Submitted 1 month ago by GreenDust@lemmings.world to [deleted]
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There’s a difference between “tuna” and “tuna fish”.
“Tuna” is a fish
“Tuna fish” is an approximation. A culinary goal, if you will. It starts as simply a flavor and can evolve all the way into a composite fast food sandwich. And while either, both, and or everything in between may taste exactly like tuna, it isn’t. It’s “tuna fish“. Because it didn’t start there, it merely ended there.
Similar to the difference between butter and margarine
This is just not true… Tuna fish is the stuff in a can. Tuna filet is a filet of tuna. Tuna is the live or freshly caught fish from the ocean. Anything not actually made of tuna is imitation tuna or tuna flavored or artificial tuna.
“Hand me that can of tuna please, I want to make a tuna fish sandwich. “
These words have come out of my mouth.
Yes they’re wrong. But something about the cadence.
It’s about conversational cadence. If it was descriptive it would be a hyphenate.
Come to think of it, we do say “tuna fish sandwich”, but we also say “tuna salad sandwich”.
An educational article from the UK.
For the same reason that American cannibals eat human flesh
I just call it canned tuna. Or tuna from a can.
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.
We know tuna is a fish is a wild statement when talking about americans
I prefer to stick to soylent human when I’m hungry
I love bull beef burgers
Also soda-pop.
theyre just trying to make it sound right :^)
Given the tvp shenanigans that food manufacturers have tried to pass off and you have to ask?
They also love saying Koala Bear (they aren’t a bear) and Dingo Dog. No, they’re just koalas and dingoes. Americans just seem to like adding words where they aren’t necessary. My pet hate is “off of”, as in “Take your shoes off of the table!” No, just take them off the table, no need for redundancy.
I’ve never heard an American call it tuna fish. I’ve only ever heard Bri*ish people call it that.
Isn’t there a famous clip of one of the Kardashians asking if tuna was chicken?
Jessica Simpson
Right, that’s who I was thinking of
They don’t have to say “tuna fish”. Most don’t, as far as I know. Who are you hanging out with that you think it’s somehow mandatory?
I am having tuna fish as opposed to tuna steak.
tuna steak is fish, so why isn’t it tuna fish steak?
Why do they call their babies “Baby Joe” or “Baby Velma”? We know they are babies. Do they also call them “Young Adult Joe”, and “Middle Aged Joe”?
Mutton goat is the best meat. I’ve always said that mutton is GOAT.
TIL some cultures refer to goat as mutton instead of sheep.
I think you are wrong and mammoth is GOAT, because if you think about it, we still have mutton, but we literally ate all the mammoth.
I would love to tune my bass
In the Netherlands people say koi karper. But koi means karper in Japanese, so basically people say karker karper. It’s stupid.
Ever hear of the tuna piano, OOP?
Same thing as “left-hand side”. You’re not children anymore, you can just say left side.
Would “left-foot side” make sense? Would it be different from the hand?
Left-hand side is like saying your left, not mine. You could also say on your left but then again, English has lots of ways to say lots of things.
That’s “chicken bird for midday lunch,” Carl.
It’s to make sure we know we’re having tuna fish instead of tuna of the land, which is what we call chicken.
I’ve never heard a single person say tunafish outside of TV. I have no idea where the idea that Americans use this frequently came from, but it’s not true.
I’m from the US and say tuna fish for canned tuna, just saying tuna can be sushi or like frozen fish. The US is huge it’s probably regional
People usually use tunafish to refer to tuna salad, which is mainly canned tuna, mayonnaise, and a few seasonings, typically served on a sandwich.
BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 1 month ago
Americans do love redundancies. e.g Just barely, only just, just a bit, true facts, free gift, end result, advance warning etc.
hakase@lemmy.zip 1 month ago
Americanslanguages do love redundancies.Sludgeyy@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I’ll take just that cookie (You want the whole cookie)
And
I’ll take just a bit of that cookie (You want a piece of the cookie)
I made it just barely to the concert (Implies you were almost late)
And
I made it just to the concert (Implies you had something else to go to but you just went to the concert)
NoPanko@feddit.uk 1 month ago
“3am in the morning”
YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 1 month ago
*afternoon