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.  

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[baritonejeff.livejournal.com]

I have pretty good luck if I stick to albacore, preferably solid, packed in spring water. Mixed with finely diced celery, chives and sweet pickle. Throw in enough good mayonnaise to moisten, and you have a good batch of tuna. An unhealthy, but yummy, southern idea is to butter the bread before you spread the tuna on.

Question of my day: Why do so many people call tuna, "tuna fish"? Do they eat "trout fish" or "salmon fish" or "shark fish"?

[jackiejj.livejournal.com]

They are the people who talk about the Sahara desert.

[baritonejeff.livejournal.com]

Now, to be fair, they might just not want you to think they're referring to the (defunct?) hotel in Vegas! Yeah, right!

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

As opposed to the sahara forest.

But there was a time- thousands rather than millions of years ago- when the sahara was sub-tropical and had rivers and lakes and supported giraffe and hippopotami and things like that.

It's sacry to contemplate climate change on that sort of scale

[four-thorns.livejournal.com]

to be fair, in arizona we talk about the sonoran desert. "sonoran" is an adjective, so it's not quite the same. but nobody calls it "the sonora".

language is odd. i'd feel odd referring to a tuna fish sandwich as a "tuna sandwich"... to me, the addition of "fish" somehow denotes canned tuna mixed with mayonnaise. a "tuna sandwich" makes me think of a tuna steak in a sandwich.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Tuna fish? I really don't know.

But I seem to remember a time when tuna was known through the English speaking world as "tunny".