Tuna is tuna.
This is no kingdom, phylum, class, order, family, genus or species confusion.
[ok, maybe species, but I am too lazy to look it up–and they are still fish.]
What’s with the people that say tunafish?
And yes, I am bored.
Feel free to start a movement (after having your prunefruit).
WAG at some point when it was first introduced tuna was not a well known word among consumers, so to avoid confusion they labeled it tuna fish and it stuck.
I usually just say ‘tuna.’
The title of the thread reminds me of the time me kids and I were eating shrimp for supper and they asked what it was. I said they should finish the shrimp first and then I would tell them. Hilarity ensued!
I’m going to assume that a post of mine inspired this thread.
Tuna is a fish, often served as a steak or in sushi. Tunafish is cooked, flaked tuna that comes in a can, often mixed with mayonaise and made into a sandwich.
They are completely different foods, like grapes and grape soda.
I’ll use “tuna” when I’m ordering it or mentioning it in steak form. “I’ll have the seared tuna, please.”
When I’m having the canned crap on a sandwich, I call it “tuna fish.” “I’ll have a tuna fish sandwich, please.”
There’s also this variety of cactus, which is also apparently called tuna. So maybe it’s disambiguated like dolphinfish.
The OP must be Canadian, or perhaps British, where tuna is just called tuna.
(And yes tdn, I thought of your post in “things I won’t eat” too when I saw this.)
What do you ask for when you want a shark sandwich?
Whan I was posting that I was remembering the last time we had this thread and I wondered if I would spawn another one.
Don’t be ridiculous. Everyone knows that the only proper way to eat shark is in shark fin soup.
Cool, I’d like a tunacactus margarita right about now. Tunafish margarita, not so much.
I’m still holding out for pureed shark in a squeeze tube. You could put it on a hot dog, put dollops of it on a pizza, even brush your teeth with it.
It’s because you can tuna piano but you can’t tuna fish.
While we’re at it, why sunfish? Lets just call them suns from now on.
And what about Turtledoves?
I thought they had been renamed sea kittens.
All wrong. Even in the can it’s still tuna. Mixed with mayo is “tuna salad”.
He’s part right. Growing up, I heard people refer to tuna salad as “tuna fish.” Never heard the term applied to plain tuna in the can, though.
I learned this the hard way one day when I was about eight and at a friend’s house, where I was offered a “tuna fish” sandwich. Warily, I asked if they meant tuna salad (which I hated because I loathed and continue to loathe mayonnaise) or tuna itself, which I had no problem with.
No, not tuna salad, I was assured. Tuna fish! Yeah, it was tuna fucking salad.