Tuna was not always popular and when people didn't know what it was it helped people know what they are buying. The US also having a large portion of bilingual people with a Spanish base, this helps it not get confused with cactus fruit (apparently tuna in Spanish)
"吞拿魚"
[transliteration of "tuna"] + ["fish"]
Tuna means prickly pear cactus fruit in Spanish, I've heard it called that pretty often in Texas
its tuna fish because it refers specifically to the canned tuna fish sandwich and additional ingredients.
Of note, the homophonic word, Tuna means the large fish with lots of mercury in it in English, and means the fruit of the prickly pear cactus in Spanish. I've made honey wine (mead or in this case melomel) with tuna, the fruit, and it's amusing to hear people's reaction to "tuna melomel".
I’ve noticed the same thing with Koi. But not with trout or bass or most other fish.
It makes sense for swordfish, because just sword is ambiguous.
Language is weird.
Come to think of it, we do say "tuna fish sandwich", but we also say "tuna salad sandwich".
“Hand me that can of tuna please, I want to make a tuna fish sandwich. “
These words have come out of my mouth.
Yes they’re wrong. But something about the cadence.
But is it "toona" or "chyuna"?
Definitely the most worrying thing about America right now.
Americans do love redundancies. e.g Just barely, only just, just a bit, true facts, free gift, end result, advance warning etc.
I'll take just that cookie (You want the whole cookie)
And
I'll take just a bit of that cookie (You want a piece of the cookie)
I made it just barely to the concert (Implies you were almost late)
And
I made it just to the concert (Implies you had something else to go to but you just went to the concert)
The American English language is wierd... Two to four instances of one word to mean different things or to put emphasis on plurals or not... Plus certain connotations depending on who you're talking to. So trying to go and learn different languages, especially when they only have one instance of something, I have found.
I just call it canned tuna. Or tuna from a can.
For the same reason that American cannibals eat human flesh
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