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Please, "Tuna Fish" is my father. Just call me "Tuna".
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?
You can tune a piano but you can't tune a fish
But you can tuna fish, so where does that leave us?
I guess it leaves us with Sandwich fillings
"tunafish" sounds weird but "nth American" (not first or second or thirteenth but nth) sounds fine?
‘We have really everything in common with America nowadays except, of course, language’ - Oscar Wilde
"North", I assume
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.
Why is this a pinned post 😅
It mean it's very important. Lemmy NEED to know.
Is there a tuna that is not fish?
Tuna piano?
Tuna can?
I consider “tuna fish” to be outdated and regional to the South and maybe Midwest US. I grew up hearing it but at some point started wondering why tf we would say that rather than just tuna, so I’ve made a point to just say tuna since then.
Huh, I grew up in the South and never realized it wasn’t normal to say tuna fish sandwich. I guess it doesn’t really make sense, but I still kinda like the ring of it
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.
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
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.
Neither. I never order a tuna sandwich. I sometimes make myself a tuna sandwich. 😂
It's redundant. Tuna fish, wrist watch, eye glasses...
Also piss kidneys
Tuna.
We call it "fish chunk" sandwich, coz we literally can't tell if it's tina or not, we just eat it. That way we aren't disappointed.
Tuna fish = The animal
Tuna = The meat
It's like with cows and beef
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.
I'm in camp "Midwestern American who says tuna fish". . .but I'm also right there with the person that said they don't order them and tuna fish sandwiches are something made at home.
For the record, I don't know why the fish part is specified. It just always was. It's not like my family called it a "can of tuna fish" growing up or anything. It's just the sandwiches. Put that tuna between two slices of bread and suddenly the word "fish" gets thrown in there. Maybe it just sounds more fun if you add more syllables? Either that or somebody in the region had to explain that tuna was a kind of fish years and years ago and it just stuck.
Tuna-mayo.
No, I say "tuna salad" and then get disappointed when it's just chunked tuna with no vegetables or dressing.
Tuna sammich.
Tooter fish popkin
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.