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

[silversmoke.livejournal.com]

Most canned tuna has vegetable broth mixed in as a "flavour enhancer," and that's the taste most people associate with canned tuna. If you prefer the milder, less fishy flavour, you should always get tins of tuna packaged in olive oil. The downside is that olive oil is ovbiously more fattening.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

I don't think the veggie broth option is available in Britain. Or if it is, it's a minority taste. Our tuna comes packed in either oil or brine.