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Originally Posted by kyle19125
Maybe it's just me but I've never had or confused tuna served in sushi or sashimi as something that comes out of a can. Last I checked fresh sushi-grade tuna runs around $16-$20 a pound.
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Most tuna at sushi restaurants or served as sashimi is maguro which is blue-fin tuna or yellow-fin tuna(ahi). Canned tuna is cooked and usually cheaper and more plentiful and smaller skipjack tuna or albacore tuna(white meat). Which can be served as sashimi/sushi as well, but it's cheaper and often served seared instead of raw. Most of the time though, when you hear tuna sushi you're talking about blue-fin tuna most commonly. So most of the time it's not even the same type of tuna.
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