We know tuna is a fish is a wild statement when talking about americans
its tuna fish because it refers specifically to the canned tuna fish sandwich and additional ingredients.
Definitely the most worrying thing about America right now.
Horse back riding
If you don’t specify, Americans will ride the wrong part of the horse
For this one could it be horse back riding because people also used to have horse carts ? Unless in other countries it’s different lol
Thanks to Catherine the Great, we all have to specify which part of the horse we’re going to ride.
I thought it was Mr. Hands, the aerospace engineer, that made us require that distinction.
What was that acronym he came up with, something about I don’t need a bucket cuz the horse is just the right height 🤯
Honestly, I try to avoid knowing any more about him than I can. I know a bunch of meta details, but didn’t dig that far into it.
I bought some tuna fish and chai tea with cash i got from the atm machine
I love this comment, I’m going to save it on a PDF file.
This one is actually correct. PDF stands for Portable Document Format.
Ooops. I mixed it with some other then
cash money
obtained with my pin number
I would love to tune my bass
The opposite of “cow steak”
Steak is a cut, not a type of meat.
Steak is perpendicular to the grain, fillet is with.
So you can have a beef fillet or a salmon steak
But not “beefsteak,” because that’s a tomato
Tuna fish is the chicken bird of the sea water.
My aneurysm is acting up again
For the same reason that American cannibals eat human flesh
We have to specify so that Jessica Simpson doesn’t get confused with Chicken.
I just call it canned tuna. Or tuna from a can.
“Tuna fish” is a phase used primarily for canned tuna, but not for the live fish or things like tuna steak. It’s because when canned tuna was created in the US in the early 1900’s people who were not right next to the sea (like the majority of the US) did not know what “tuna” was. Firstly, the word is a of Spanish origin and secondly, its a salt water only fish. So in order to sell this to middle America, which was where most of the consumers were at the time but was also made up of people who have never seen the ocean, they added the word “fish” to show like other tinned fish that was commonly purchased: codfish, bluefish, and whitefish, this is also a fish and that is what you can expect when you open this can.
Tuna is just the dish, tuna on a plate.
Tuna Fish is actually Tuna Salad. You would order a tuna fish sandwich (tuna salad), but you would not go to a restaurant and say “I will have the tuna fish” because that is just tuna.
If I want the tuna salad, I’ll order tuna salad.
Also if I’m walking up to a sandwich shop or a restaurant that serves tuna steaks on a grill or something of the sort and say “I’ll have the tuna” the assumption is, they know I what I mean (variance for multiple dishes not included).
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.
