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“Tuna”
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
That was a great album.
How do you install this, then?
I’d rather get a cow-mammal burger
Served with pig-mammal bacon?
“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
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
Still better than calling tuna “tuna fish”
Swordfish? Plenty other languages keep the fish-part in the Tuna name, also
Not the same as there is no one calling a swordfish just sword.
Plenty other languages keep the fish-part in the Tuna name
Do they? Which ones?
German for example
Hungarian here. Probably it would sound weird without the ‘fish’ bit, since we call it ‘tonhal’ (‘hal’ meaning fish). I just can’t imagine someone offering some tuna to me, asking ‘Ton?’.
EDIT: However, in English, I call it tuna, not tuna fish.
Danish/swedish/norwegian, tunfisk/tonfisk
And what about the tuna-cat and tuna-bird?
There’s a few other redundant versions, like how they say “horse-back riding”. Why not bikeseat riding or plane cockpit flying?
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.
All you crazy foreigners just don’t realize. 'Merica has no regulations, sense, or laws. We call it “Tuna Fish” because just “Tuna” is sawdust and cat liter.
I consider “tuna fish” to be outdated and regional to the South and maybe Midwest US.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
It is normal, I guess. I grew up with my mother and grandmother saying that. I decided it was silly and I should stop, though.
Neither. I never order a tuna sandwich. I sometimes make myself a tuna sandwich. 😂
This :-) and
whenever I ordered something with tuna, it was always ‘tonno’
gourmet
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
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.
Tuna.
Is there a tuna that is not fish?
Tooter fish popkin
No, I say “tuna salad” and then get disappointed when it’s just chunked tuna with no vegetables or dressing.
I ask for Tuna and am disappointed when I get Tuna Salad, which is tuna, mayo (I assume) and onion. Like… did I ask for that extra shit? No!
Tuna salad is objectively better though. Tuna (the fish) tastes good. It has lots of flavour but it is inherently dry, 100% solved by tuna salad.
Today I learned that there are people out that who do not share that position. Never met one before. Hello, dryfish eater.
The best tuna salads have celery not onion, and some have sweet pickles in them too.
Two sides of the same coin. Just give us what we ask for or tell us you can’t do it, people!
It’s redundant. Tuna fish, wrist watch, eye glasses…
Pocket watch, sun glasses, drinking glasses
drinking glasses
For one glorious moment there I thought you were some sort of sophisticated individual who has special eye glasses only for drinking.
Well, now I am!
I suppose there are always beer goggles, but not quite the same.
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Also piss kidneys
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-mayo.