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Tuna cat food gets no pull tabs
Cat food people can everything but tuna
Tuna processors have different canning machinery.
Dear Matthew Alice: Why is it that every flavor of cat food comes in pull-tab cans except tuna? Tuna cat food always comes in a regular can that requires a can opener. — Dick Fitzwell, Lakeside
In spite of what you may have heard, M.A. is nobody’s fool. And nobody’s cat owner either. So I trotted right down to the local mart to check this one out. Sounded highly improbable to me. But the evidence was right there on the shelf. Stuff like kitty-style tenderloin tips in Madeira mushroom sauce and Peking duck or whatever the heck people feed their cats these days come in quick-open cans with pull-tab tops. Languishing next to all the gourmet fare are cans marked simply “tuna” or “tuna in sauce," none of which were the easy-open type. A call to the Alpo folks revealed that the company has several canneries, not all of which have the same type of canning machinery. Their tuna-canning facility only offers non-pull-tab tops. Gourmet kitty fare, they say, is cooked and canned in more modern facilities. The next cat food vendor I tried said they, too, just happened to have the old-style machinery in their tuna factory. Seemed like too much of an odd coincidence for me, so applying a little pressure, I got vendor number two to confess that tuna cat food is canned by tuna processors, the same folks who package tuna people food; the cat food vendor simply affixes its own label. Tuna people food is sold in the traditional-style cans, so tuna cat food is too.
Here's something you might be interested in.
Tuna cat food gets no pull tabs
Cat food people can everything but tuna
Tuna cat food gets no pull tabs
Cat food people can everything but tuna
Tuna processors have different canning machinery.
Dear Matthew Alice: Why is it that every flavor of cat food comes in pull-tab cans except tuna? Tuna cat food always comes in a regular can that requires a can opener. — Dick Fitzwell, Lakeside
In spite of what you may have heard, M.A. is nobody’s fool. And nobody’s cat owner either. So I trotted right down to the local mart to check this one out. Sounded highly improbable to me. But the evidence was right there on the shelf. Stuff like kitty-style tenderloin tips in Madeira mushroom sauce and Peking duck or whatever the heck people feed their cats these days come in quick-open cans with pull-tab tops. Languishing next to all the gourmet fare are cans marked simply “tuna” or “tuna in sauce," none of which were the easy-open type. A call to the Alpo folks revealed that the company has several canneries, not all of which have the same type of canning machinery. Their tuna-canning facility only offers non-pull-tab tops. Gourmet kitty fare, they say, is cooked and canned in more modern facilities. The next cat food vendor I tried said they, too, just happened to have the old-style machinery in their tuna factory. Seemed like too much of an odd coincidence for me, so applying a little pressure, I got vendor number two to confess that tuna cat food is canned by tuna processors, the same folks who package tuna people food; the cat food vendor simply affixes its own label. Tuna people food is sold in the traditional-style cans, so tuna cat food is too.
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