Sean@lemmy.worldM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agoWhen you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?message-squaremessage-square98fedilinkarrow-up192arrow-down111file-text
arrow-up181arrow-down1message-squareWhen you order a tuna fish sandwich, do you say "tuna" or "tuna fish"?Sean@lemmy.worldM to Ask Lemmy@lemmy.world · 1 year agomessage-square98fedilinkfile-text
minus-squareBadass_panda@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up2·1 year 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