On Sun 20 Nov 2005 07:50:49a, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it TammyM?

> On 20 Nov 2005 07:20:48 +0100, Wayne Boatwright
> > wrote:
>
>>On Sat 19 Nov 2005 11:13:01p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Dan
>>Abel?
>>
>>> In article >,
>>> Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Sat 19 Nov 2005 10:25:33p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it
>>>> serene?
>>>>
>>>> > Wayne Boatwright wrote:
>>>> >
>>>> >> Lately I've only been buying the gold can of BumbleBee Prime
>>>> >> Fillet Solid White Albacore. After lengthy searches, it's the
>>>> >> only one I've found that doesn't look like debris scraped off the
>>>> >> bottom of a ship! It's a nice solid pieces of tuna that looks like
>>>> >> what most tuna used to look like.
>>>> >
>>>> > I'm a philistine. I don't like the albacore stuff. It's not what
>>>> > I'm used to. Too dry. I like the dark, mushy stuff called
>>>> > "light". Go figure.
>>>>
>>>> We could not share a can of tuna! :-) All my life my mom wouldn't
>>>> allow any kind of tuna in the house except solid white. I'm not sure
>>>> back then that it was necessarily albacore, but it was a solid chunk
>>>> of white tuna. Nothing else seems like tuna to me. :-)
>>>
>>> If I'm eating canned tuna fish, I'm gonna smush it up anyway. If it
>>> is already smushed up in the can, what's the difference?
>>
>>To me it's a big difference. The cheap smushed up stuff is just that,
>>cheap smushed up "stuff". It has a lousy texture, seems invariably to
>>not be all white tuna, and is excessively juicy, leaving less actual
>>tuna after draining. The solid white has a nice firm texture that can
>>be flaked to any desirable size, has a better flavor, and there's a lot
>>more tuna after draining.
>
> My feelings too, Wayne. I don't mind the other stuff in tuna
> casserole (YES! I admit it, I LIKE TUNA CASSEROLE!!!!!), but for a
> sandwich, my strong preference is albacore. Now mind you, we didn't
> have the money for such when I was growing up, so this is a taste
> developed of comparative affluence (heavily accent the comparative!)
>
> So. I'll share my tuna sandwich with you any day o' the week, my
> friend.

I'm ready for that sammich, Tammy! :-)

I make Tuna Casserole exactly twice a year, and I really enjoy it when I
make it. It's like Mom's comfort food. :-)


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Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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