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“tunafish” sounds weird but “nth American” (not first or second or thirteenth but nth) sounds fine?
Curious, are you against eating animals at all, or is there something specific to fish I’m unaware of?
Tried to phrase that in the most polite way, but I can’t get the phrasing to not sound like I’m being a snarky dick. I’m genuinely asking. I’m not vegan, but I do try to limit myself as much as I can given the diets of the other people I cook for. Also not a fan of fish in general, but I’ll cook and eat it when someone in the house goes fishing at the local lake or river. We never buy fish.
“Tuna Salad.”
As far as I know Tuna-fish is only a nth American thing and sounds very weird to my ears.
So this vote will likely be Nth America vs the rest.
Honestly, why only tuna fish?
Salmon-fish?
Chicken-bird?
Is it really that hard to write the word “north”? Is that even what nth is supposed to mean? I keep reading it as the mathematical “1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th, 5th…, nth” and it makes my head hurt
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You can tune a piano but you can’t tune a fish
That was a great album.
But you can tuna fish, so where does that leave us?
I guess it leaves us with Sandwich fillings
I’d rather get a cow-mammal burger
We do have a tuna cactus here that people eat. Nopales are from the Tuna. Prickly pear fruit also. That cactus is called Tuna here.
I mean the fish when I say Tuna though, and would say Prickly Pear cactus.
But do hear Tuna often used to mean the plant.
Human-sapien?
Human-homo?
Human-mammal would be the closest taxonomically.
Jay bird
Panda bear
Scarab beetles
Why is this a pinned post 😅
It mean it’s very important. Lemmy NEED to know.
I was kinda drunk when I saw a comment chain in another thread and decided to have a bit of fun ;)
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I was drunk and saw a comment chain in another thread so I decided to have a bit of fun ;)
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You can’t tuna fish otherwise you risk it becoming a bass.
Tuna. I’m in the midwest. I’ve lived on the west coast. I just assumed “tuna fish” was an east coast thing.
I order a tuna salad sandwich or a tuna sandwich, but I grew up hearing tuna fish… specifically in reference to the stuff that came in a can.
Both were equally common years ago but over time, “tuna” sans fish has won out… likely because fresh, non canned tuna is very common.
I read an article a while ago that theorized the reason for Americans calling it “tuna fish” was that it rose to prominence as a canned staple good in the 1940s, and many Americans who didn’t live on the coasts had never heard of tuna before. Its light meat, when canned and cooked, was very mild and chicken-y compared with the heavily salted, oily canned fish folks were familiar with, hence both “chicken of the sea” and the precaution of labeling the can with not only tuna, but “fish”.
I think an alternate explanation is probably more likely… the 1919 Oxford English Dictionary describes “Tuna” as an alternative spelling of “tunny”, the old name for the fish (still used in a culinary sense in Britain) … not coincidentally:
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Californians would also have been familiar with the other tuna… tuna fruit, the prickly pear.
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Possessed of both a fruit and a fish of the same name, distinguishing one from the other when canning fish seems reasonable
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The largest canneries of tuna (e.g., the one that ultimately became Chicken of the Sea) were all based in California.
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For some reason if I think of a tuna fish sandwich I imagine canned tuna, but if I think tuna sandwich I imagine whole seared tuna.
Ditto
Are there Tunas that aren’t fish? We just say Tuna here in California unless we ask for yellow fin tuna or blue fin tuna
I call it whenever they call it on the menu. This is generally how everyone should order food. It’s what the servers have memorized and it’s how they understand the requests better.
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We don’t eat tuna
Tuna fish = The animal
Tuna = The meat
It’s like with cows and beef
I drink the milk of the beef fish.
Sounds fine.
Nah. cow and beef came about due to the Norman conquest of England.
The lords spoke French and so were served bœuf (which became beef overtime), while the peasants spoke English and tended cows in the field.
Tuna-mayo.