On Friday, December 7, 2018 at 6:58:16 AM UTC-10, Sheldon wrote:
> On Fri, 7 Dec 2018 10:13:32 -0000, Janet > wrote:
>
> >In article >,
> says...
> >> Subject: Wall Street Journal: "The Trouble With Tuna"
> >> From: Pamela >
> >> Newsgroups: rec.food.cooking
> >>
> >> On 17:33 6 Dec 2018, dsi1 <dsi1> wrote in
> >> :
> >>
> >> > [quoted text muted]
> >> >
> >> > Can tuna fish was a product of the technology of the turn of the
> >> > century and economics of the America of the past. It's time has come
> >> > and gone. My guess is that the younger generation thinks of it as a
> >> > nasty, stinky, product and they'd probably be right.
> >>
> >> Reading the posts here about so many people disliking tuna makes me
> >> wonder if canned tuna in America is very different to the UK.
> >
> >One of many national differences you'll notice here. Nobody has
> >mentioned what the nasty stinky stuff is packed in.
> >
> >
> >> Tuna here is okay but tends to be dry as the oils are renoved during
> >> boiling when processing. Very cheap tins of "bargain" tuna are often
> >> stinky and the meat is fragmented and sound slik what many people here
> >> are describing
> >
> >> However even ordinary tuna can be quite good with other
> >> fatty accompaniments such as cheese and I find its distinct flavour
> >> works well in a tomato pasta sauce as well giving body to it.
> >>
> >> Yellow fin tuna is a superior product and nicer still.
> >>
> >
> > What the US calls "chunk " tuna looks like what's classified as
> >"flakes" in UK, small, fragments from numerous fish. What they call
> >"solid" tuna is slightly larger fragments.
> >
> > US canned tuna in pictures. Our cats would recognise it.
> >
> >https://homedecoration.nu/galleries/...unk-light.html
>
> That picture looks doctored/photo shopped... I've never seen soupy
> tuna. We buy like 50 cans of Bumble Bee a year, all solid white
> albacore, an excellent product... we buy Starkist too, also excellent.
> I think you suffer from tuna aroma phobia... when your momma went into
> labor with you she hadn't washed her vulva for over a month.
>
> >http://www.bumblebee.com/the-differe...pes-of-canned-
> >tuna/
> >
> > We can buy canned tuna in UK graded as flakes chunks or steaks but the
> >size regulations and quality controls are different.
> >
> > You're probably more used to the canned tuna sold in UK as "steaks"
> >a solid piece of meat from one fish.
> >
> > Janet UK
> >
> >

That's pretty much the kind of watery, mushy, stuff I see these days. For a guy that opened a lot of tuna cans back in the old days, it's quite a shock.