“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.
I bought some tuna fish and chai tea with cash i got from the atm machine
cash money
obtained with my pin number
I love this comment, I’m going to save it on a PDF file.
This one is actually correct. PDF stands for Portable Document Format.
Ooops. I mixed it with some other then
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.
Tuna fish is the chicken bird of the sea water.
My aneurysm is acting up again
Horse back riding
If you don’t specify, Americans will ride the wrong part of the horse
Thanks to Catherine the Great, we all have to specify which part of the horse we’re going to ride.
I vaguely rember Catherine the Great*, but I dont remember anything about a horse.
I am ready to learn though
*
Was she after Henry the 8th? The first Queen to rule without a king by her side?
I thought it was Mr. Hands, the aerospace engineer, that made us require that distinction.
What was that acronym he came up with, something about I don’t need a bucket cuz the horse is just the right height 🤯
Honestly, I try to avoid knowing any more about him than I can. I know a bunch of meta details, but didn’t dig that far into it.
For this one could it be horse back riding because people also used to have horse carts ? Unless in other countries it’s different lol
Chai may mean tea, but since it is different from the typical English tea ‘chai’ was modified to be an adjective for tea denoting the difference. Because that’s how language works.
Yeah, stop it with the redundant pleonasms!
Is the 3rd movie out?
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 (as food), 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.
Some of you have never eaten tuna cow and it shows
If we didn’t say that, we wouldn’t have the joke about the difference between a piano and a fish.
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
But not “beefsteak,” because that’s a tomato
A Czech reporter’s name is Jan Tuna. Please keep saying “tuna fish” for his* sake.
* he/him, Jan is a common male name here derived from John, the female counterpart is Jana
“hey Jan, I’m watching some peertube chef and he’s talking about ‘bluefin tuna’! Did you used to be punk in college?”
We have to specify so that Jessica Simpson doesn’t get confused with Chicken.
When I hear tuna fish I think stuff in the can. When I hear Tuna I think the filet. I know that’s just me.
No, I feel that’s pretty universal.
Universal in America
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?!
I think it’s mostly for the dad joke:
You can tune a piano, but you can’t tune a fish.
I feel there’s some joke to be made involving that ribbed fish shaped instrument we used to play with in elementary school
Dad joke or name of a great album. That the the dad joke came first is pretty much beyond dispute, lol.
