for what it is than selling it on the sly.

Like krab for fake crab, maybe tünã?

Personally, I’d go with tüñå.

So, the take-away from that is that Subway doesn’t know what DNA and protien are.