"Steve Pope" > wrote in message
...
> Blair P. Houghton > wrote:
>
> Tuna confit is reasonably common among yuppie restaurants
> out here. Salted tuna compressed with (I think) olive
> oil, then (perhaps?) stored awhile and served as an
> appetizer generally. Not bad stuff, but not my first
> choice for tuna.
>
> "Potted fish" would have been the name for it 70 years
> ago.

Um, that sounds like regular canned tuna fish to me.