What's the matter with tuna? I opened a very small can recently and it was so fishy and tinny I

[raccoon]

threw it away. Granted, this was a store brand. but still....

Has tuna gone way down in quality?

[seabeyond]

1. the mercury is so high in it i rarely use anymore. my oldest

doesnt do well digesting the shit.

[HopeHoops]

2. Chances are the store brand came from the same distribution channel as the main brands.

I quit trusting seafood shortly after I stopped eating meat ('89). Part of the reason was a batch of crabs my dad got - in Maryland, not west Pigsnuckle. At least half of them were too gross to eat. One smelled of ammonia, another like photographic chemicals, one was oozing who knows what (black shit) when you pulled off a leg, one had a weird green color to the meat, etc. He got these from a very reputable place, so it isn't like they were yesterday's dead shit. We'd opened a can of tuna a couple weeks before that and it had a terrible odor to it - not a rotten fish odor, but a chemical odor.

The commercial tuna fishing boats just haul the things in and sell them by the lot to whatever processing plants need them and they in turn sell whatever they have available to whatever brand needs pulp. There's very little if any real quality control in the system, other than for albacore. You're basically buying cat food regardless of what brand is printed on the label.

[woo me with science]

3. And if you ever bought the "chunk light" style you have to be very careful now.

Some brands don't even have chunks anymore. They are an emulsion of tuna particles and water that you can't even drain.

[marzipanni]

4. The store brand I buy is better than Bumblebee or Starkist

It's a brand distributed to independent grocers in the Northwest from Portland, Oregon,called 'Western Family'. The cans used to be 7 ounces, now the same size holds 5.5 oz..
Chunk light is what it says it is, not mushy bits in broth.

Albacore is a large tuna, therefore higher on the food chain, and due to that possibly has more mercury accumulation.

http://www.nmfs.noaa.gov/fishwatch/species/pac_albacore.htm

[grasswire]

7. store brands here are CHUNK light, better than major brands

Safeway, Kroger....both house brands of chunk light tuna are excellent. Real chunks of filet in the cans. No flakes. No goo. Good flavor.

[hedgehog]

5. Was it packed in water or oil? If oil, was it good oil or cheap oil?

[raccoon]

6. Water. nt

[Monique1]

8. Kirkland brand from Costco is the best

I can eat that without a problem but other brands I cannot tolerate.

[msanthrope]

12. Yes--Costco brand is very good. n/t

[marzipanni]

9. You did What? with What?!?!

[Gormy Cuss]

11. ROFL.

One more ounce of weight and that kitty wouldn't fit in that can.

[Kali]

10. you can tune a piano, but you can't tuna fish

what? somebody had to go there