Chicken of the Sea Tuna .......

[Stinky The Clown]

..... from Costco. The big cans.

"Product of Thailand"

[hippywife]

1. Okay...

:shrug:

[Stinky The Clown]

2. I always thought (assumed?) it was US caught tuna from our domestic fleet

The fleet sailed out of a number of Southern California ports, with the biggest fleet at San Diego ........



We also had a fleet in American Samoa.

[hippywife]

3. It's never safe

to assume anything anymore. I always read country of origin on the things we buy in the grocery.

Especially on produce. The big name produce companies have no compunction at all about growing in countries where there are much more lenient pesticide and herbicide regs than here.

[sandnsea]

4. I think the quality has deteriorated

A long time ago you could get regular canned chunk tuna, and then you could get really cheap grated tuna which was kind of disgusting like cat food. Now it seems like the disgusting stuff is the regular tuna and anything remotely good must be put in those aluminum packages or something. I buy albacore, although Bumble Bee doesn't seem to be as bad as StarKist or Chicken of the Sea.

They keep saying Americans are going to have to get used to a lower standard of living. Maybe that's why, the food we used to get as normal is now feeding more upper income people so there isn't any for us schmoes.

[grasswire]

5. The Kroger brand light tuna is great.

You should be able to get that at Fred Meyer. It's actual pieces of a whole fish, not little gratings. Seriously, it's a great value; always on sale for 69 cents or so.

[sandnsea]

6. I will try that

Thanks. I've been sticking with the tried and true lately because there's no teen-age boys to gobble up whatever I don't like, lol.

[Stinky The Clown]

7. We have found the Costco Kirkland (house brand) to be the best we've found in years

The solid white is exactly that ... solid and white. It is the model for which Chicken of the Sea was named but which it no longer resembles.

[hippywife]

8. I remember years ago

opening a can of tuna and having to flake it apart. That hasn't happened in well over a decade or so.

I don't know if it's just because of over-fishing or that combined with saving the better parts for the foil-packed stuff, as someone else mentioned.

[grasswire]

9. try your local store brand

It seems the store brands are better than the national brands. Safeway and Kroger both are like the old stuff, in my experience.

[Stinky The Clown]

10. You're right ... same applies to Costco's Kirkland brand

By the way, we find we really like a lot of the Safeway house brand stuff far better than the national brands .... not just their tuna ..... pretty much everything.

[hippywife]

11. Unfortuately, we don't have any

local store brands here in Oklahoma. We have the name brands and the generics in the neighborhood grocery stores. I just don't buy it very often for numerous reasons, anyway, But thanx for the suggestion. :hi:

[tishaLA]

12. Trader Joe's has really good tuna

they even have low sodium tuna.