The world’s tuna fishery is collapsing, with prime specimens selling for seven-digit prices. Yet tuna is everywhere, from supermarket shelves to delis to sushi bars, and the retail cost remains low. How is this possible?
According to this item, a majority of the “tuna” being sold in the U.S. isn’t tuna at all. A lot of it is a fish called “escolar”, the eating of which, we learn, has some seriously unpleasant side effects.
Proceed at your own risk.
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Kind of wish you’d delete this post Malcolm. I’ve recommended Waka to many of my friends. (Don’t know it’s bookmarked – but one never knows).
About two weeks ago I was invited to “a potluck” and the dish I took was exceedingly “My that’s delicious JK, what do you call it?”
“Tuna Surprise.”
I hadn’t a clue why so many failed to show up for the follow-on poker tournament – I was sorta thinking it must’ve been because of the raw spinach salad.
What I want to know is why tuna at a sushi bar is called tuna an tuna in a can is called tuna fish. Do we refer to canned salmon as salmon fish? Is there any kind of tuna which is not fish?
This is niggling as “free gift”, “foreign imports”, and “advanced planning”.
Shaved Tuna.
Racist.
Hot Tuna. And Bill Parcells.
Sorry. I’m getting Alzhammered – I was thinking of Jefferson Airplane. Turns out it was this:
http://www.last.fm/music/John+Lennon/Shaved+Fish
(Slaps forehead)
Of course! Hot Tuna! Before I knew the gender of my child, I wanted Jorma for the boy’s name.
Hot Tuna got their name after RCA Records refused to let them use the name Hot Shit, just as Stone Temple Pilots chose their name when they were denied same-initials Shirley Temple’s Pussy.
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