I bought some tuna fish and chai tea with cash i got from the atm machine
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
cash money
obtained with my pin number
its tuna fish because it refers specifically to the canned tuna fish sandwich and additional ingredients.
Horse back riding
If you don’t specify, Americans will ride the wrong part of the horse
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
Thanks to Catherine the Great, we all have to specify which part of the horse we’re going to ride.
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.
Definitely the most worrying thing about America right now.
We know tuna is a fish is a wild statement when talking about americans
Tuna fish is the chicken bird of the sea water.
My aneurysm is acting up again
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
“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.
For the same reason that American cannibals eat human flesh
We have to specify so that Jessica Simpson doesn’t get confused with Chicken.
I would love to tune my bass
Colloquially tuna fish refers to the shredded salt brined tins of fish like this:
Which I do think is worth distinguishing from the actual whole pieces of tuna
So tinned tuna
No!
If I gotta use a freaking tool to open you, you, can’t call yourself tinned!
Why do they need to specify it’s in water? It’s a fish, of course it needs to be in water.
Some are in oil, but as BP learned, this kills the crab.
Brined tuna is an abomination before God. It must be sunflower oil.
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.
I just call it canned tuna. Or tuna from a can.
