Come to think of it, we do say “tuna fish sandwich”, but we also say “tuna salad sandwich”.
Tune a fish
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vic_rattlehead@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
protist@mander.xyz 10 hours ago
Tuna means prickly pear cactus fruit in Spanish, I’ve heard it called that pretty often in Texas
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Isn’t there a famous clip of one of the Kardashians asking if tuna was chicken?
Floodedwomb@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Jessica Simpson
FreshParsnip@lemmy.ca 8 hours ago
Right, that’s who I was thinking of
TigerAce@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 hours ago
In the Netherlands people say koi karper. But koi means karper in Japanese, so basically people say karker karper. It’s stupid.
RickyRigatoni@piefed.zip 6 hours ago
Ever hear of the tuna piano, OOP?
X@piefed.world 9 hours ago
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?
Kolanaki@pawb.social 10 hours ago
I am having tuna fish as opposed to tuna steak.
BananaTrifleViolin@piefed.world 5 hours ago
tuna steak is fish, so why isn’t it tuna fish steak?
Yoddel_Hickory@piefed.ca 6 hours ago
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?
Jyek@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
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.
tomiant@piefed.social 10 hours ago
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”?
troglodytis@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
That’s “chicken bird for midday lunch,” Carl.
pigup@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Philharmonic3@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
It’s to make sure we know we’re having tuna fish instead of tuna of the land, which is what we call chicken.
ThatWeirdGuy1001@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
I’ve never heard an American call it tuna fish. I’ve only ever heard Bri*ish people call it that.
Nihilistic_Mystics@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
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.
ArmoredThirteen@lemmy.zip 8 hours ago
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
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
People usually use tunafish to refer to tuna salad, which is mainly canned tuna, mayonnaise, and a few seasonings, typically served on a sandwich.
Zorsith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 8 hours ago
Next up: seafood. Its just meat from the water.
Doomsider@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
I want me a big cow steak with a side of shrimp shrimp. Could you crumble some pig bacon on it?
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 9 hours ago
Okay, so can I ask about the “hot water heater” then? Do some people have a tepid water heater in their homes? 🤨
blackbelt352@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
It’s a heater to make hot water. As opposed to a space heater, which is a heater used to heat a space and a food heater that is a heater used to heat food to serving temps and a floor heater which is a heater to warm up a floor.
SwingingTheLamp@piefed.zip 7 hours ago
But a water heater is going to produce hot water, right? That’s what it does. It’s redundant to call it a hot water heater, unless you have multiple water heaters for different temperatures, then you’d need to specify, like the lukewarm water heater. I’ll note that we don’t call them hot food heaters, warm space heaters, or warm floor heaters, because we know that’s going to be the result.
Janx@piefed.social 9 hours ago
I’d rather have a steak cow.
Tabula_stercore@lemmy.world 10 hours ago
You can tune a piano, but you can’t tuna fish
- goku
cRazi_man@europe.pub 10 hours ago
Mutton goat is the best meat. I’ve always said that mutton is GOAT.
tomiant@piefed.social 10 hours ago
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.
krow@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
theyre just trying to make it sound right :^)