Tuna

[poliphilo]

Why- when tinned tuna is so very, very fishy- does fresh tuna taste of nothing?

I was visiting Honfleur once and the tuna fleet was in- and these huge, fat , blue-black fishes- frozen solid-  were lying all over the dock  like unexploded bombs.  

Comments

[aellia.livejournal.com]

And why,when you buy tuna sandwich fillings,or ask for a sandwich,does it always have to have sweetcorn with it???

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I'm very fond of sweetcorn, but goodness knows why it's considered the ideal accompaniment to tuna.

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

Never ever heard of corn plus tuna!

Here we use apples, pecans, grapes, celery--

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I think something is needed to alleviate the fishiness.

I only ever eat tuna- fresh or canned- when i'm forced into a corner.

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

you brits put corn on everything! even pizza! i've never seen corn offered as a pizza topping in the us. or with tuna, for that matter.

another thing i noticed was the need to put mayonnaise on every sandwich. the only sandwiches in the grocery store i could find without mayo also had no other condiments. because if you dont like mayo in your sandwich, clearly you dont like tomato or lettuce or mustard or anything else either. oh, and sometimes they trick you by saying "mustard" when they really mean "mustard-flavored mayonnaise". that's rather low, i think.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

So what would you use instead of mayo?

Butter?

Actually I'm a little taken aback. I was thinking the mayo habit was something we caught off you guys. When I was a kid there was no such thing as mayo. Instead, we used a cheap vinegary concoction (still available) called salad cream.

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

i like mustard on my sandwiches. the only sandwich that i'll eat with mayo is a tuna fish sandwich, or the occasional club sandwich. otherwise, it's just mustard of various sorts.

perhaps we introduced mayonnaise to england, and you (that's the collective "you") were just so taken with it that you went a bit overboard?

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I favour mayo with any savoury sandwich.

Though I'm quite taken with the Spanish idea of using oil and tomato.

English mustard is pretty disgusting (or was when I was growing up in the 50s and 60s) and I never really developed a taste for it.

[arielstarshadow.livejournal.com]

It's not there in the states. Onion, celery, pickle - those are the typical things we mix into our tuna salad.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

You go for things with a bit more bite; I think that's sensible.