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I love eating Callipo tuna from Italy. not only is the quality of the tuna high, but they just know how to pack it. Not even the high end stuff from the pacific nw compares. I've often wondered why an American company can't figure out how to pack tuna in high quality olive oil to such result. the tuna is so tasty I don't even use mayo. just some onion, roasted pepper, and lemon juice. North Shore-based tuna giant Starkist faces an increasingly competitive industry
I'll go out on a Limb here and guess $$$$$. The process by which the Tuna is processed and packaged with Olive Oil costs too much and for that North Shore Tuna Company, it's all about the money.
Starkist, Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea all make a higher (than their usual) quality tuna in olive oil product, often with allusions to Italy (saying things like Genova Tonno, etc.), but I doubt it matches up with the Italian stuff. I wouldn't know, just not a canned tuna eater generally. Maybe I should try the ones from Italy in case they change my mind.....
Canned tuna is all the "scrap" tuna anyways. You can put lipstick on a turd, but in the end, it is still a turd! Give me some fresh bluefin, yellowfin, or bigeye and I'm a happy man.
Starkist, Bumble Bee and Chicken of the Sea all make a higher (than their usual) quality tuna in olive oil product, often with allusions to Italy (saying things like Genova Tonno, etc.), but I doubt it matches up with the Italian stuff. I wouldn't know, just not a canned tuna eater generally. Maybe I should try the ones from Italy in case they change my mind.....
it's actually quite good...doesn't taste anything like a turd. I bought my dad a couple of cans of callipo and got "best tuna I've ever had." doesn't even taste like the same fish. admittedly I do pay more for it, $3.75 can (5.5 oz). I had stopped eating most canned tuna and when I did, I'd load it up with mayo. now it's good right out of the can. i tried making tuna sauce a few years back with regular canned tuna and it tasted like crap (marcella hazan's cookbook). I made it with callipo and it was quite good. I just wonder why they can't replicate that here. I'm sure you're right, they use crap oo and the cheapest tuna here where they may have higher standards in Italy.
Am I the only person who doesn't buy tuna in oil? I always buy the water packed version. The oil version just seems gross to me.
I always bought water-packed back when I did, but then I always had to do something rather significant to the tuna to eat it. Basically I came to the realization that I didn't care for it. The difference being described about this versus the Italian one packed in olive oil, though, makes me curious to try a can of that just to see if it might change my mind a little.
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