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Quotes About Tuna

If you ever want to eat a tuna sandwich again, don't go to a tuna factory. I visited one where they had two lines: one was the human food line and one was the cat food line - and they didn't look any different.
~ Mark Mobius
Tal como lo señalan muchas investigaciones, agregar pectina a la dieta alimenticia reduce los niveles de colesterol en el hígado. En congruencia con hallazgos anteriores, los investigadores de este estudio afirman que la pectina de la tuna del cactus nopal reduce en forma significativa los niveles de colesterol hepático totales, libres y esterificados, al comparárselos con los niveles de sujetos sometidos a una dieta HC.
~ Ran Knishinsky
Consumir néctar o jalea de tuna es preferible a ingerir un extracto aislado de flavonoides o pectina de la fruta debido a que los otros compuestos presentes ejercen un efecto sinergético.
~ Ran Knishinsky
La pectina aislada de la tuna del nopal (Opuntia sp.) modifica el metabolismo de la lipoproteína de baja densidad en conejillos de la India alimentados con colesterol]. The Journal of Nutrition [Revista de la nutrición], vol. 120 (1990).
~ Ran Knishinsky
It takes fifteen pounds of wild fish to get you one pound of farm tuna. Not very sustainable. It doesn't taste very good either.
~ Dan Barber
The Feast of Fortuna had nothing to do with tuna, which was fine with Percy.
~ Rick Riordan
Maybe someday, when I'm moments from perishing at the hands of an intruder, TC will save me in a sudden and awe-inspiring display of supernatural power. Or maybe he'll decide I haven't given him enough tuna that week and leave me to my fate. He's a cat, so I figure my chances are about fifty-fifty.
~ Kelley Armstrong
Around the world, about a thousand dolphins are held in captivity, while millions have been killed in purse seine tuna nets and drift nets. Tens of thousands of others have been "sacrificed" in the name of scientific research, some marine mammals merely to find out what they've been eating.
~ Richard O'Barry
I didn't grow up hunting whitetail, but I would stalk tuna and white sea bass and yellowtail.
~ Brandon Webb
Dolphin-safe tuna, that's great if you're a dolphin. What if you're a tuna? Somewhere there's a tuna flopping around a ship going, "What about me? I'm not cute enough for you?"
~ Drew Carey
I guess since he keeps on kissing me I'm not a total failure at it; he's never pulled away in horror or gagged or anything. But then, aren't guys so perpetually sex-starved that making out with a slab of tuna would still be better than getting no action at all?
~ Jody Gehrman
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.
~ Jackee Harry
You eat canned tuna fish and you absorb protein. Then, if you're lucky, someone give you Dover Sole and you experience nourishment. It's the same with books.
~ Lois Lowry
Good tuna fish sandwiches; he's the tallest man I've ever seen. -Pam
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Take the tail of the female tuna—and I'm talking of the large female tuna whose mother city is Byzantium.
~ Mark Kurlansky
It's as if Japanese men, all to aware that deep inside they'd like to stomp Tokyo flat, breathe fire, and do truly terrible and disgusting things to women, have built themselves the most beautiful of prisons for their rampaging ids. Instead of indulging their fantasies, they focus on food, or landscaping, or the perfect cup of tea -- or a single slab of o-toro tuna -- letting themselves go only at baseball games and office parties.
~ Anthony Bourdain
Until the Meiji era, the highest-quality sushi shops preferred blue marlin, and tuna was - along with oily mackerel, saury, gizzard shard, and sardines - seen as lower-grade fish. When tuna was fish used for sushi in the nineteenth century, it was usually marinated in soy.
~ Sasha Issenberg
I really look at my childhood as being one giant rusty tuna can that I continue to recycle in many different shapes.
~ Augusten Burroughs
There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.
~ Heston Blumenthal
Thanks to this unusual data set, we now know that humans prefer cat food with a tuna or herbal flavor over cat food with the flavor descriptors "rancid," "offaly," "cereal," or "burnt." But humans, as we are about to see, are not cats.
~ Mary Roach
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.
~ Chrissy Teigen
What, exactly, are you doing?" "Dog-sitting." "Dog-sitting. Are all of your colleagues going out of town at the same time?" My mom was patient as a saint, but she said the word colleague as if it were coated with the oil drained off a can of tuna fish.
~ Haven Kimmel
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.
~ Rob Machado
Sometimes I dress like what I want for lunch, because all I can think about is having a tuna sandwich.
~ Mika