Posted on 06/23/2021 6:20:25 AM PDT by Trump20162020
A New York Times analysis found no identifiable tuna DNA in Subway’s tuna sandwich, the newspaper reported over the weekend, citing tests conducted by a commercial lab.
The Times bought 60 inches of Subway tuna sandwiches from three different Subway locations in Los Angeles.
A reporter for the newspaper then removed and froze the tuna and sent it to an unidentified commercial food testing lab. The newspaper said it paid roughly $500 for the lab to conduct a PCR test to see if the substance had one of five different tuna species.
After a month, the lab said it found “no amplifiable tuna DNA was present in the sample and so we obtained no amplification products from the DNA.”
“Therefore, we cannot identify the species,” the lab said.
Elaborating on the results, a spokesperson for the lab told the Times that there were two different conclusions.
“One, it’s so heavily processed that whatever we could pull out, we couldn’t make an identification,” the spokesperson said. “Or we got some and there’s just nothing there that’s tuna.”
Subway declined to comment to the Times on the lab results.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
OK, so we know what it’s NOT, but do we know what it IS?
Cardboard ... and mayonnaise
Does it taste like tuna?
It did, however, test positive for cat fur and boiled yak face.
As opposed to that unique horror that is known as Burger King Chicken fries, which taste like little more than lightly-flavoured, and very highly-salted cardboard strips that were very briefly thrown into a deep-fryer.
As we used to say in high school....(55 years ago)
“Tuna, the fish that smells like a finger.”
<<< Does it taste like tuna? >>>
Yes! But better.
Because the NYT is so honest and incorruptible they would never make this up for the sake of a competitor’s ad dollars. If people like the food, they will eat the food.
Something fishy about this, because I am certain that a DNA test of NY Times wouldn’t find any and DNA belonging to a real news paper either
LOL! :-)
But it identifies as tuna, and that makes it tuna.
So, what did Subway do or say that warranted an anal probe by the NYT?
I read a story about two brothers who would bet each each other to do these crazy things for kicks. One of them is very allergic to chicken and carries an epi-pen just in case.
They’re sitting in a McDonald’s and the non-allergic brother bets the allegic one $100.00 to eat a nugget. Tells him not worry because he’ll hit him with the pen if anything goes wrong.
The allergic brother eats the nugget... nothing happened. Nothing.
Also, for those who didn't read past the headline, there's this from the article:
Inside Edition did its own test of the tuna sandwich in February, in which it had a Florida-based lab test sandwiches from three Subway locations in New York. That test confirmed that tuna was in the sandwiches.
So it could very well be that the NYT (shockingly...) cut some corners in terms of the testing it had done. Likely because they had a story narrative that they wanted to push.
I buy fake crab salad in the deli at my small town grocery. I know it's not crab. It's some sort of fish. They label it as seafood salad. But it looks like crab. It tastes like crab. And it's delicious.
If I was concerned that it wasn't crab, I wouldn't buy it.
Subway is total crap. I grew up in Philadelphia where mom an pop delis are all over the place. Nothing is pre-measured. Hoagie rolls are incredible, nothing like the crap bread at Subway. The meats and cheese sit in a refrigerated case and you know exactly what you are getting. Meats and cheeses are sliced directly on your hoagie roll. Anything like prepared food (tuna, meatballs) are top notch. Plus, there is usually a pickle barrel that lends a wonderful and unique aroma to the place. Those delis ruined me from wanting to go to Subway after the first time I tried subway.
I really can’t imagine that it would make economic sense for Subway not to use tuna in those subs.
Anything in the mix from Bill Clinton?
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