Sean@lemmy.worldM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years agoWhen you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?message-squaremessage-square33fedilinkarrow-up165arrow-down18file-text
arrow-up157arrow-down1message-squareWhen you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?Sean@lemmy.worldM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 2 years agomessage-square33fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBadass_panda@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·2 years agoYeah, I did a bit of poking around, check this out. Till the tuna canneries started showing up in the early 1900s in California, “tuna” was just as likely to prefix “cactus” as “fish”. Mystery solved I think
Yeah, I did a bit of poking around, check this out. Till the tuna canneries started showing up in the early 1900s in California, “tuna” was just as likely to prefix “cactus” as “fish”.
Mystery solved I think