Is canned tuna of poorer quality than it used to be, or is it just me? Nt

[raccoon]

[Mike 03]

1. Check out Wild Planet.

It's sustainably caught and the best I know of.

A little more expensive. You can find it by Googling. (This is not an advertisement, just a recommendation).

[musette_sf]

16. We buy Wild Planet online

because husband prefers the salt-free varieties and our local market does not always have them in stock. Kitty also likes Wild Planet. 😻

[KT2000]

2. Costco has better tuna

Wild Planet and another one. The price is good too.

[kcr]

3. I buy Costco

But I've found even theirs isn't as good lately. I didn't buy any last time.

[NurseJackie]

8. We buy Costco tuna also... it's actually Bumblebee tuna.

If I'm recalling correctly, the way I found out was because there was a website mentioned on the Costco cans regarding the fact that the tuna was dolphin safe... and it was actually a Bumble Bee Tuna website.

[wryter2000]

4. IMHO

It was better when it was packed in oil.

[ratchiweenie]

5. You can still get it packed in oil. In fact it's cheaper than the water pack.

[wryter2000]

41. I'll look for that

Is it at the supermarket, or do I have to order it somewhere?

[ratchiweenie]

46. Sorry, haven't checked my posts in a while. You can get it at Albertsons/Safeway. Not sure

where you live but most of the grocers out west carry it in oil. It's cheap too.

[XanaDUer2]

20. I agree

had to search for a can for tuna casserole

[ratchiweenie]

35. I like albacore in water but my hubby likes it in oil. I do have to look for it though.

Most canneries have changed. He does make a wicked tuna casserole!

[Shanti Shanti Shanti]

6. I only buy solid white albacore in water, its good, never eat that bleh one in oil, lol

[nightthinker]

9. Same here.

It has to be albacore tuna. Solid in water.

[XanaDUer2]

21. I use that for tuna salad

I love celery in TS

[woodsprite]

23. Celery, onion, pickle relish, and a pinch of jerk seasoning! nt

[Blue_true]

34. Except for the jerk seasoning, you like your tuna like my oldest brother.

He uses everything that you use, except the jerk seasoning, he uses mustard instead.

One time I was making tuna salad and made the mistake of asking him whether he wanted any, after opening the can, but before making the salad. He started telling me what to put in it, the onions were ok, but after that things went haywire. Suffice to say, I didn’t eat any of the salad, I simply found a lid and gave him the whole mess.

[SharonClark]

22. Me, too.

But my mom only likes white chunky tuna in oil. She also likes canned sardines and kippers.
That woman will eat anything!

[multigraincracker]

26. I eat about 10 cans to 1 of sardines.

To me they are cheaper and taste better. Also less mercury than any ocean fish you can eat. Only thing better is fresh sardines.

[LAS14]

27. I remember Julia Child saying you should always use tuna in oil, as it...

... tastest better. I use the water packed for most things, like tuna sandwiches, but I use the oil packed for tuna and celery over rice. They're just different.

[tikka]

7. I bought a can of bumblebee light chuck tuna a while back.

It was 1/3 water and the tuna was just fibers, no chunks. I wrote to the company and complained. They sent me coupons for worthless tuna.
Costco's tuna is pretty good.

[PCIntern]

44. You remind me of a story having nothing to do with tuna

I used to do sound recording when i was in high school for our arts festivals and plays, performances, etc., and someone bought us a box of 12, 7" reel to reel Tuck recording tape. When we rewound the tape it stretched in such a way that we actually had a cloverleaf pattern on the takeup reel. We sent a reel back to the company to get the money for the tape ( the donor had given us the receipt just in case we couldn't use it or didn't want to) and the company sent coupons for more of this shitty tape. We all burst out laughing.

[Hermit-The-Prog]

10. Smells and tastes like it laid on the dock for 3 days before being cleaned.

[taxi]

12. I always shake the cans first.

You can hear and feel the difference. Sometimes a whole batch of a particular brand will be soupy.

[happybird]

13. The Walmart brand (Great Value) chunk light is good

It’s definitely better than the Starkist or Bumblebee and a decent price. Nice, solid chunks, not the squishy stuff. They have a 4-pack deal.

[Patterson]

15. I did a head-to-head test about ten years ago.

Walmart was best and Bumblebee was worst.

[roamer65]

14. It's more radioactive than it used to be.

Fukushima Dai’ichi.

They actually use the radioactive cesium concentrations in the fish to determine their migration patterns in the Pacific.

Must be the radioactive cesium and strontium altering the taste.

[taxi]

17. What is the half-life of tuna these days?

[roamer65]

19. A good research project!

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[greenjar_01]

18. I heard West Coast milk was like drinking Hiroshima

You bad.

[Timewas]

24. Fortunately

I am lucky enough to be close to the coast here and can go buy fresh tuna right off the boats and then we can it, after doing that I will never go back to store bought.

[multigraincracker]

29. I love home caned salmon.

First smoke it for a couple hours and the can it.
Know I’m hungry.

[Goodheart]

25. I;m sure it's of poorer quality now, but it's always been nasty.

[PSPS]

28. I avoid tuna now, including for my cat. Too much mercury.

[multigraincracker]

30. See post 26.

I’m with you.

[highplainsdem]

31. Horrible compared to what it was decades ago. Haven't bought canned tuna in years.

[Buckeye_Democrat]

32. I only buy it in pouches.

The tuna that's packed in pouches is much drier.

I stopped eating the canned stuff years ago. It's always been too wet for me, and I don't think it's as tasty either.

[Blue_true]

33. It is not you.

I stopped eating Tuna a few years back, because even the chunk white, which was once premium, was garbage. It is like a fish was caught, skinned and gutted, then put through a grinder to turn meat and bone into something that was then canned.

[Mossfern]

36. Much worse than it used to be

and recently (the past few months)it's been horrible. We buy Bumblebee solid white tuna and lately it smells like cat food. Our go-to meal if we don't have anything planned used to be tuna salad sandwiches - we ended up throwing out the last batch because it was so vile.

[Keth]

37. tuna fish.. what a dish..

I don't know why, but when I saw this thread it made me think about a co-worker. She put up a sign in the lunch room asking folks not to open canned tuna because she couldn't stomach the smell. I think my fellow co-workers would bring canned tuna to work just to get under her skin.

When I make tuna salad, I usually mix one can of light tuna with one can of albacore before I add my celery, celery seed, purple onion, minced bread and butter pickles and a touch of dijon. I find all albacore is a little too dry. I do like Wild Planet.

My favorite tuna is Wild Planet's Albacore tuna fillets in a jar with olive oil. A little pricey at six dollars a pop, but I only buy it when I am making spaghetti. I like to add it to the sauce as it reminds me of when I was in Sicily and I first had pasta with fish.

[FlyingPiggy]

38. I get the canned sardines from Costco and I think they are great

[SkylineChili]

39. Wild Choice

Wild Choice out of Alaska for both Salmon (frozen and canned) and Tuna. Their Salmon chowder is amazing, and their quality is very high. Low mercury, sustainably caught, great customer service.

[mainer]

40. Buy only solid tuna, not chunk tuna

The chunk tuna is where they put the inferior bits and pieces.

[hunter]

42. Tuna was sold as an inexpensive replacement for canned chicken...

...Chicken of the Sea, etc..

I quit buying tuna a long time ago, using canned chicken instead.

Commercial hunting was banned a long time ago, you can't by passenger pigeons any more because they were hunted to extinction. Commercial fishing is similar to commercial hunting. It is not good for the ocean wilderness.

These days I'm mostly vegetarian.

[Doremus]

43. They're overfishing the oceans. Today's watery tuna is tomorrow's delicacy.

I guess if we can't see it in front of our faces it doesn't exist though. Good luck to our kids and grandkids.

[JustABozoOnThisBus]

45. It's just you. You are of poorer quality than you used to be.

As am I. Many of us have had our quality decline in the pandemic year.

Things are turning around, slowly. We will improve.

The tuna? Dunno, I don't remember canned tuna ever being all that great. It was just something to mix with other things.

Bon Apetit!

I have some cans of magical sardines, in oil. When I open a can, like magic, my cat appears from wherever she was napping. It's magic.