On Sun 20 Nov 2005 12:53:42p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Dan Abel?

> In article >,
> Wayne Boatwright > wrote:
>
>> On Sat 19 Nov 2005 11:13:01p, Thus Spake Zarathustra, or was it Dan
>> Abel?
>
>
>> > 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.
>
> Thanks, Wayne. I'll be watching more carefully in the future. We
> generally buy our canned tuna fish at Costco, and I think it's decent
> stuff.

You can get some good solid white albacore at Costco. Take a look.

> I don't know if I'm just getting old (old people tend to remember that
> things used to be better), or if canned tuna fish has really gone
> downhill.

Dan, it's not your age. I'm probably older than you are. :-) Canned tuna
has taken a real dive over the last decade at least. There seem to be few
brands and varieties around these days.

--
Wayne Boatwright *¿*
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