"JRStern" > wrote in message
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> On Wed, 06 May 2015 09:08:21 -0400, Gary > wrote:
>
>>Starkist Tuna - 5oz cans, packed in water (or oil)
>>
>>My store this week....3 cans for a dollar, limit 12.
>>I finally got there on the first day of a good sale so they had
>>plenty. Next time I go on Saturday morning, I'll bet the shelves are
>>empty.
>>
>>I do eat tuna sandwiches maybe once or twice a week (as late night
>>snacks). I'll buy many more this week just for future use...this is a
>>rare price for canned tuna these days. :-D
>
> Y'know, about a year ago I found a similar "bargain". I've been
> eating canned tuna my whole life, like most Americans, but there's
> been a lot of question recently about how often those tuna cans even
> contain tuna. I ate one, and the second, and the third is still
> unopenned in my pantry. It was pretty poor quality tuna, if it was
> tuna at all. I'd offer it to a cat if I had one handy, for a second
> opinion. At this point if I'm going to eat canned tuna it's going to
> be the best stuff available, and frankly it's fallen off my list.
>
> There are a couple of restaurants that claim they're using exotic
> "Spanish canned tuna" or the like, ... I'm even avoiding those staples
> of American cuisine the tuna salad sandwich and tuna casserole. Not
> just the mercury, but the doubt of what I'm getting, some of the
> substitute fishes have reputations for intestinal upset.
>
> Salmon just seems a better alternative, there's much less doubt about
> what you're getting, and the canned pink salmon at TJ's, with similar
> products available in most markets, at about $3.30/pound, is fine for
> me when I want canned fish.
>
> J.

I presume that you've seen this. It was all over Facebook.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/scie...ys-expert.html

Daughter will not eat tuna now because of this. I don't even have any more
canned. I do have some in a pouch. But after seeing this it has made me
not want to eat it. Well that and the guy who was cooked to death at the
tuna plant.