Tuna Quotations

'A Tuna Christmas' is the second in a series of plays created by Joe Sears and Jaston Williams featuring the fictional town of Greater Tuna, the third-smallest town in Texas. What makes these plays so hysterically funny is the accurate portrayal of small-town life in the Lone Star State.

White sharks and tuna travel for thousands of miles before returning to the same hot spot just as salmon do when they return to the same stream. These journeys are the marine equivalent of wildebeest migrations that take place on the Serengeti plain in Africa.

The best meal I've had was in Tavarua, an island in Fiji. It was just before sunset. A bunch of guys had just caught all this yellow fin tuna; they literally brought this huge wooden table down to the sand, pulled the tuna from the boat, dropped it on top of the table, pulled the skin off and sliced the tuna up.

I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.

My mornings go by so fast I forget breakfast. Lunch - that's turned out to be my biggest meal. I like tuna fish with low-fat mayonnaise and celery, egg whites and garlic. It's delish.

I refuse to believe that trading recipes is silly. Tuna Fish casserole is at least as real as corporate stock.

I like tuna when there's a definite streak of deep pink in the middle, medium rare so to speak, and it comes out best when it's not cut too thick.

A tuna steak and a salad? Seventy bucks. Welcome to Los Angeles.

Sometimes I miss hamburgers, I should say that. I miss the tuna pizzas at Mercer Kitchen.

Bluefin tuna is sort of like the cheetah of the ocean. It's the fastest fish. It's a warm-blooded fish. But it's got a $100,000 price tag on its head.

My favorite off-camera memory of Jon Stewart is watching him jump from the second level of a tuna tower into the waters off Grand Cayman.

You ever go to shop for tuna, and it says "dolphin safe", and you look at it and kind of go, "Yeah, but"-like somehow you think it's not going to be as good? Like, "I want to do the right thing-but it's probably kind of bland without the dolphin."

The fact that mercury is consistently found in tuna and swordfish ... is troubling, especially when there's no good communication of that to the public.

Shark fishing is not like tuna fishing. Your chances of catching one are good.

If we could just get the stores to post the FDA advice, warning people to avoid swordfish, shark, tilefish and king mackerel, and to limit albacore tuna and tuna steaks to six ounces per week, that would go a long way to help people get the benefits without the risks.

If all you've had for the past three weeks is pizza, tuna fish looks pretty good.

I eat tuna fish every day for lunch. That's all I ever have.

From the standpoint of public health, the real risk for the public is not getting enough fish and canned tuna in the diet. We need to end the confusion over mercury in fish for the welfare of all Americans and especially low income consumers whose health will benefit the most from consuming fish and canned tuna on a regular basis. Those who depend on canned tuna the most need to know how healthy and safe this product is.

I was eating tuna four times a week,

It is heartbreaking to hear your animal like that. Normally, the cat will come down on his own if you leave tuna or a can of food at the base of the tree.

Large fish such as tuna are shown already cut into fillets and bought by the block. Fillets should be almost transparent. Avoid tuna that looks rainbow-colored or black.

People are putting themselves at risk if they eat tuna every day.

Rinsing out tuna cans and tying up newspapers may make you feel virtuous, but recycling could be America's most wasteful activity.

Those are things that are very hard for us to buy as pantries. We cannot pay a dollar for a can of tuna for one family. That'd be good for one person, but we have a lot of eight- and 10-people families. You think how far one can of tuna would go. Not very far.

This study provides encouragement to all American men who are concerned about prostate cancer. Accumulating evidence suggests that the omega-3 fatty acids in seafood may exert a protective effect against the spread of prostate cancer. A simple step like adding canned tuna and other fatty fish to the diet can help stop the spread of this disease in men with early prostate cancer. This information may help men make wiser food choices.

It's not the kind of tuna that I eat.

In Africa, as resources inevitably disappear, people have to make do with a lot less. You have to be much more ingenious with a lot less, and accept that you can't get your perfect tuna sandwich on a street corner.

There has been evidence that children have been slowing down mentally and physically, having physical problems that were due directly to eating too much tuna fish.

FDA's latest findings about mercury levels in canned tuna should end the debate over whether canned tuna is a safe and healthy food for all Americans. No one is at risk from the minute amounts of mercury in any form of canned tuna.

The whole thing is low key, low cost, very inexpensive, and at the dinner last year I had the best baked tuna I've had in my life. Some local folks got together to cook for us and did a great job. Just delicious.

The upshot is that anybody who's been catching salmon for a living is either going to hope to hell that the tuna start showing up, or find something else to do.

It's my softer side. I go out there and relax. I'm a big fisherman. I love to fish ... in the Pacific Ocean, for tuna and rockfish.

If there are some of those tuna that have higher levels, then that will come out through the testing by means of an average.

I love sashimi, mainly tuna sashimi. I will buy six pieces or so a day and just snack on them. Sometimes I wrap them up in my mini seaweed sheets.

I brought you a tuna sandwich. They say it's brain food. I guess because there's so much dolphin in it, and you know how smart they are.

I do love sharks. The tuna fishermen go and fin the sharks and dump 'em back into the ocean. It's basically mutilation.

Am I eating chicken or tuna?

Sometimes I dress like what I want for lunch, because all I can think about is having a tuna sandwich.

And it might be more fun if the flesh on those tapered limbs were better. But chicken was dry. Two kinds of steak met one kind of fate: flavorlessness. Tuna joined them in that ignoble, insipid land.

The challenge was to collect the most amount of canned tuna in oil, Spam, peanut butter, and stew. These items are high in protein and fat, components that are missing from the Haitian diet.

To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.

And I have stopped eating tuna until the tuna nets cease killing tens of thousands of dolphins every single year.

The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy.

Percy frowned "You have a feast for tuna?