This week there are mainly tids and bits to write about – along with yet another word change to pass along. Speaking of which, the seafood industry has dropped the creativity ball while trying to enhance the terminology associated with its canned products, like tuna, salmon, herring, mackerel, crab, shrimp and so on. Even liberal wordists will balk over the recently coined industry term ambient seafood. Yep, that’s the new term for room-temp products associated with long-term storage items.

It’s understood that a new cover term was in order since there are a growing number of mainstay seafood items that come…