Best tinned tuna

Whatever 'dolphin friendly' chunks one is on offer. I get about 8 x 4 packs whenever it's cheap as they last for ages.

Doesn't really bother me what they are in but probably prefer spring water.
 
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Has the price of tinned tuna shot up in the last 7 or so years, I'm sure it used to be about 25p per can
 
Stuff in sunflower oil i prefer to than brine. I have princes tuna chunks atm in the cupboard, there nice enough. No diff to say john wests ones as tried em both.

4 packs are about 3-4 quid.
 
Tuna has gone up to silly prices now. Genuinely feel sorry for people paying a quid per the little tin, I get huge multipacks from Costco for a fraction of the price.

John West Tuna also. :p
 
bledd. said:
Has the price of tinned tuna shot up in the last 7 or so years, I'm sure it used to be about 25p per can
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I imagine it's got something to do with the perceived dwindling stock of tuna in the sea.. Responsible fishing probably costs more, maybe.
 
:eek: people actually like the sainsburys stuff. It tastes like it has oily fish like sardines mixed in. Not like the clean tuner taste of every other canned tuna.
 
i only buy non dolphin safe tuna

According to an estimate by the Environmental Justice Foundation, each dolphin spared by switching from “non-dolphin-safe” fishing techniques to the most widely employed alternative costs the lives of 25,824 small tuna (these are discarded, not kept and utilized), 27 sharks and rays, 382 mahi mahi (also known as “dolphin fish”), 188 wahoo, 82 yellowtail and other large fish, 1 billfish such as a marlin or sailfish and 1,193 triggerfish and other small fish.
 
Glaucus said:
:eek: people actually like the sainsburys stuff. It tastes like it has oily fish like sardines mixed in. Not like the clean tuner taste of every other canned tuna.
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To be honest I haven't really compared - so the tuna in spring water also has this taste you mention?

mangobreeder said:
i only buy non dolphin safe tuna

According to an estimate by the Environmental Justice Foundation, each dolphin spared by switching from “non-dolphin-safe” fishing techniques to the most widely employed alternative costs the lives of 25,824 small tuna (these are discarded, not kept and utilized), 27 sharks and rays, 382 mahi mahi (also known as “dolphin fish”), 188 wahoo, 82 yellowtail and other large fish, 1 billfish such as a marlin or sailfish and 1,193 triggerfish and other small fish.
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Got a link to the source? Those figures seem pretty large...
 
Ahh tuna, I love tuna.

When I was gyming it hardcore at uni I ate about 10-12 tins a week. Used to regularly buy about 40-50 tins at a time whenever there was a special deal on. I've tried loads of them...Teco, Asda, Sainsburies, Morrisons, Princes, John West (only buy spring water/brine, the oil ones should be avoided) and I can definately say the best one is............ whatever the cheapest is, because they all more or less tasted exactly the same. I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that the places where they make the tins they all get the tuna from the same source, and just stick a different label on the tin.

Anyway yeah the prices are a bit of a joke right now. 50p a tin for the branded versions (in water) used to be a deal that was always on in at least one of the supermarkets..now they are just way over priced. So sticking to the supermarket own brands, prices were 45p a tin for ages, then suddenly went up to about 70p, and I think they are currently about 45p-60p depending on which supermarket.
 
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