Tastes Like...

Tastes Like Wahoo (Tuna with Chili in Oil)

One of the interesting things about living here is seeing products on the shelves you don't see on the mainland. Canned wahoo is one of those products. Wahoo are normally a sport fish, not frequently commerically caught as they don't school frequently like yellow fin tuna due. They're usually solitary hunters that occasionally end up as by-catch in purse seine nets or on long lines. Thus American Samoa is one of the few places in the world where you can get canned wahoo which they use the by-catch to produce when there's enough around. Canned wahoo is very popular, more popular than demand so that's what causes things like can pictured above.

One of my observant friends picked up a can of this. It has the same color and layout of normal canned wahoo, only with the words "tastes like" sneaked in above "wahoo." There's also the yellow star that says "TUNA with Chili in oil." Very stealthy, Talofa, but we're on to you and your seasoned tuna impersonating wahoo.