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Default Costco Skipjack Tuna

On 7/23/2015 2:03 PM, dsi1 wrote:
> On Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 9:44:58 AM UTC-10, Janet B wrote:
>> On Thu, 23 Jul 2015 12:07:59 -0700 (PDT), dsi1 <>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> On Thursday, July 23, 2015 at 8:42:53 AM UTC-10, Gary wrote:
>>>> Janet B wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Since you occasionally shop Sam's Club, you should check out their
>>>>> canned tuna. I am assuming that they are mimicking Costco and Costco
>>>>> canned tuna is 7 ounces just like it used to be in our regular
>>>>> supermarkets. Costco refused to reduce the size of canned tuna.
>>>>
>>>> I've never seen or heard of 7oz canned tuna. 5 ounces now but used to
>>>> be 6 ounces back since at least the 1970/s. I've got the old BC
>>>> cookbook that recipes always called for 6 ounce cans.
>>>>
>>>> G.
>>>
>>> Costco sells their Kirkland brand tuna in 7oz cans. I don't think you're gonna see tuna sold like that in most supermarkets. The Costco brand seems to be higher quality too - not random chunks scattered in tuna mush.v

>>
>> very true. I never see watery mush in the Costco cans.
>> Janet US

>
> Tuna mush makes my flesh crawl. You squeeze the water out of the can and it goes gloop-gloop over the lid!
>


The vaccu-pouched tuna is less mushy by far.