Why do Americans call Tuna, Tuna Fish?

It is the most stupid thing I have ever heard. If you call it Tuna Fish, then why don't you also say Salmon Fish, Trout Fish, Shark Fish, etc...

I can't imagine someone asking for a Salmon Fish sandwhich.

Stooopid!

 

I don't call it tuna fish. We call it Ahi here.

 

Why do the British call a truck a lorry, an elevator a lift, and an apartment a flat? Why do the Canadians call a couch a chesterfield? It's just regional differences. I'm sure if I knew anything about the Australian dialect, I'd have a hard time understanding why you call certain things what you do.

 

Huh?

 

My 'Huh' was in reference to the Ahi comment.

I understand what you are saying, however, it still doesn't make sense. Why put Fish at the end of Tuna, and not at the end of all the other types of Fish. That is what makes it weird.

 

Tuna? I call it tuna. ?

Americans are diverse. To each his own.

Course I hate tuna.

 

Because that's how we like it.

 

Because they like it that way.

Why do the Canadians call a couch a chesterfield?

I'm Canadian...and a call a couch a couch...

 

This one time a guy ordered a Tuna sandwich in Hartford, CT. The guy at the deli, being a couple short of a picnic put a piano tuner (a small screwdriver like tool) in amongst the lettuce and tomato. When the customer bit into the roll, he broke his teeth and the deli was sued.

The guy with the broken teeth always made sure to ensure that his intentions and wishes were clearly given so as not to go through that sort of thing again, and proceeded to call Tuna "Tuna Fish" so as not to be confused with a piano tuner in future. The habit stuck, spread, and has since become part of the american vernacular.






Or not.

 

I like, jp-30's response!

But really, sometimes I just call it tuna. We'd still know what you were saying if you just said tuna. I never really thought about it before. What I'd like to know is what the heck a treacle tart is. I've never seen treacle before.

 

You'd still know? I doubt that.

I ordered a ham, cheese and tomato sandwich (SAMMICH!) from place in Seattle once when I was there and they had no idea what a tomato was when I pronounced it tom-ah-toe.

Dumb.

 

sandwich (SAMMICH!)

I thought it was "sammidge".

 

Actually we call it a sangwidge here, but I was being international.

 

Because of the song Tuna Fish, Tuna fish swimming through the water... Tuna Fish, Tuna fish *bite* *bite* *bite* I think by Charlotte Diamond... Wow. Now I feel old when I'm refering to children's songs from along time ago

 

It's the same reason that some people call a pen an "ink pen" or they want to "aks" you "sumptin" or that they call those big rockets in Kansas "NEWC-YA-LER Weapons" (Sound familiar "W"?). It's a lack of education.

 

A lot of people call them "noocyuhler" weapons. More than just W.

 

> It's a lack of education.

Oh, so they teach you how to say "tuna" in US schools? That's great. Now if they can move onto the fact that Hitler was not Japanese I think we'll all be able to rest a little easier at night.

 

But "DUH-BB-YAH" is the most famous (right now) one people publically ossociate with bad education.

 

I ordered a ham, cheese and tomato sandwich (SAMMICH!) from place in Seattle once when I was there and they had no idea what a tomato was when I pronounced it tom-ah-toe.

Seattle is the home of Starbucks and shall be WORSHIPED! Course, that is kinda bad. Where did you go?

Anyways, it's just the way we call it. I eat a tuna fish sandwich. But if it's just the fish, it's tuna.

It has nothing to do with education. It's more of a regional thing, like someone said before.

Why does it matter anyways? Hmmm....

JediFarfy

 

I call tuna "nasty."

 

If Tuna is chicken of the sea...I think that makes shrimp the roach of the sea.

 

I'm more concerned about the superfluous "u" than referring to tuna as tuna fish. What's that about?

Amazing.

 

No. no, that honour goes to the Minke Whale.

Japanese fisheries official Masayuki Komatsu caused controversy last week by describing the minke as the "cockroach of the sea", claiming the species had such large populations hunting restrictions should be lifted.

 

It is the most stupid thing I have ever heard.
-The Gatherer


Actually that should be the "stupidest thing." "Most stupid thing" is, well, stupid.

 

No. no, that honour goes to the Minke Whale.


But shrimp are really small and have exoskeletons. Beat THAT!