For the same reason that American cannibals eat human flesh
I bought some tuna fish and chai tea with cash i got from the atm machine
The opposite of “cow steak”
Steak is a cut, not a type of meat.
Steak is perpendicular to the grain, fillet is with.
So you can have a beef fillet or a salmon steak
I just call it canned tuna. Or tuna from a can.
We have to specify so that Jessica Simpson doesn’t get confused with Chicken.
Tuna fish is the chicken bird of the sea water.
The American English language is wierd… Two to four instances of one word to mean different things or to put emphasis on plurals or not… Plus certain connotations depending on who you’re talking to. So trying to go and learn different languages, especially when they only have one instance of something, I have found.
Tuna is just the dish, tuna on a plate.
Tuna Fish is actually Tuna Salad. You would order a tuna fish sandwich (tuna salad), but you would not go to a restaurant and say “I will have the tuna fish” because that is just tuna.
If I want the tuna salad, I’ll order tuna salad.
Also if I’m walking up to a sandwich shop or a restaurant that serves tuna steaks on a grill or something of the sort and say “I’ll have the tuna” the assumption is, they know I what I mean (variance for multiple dishes not included).
I prefer to stick to soylent human when I’m hungry
I love bull beef burgers
“Tuna fish” is a phase used primarily for canned tuna, but not for the live fish or things like tuna steak. It’s because when canned tuna was created in the US in the early 1900’s people who were not right next to the sea (like the majority of the US) did not know what “tuna” was. Firstly, the word is a of Spanish origin and secondly, its a salt water only fish. So in order to sell this to middle America, which was where most of the consumers were at the time but was also made up of people who have never seen the ocean, they added the word “fish” to show like other tinned fish that was commonly purchased: codfish, bluefish, and whitefish, this is also a fish and that is what you can expect when you open this can.
What’s the difference between a tuna and a piano?
if you teach a man to fuck a fish he’ll tuna piano forever?
I’ve seen that on rotten.com
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I think that was, like, Plato or something
One makes hideous sounds when I try to play it as a musical instrument, and the other I can play reasonably competently.
Sorry, you are thinking of a tuba and a piano. Easy mistake.
I didn’t come here for a biology lesson, can I eat my tuba fish already?!
Well, where I live, Tuna is also a cactus. Prickly pear is often called tuna. So yeah, tuna (fish) and tuna (fruit) can need disambiguation.
Where do you live?
Florida. It’s this plant, nopales are the leaves, tuna is the fruit. Also the whole plant and the fruit are called prickly pear, but when I see it for sale, it’s Tuna. Nopales taste sort of like green peppers to me.
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That’s actually really fascinating and neat.
But I’m also legally required to make fun of Florida and use that as the reason you must clarify tuna is a fish.
There’s no one single reason, but the top theories:
- Tuna oil was a thing before “tuna fish”. Yes, people could have said “tuna” but they didn’t. That’s language for you. People say “ATM machine” and “PIN number”, too.
- “Tuna fish” has a slightly sing-song pattern to the stressed/unstressed syllables that probably contributed
- For whatever reason, “tuna fish” tends to refer to canned tuna, whereas “tuna” can include fresh (or frozen) tuna.
It’s… just how language evolves.
I think, however, that “tuna fish” is slowly dying out in favour of just “tuna”. As a 50 year old, anecdotally I have seen the usage decrease in my lifetime.
I agree with 3. That’s exactly how my head cannon works and from what I can tell, others around me.
Don’t want to confuse it with a guitar tuna
