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Thursday, November 17. 2016

Canned fish


I have liked kippers since I was a kid. Kippers and scrambled eggs for breakfast. I also love pickled herring with that cream sauce. I raised my kids on that. Canned salmon is disgusting. Canned salted anchovies? Well, there are good ones and terrible ones. The worst ones are used by pizza joints. Always wonder why they call canned Tuna "Tuna fish"?  Is there some other kind of tuna that is not a fish?


Via Am. Digest, an Ode to Canned Fish


Posted by Bird Dog in Food and Drink at 15:26 | Comments (14) | Trackbacks (0)

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Functioning homo sapiens sapiens do NOT eat pickled herring in cream sauce, or rollmops.
#1 Erasmus on 2016-11-17 16:31 (Reply)
Shush. Birdie Crocker is speaking.
#1.1 Ten on 2016-11-17 18:03 (Reply)
you can tune a guitar but you can't tuna fish
#2 peacelovewoodstock on 2016-11-17 19:35 (Reply)
Of course you can tuna fish. Most tuna fish is sold in cans.
#2.1 BlogDog on 2016-11-18 16:37 (Reply)
Mmmmm...King Oscar's kippered herring, slightly smoked. Accept no substitutes.

I've found any brand of skinless, boneless sardines--packed in olive oil--to be about equal to the others. Always on saltine crackers. Quite possibly my favorite lunch (with a side of cottage cheese or applesauce) but not when my wife is home.

Can't wait to try stockfish, which I just discovered. Sounds like fish jerky.
#3 Gene on 2016-11-17 20:25 (Reply)
Hmm, Tuna the Blogger. Navy type so at least it is nautical.
#4 ron snyder on 2016-11-17 20:51 (Reply)
What's wrong with canned salmon? I like it with balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Maybe next to some spaghetti and butter. They're good for patties, too. Kippers have better texture, though.
#5 Jack Walter on 2016-11-17 21:41 (Reply)
My mother called it tuna fish,so I still do,but she was born in 1899, taught in a one room on the Llano Estacado in West Texas. She taught Latin and Castile as well as math American and English history and literature. We would lay outside at night and taught me the contilations. I am 77 years old today,and maybe I have met three more people as intelligent. MH.
#6 mentor heard on 2016-11-17 21:50 (Reply)
Happy Birthday, and God Bless your mother!
#6.1 Ann K (Link) on 2016-11-18 07:54 (Reply)
I have learned to appreciate canned fish as an adult (except for tuna which was a staple in my childhood home and which I always liked, and salmon for which I have never gained an appreciation).

I generally have some type on hand and in fact crave herring and kippers when I am doing hard-core low carb dieting. High fat, high calorie, high nutritional value for sure.
#7 Jeffersonian on 2016-11-17 22:07 (Reply)
"Always wonder why they call canned Tuna 'Tuna fish'?"

As with so many language questions, the answer is essentially: because we do. It's not just canned tuna either; tuna fish is simply a synonym for, er tuna (there is also tunny and tunny fish).

Incidentally, a number of other Germanic cousin languages follow the same pattern: German Thunfisch, Icelandic túnfiskur, Norwegian tunfisk and Swedish tonfisk.
#8 JJM on 2016-11-17 23:27 (Reply)
Sardines are a better source of calcium than most dairy products. More calcium is absorbed by the body.

Oriental-style fish sauce would go in this category as well - a food that is mentioned in the Talmud and earlier texts.
#9 Ben David on 2016-11-18 05:51 (Reply)
Around here, in California, if you ask for just "tuna" at some markets, you'll get prickly pear fruit! Tuna is the spanish name for it.
#10 Doug on 2016-11-18 12:09 (Reply)
Pretty sure that in Spain a tuna is a university singing club.
#11 Helen on 2016-11-18 22:47 (Reply)

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