--- title: Jessica Simpson Sent a Perfect Tuna Tweet to Whole Foods description: Simpson recalls her Chicken of the Sea confusion in a tweet commiserating with Whole Foods, who had to recall a mislabeled tuna product. canonical: https://time.com/4851671/jessica-simpson-on-tuna-whole-foods/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-07-10T17:19:55.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:45:14.918Z og:title: Jessica Simpson Feels Whole Foods' Chicken Tuna Mix-up Pain og:description: The former 'Newlyweds' star isn't afraid to call up her past snafus og:url: https://time.com/4851671/jessica-simpson-on-tuna-whole-foods/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd27755b04dd017c1/6988d50ebc6cfc5a843e22b5/jessica-simpson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3000 og:image:height: 1688 og:image:alt: Celebrity Sightings in New York City - April 20, 2017 og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Jessica Simpson Feels Whole Foods' Chicken Tuna Mix-up Pain twitter:description: The former 'Newlyweds' star isn't afraid to call up her past snafus twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd27755b04dd017c1/6988d50ebc6cfc5a843e22b5/jessica-simpson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Jessica Simpson Just Crushed This Response to Whole Foods and It Was Worth the Wait > Sponsored content. 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(Photo by Gotham/GC Images) Gotham—GC Images  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Jul 10, 2017 5:19 PM UTC Looks like [Jessica Simpson](http://time.com/4031005/jessica-simpson-nick-lachey-marriage/) is getting the last word. In a tweet posted Sunday, singer and former _Newlyweds_ reality show star Simpson called up one of her most iconic lines from that early-2000s television series — all in response to an unfortunate [mixup at Whole Foods.](http://time.com/4843860/whole-foods-chicken-tuna-salad-recall/) Whole Foods recently discovered that tuna had been mislabeled and found in the buffalo chicken salad product sold in packets at the popular grocery chain, unbeknownst to customers seeking a poultry-based protein, not an aquatic one. Last week, Whole Foods recalled about 440 pounds of the “chicken” salad, which had been distributed at Whole Foods locations in Connecticut, New Jersey and New York. When Simpson learned of this news, she clearly couldn’t hold back from rehashing her famous past with the “Chicken of the Sea” brand tuna comment. [Back in 2003](http://people.com/tv/jessica-simpson-chicken-of-the-sea-meme/), she bore the brunt of pop culture ire after musing onscreen about her confusion of whether she was consuming chicken or tuna, based on the brand’s name. While Simpson was puzzled, her then-husband Nick Lachey tried to clear it up for her. Thirteen years later, Simpson gets it. “It happens to the best of us,” she tweeted wryly to Whole Foods about their own confusion. > [](https://twitter.com/JessicaSimpson/status/884074246913351685) Fans of the singer — who, as it happens, is also celebrating her 37th birthday on Monday — are here for her coy comeback. > [](https://twitter.com/JSim07/status/884101379345620992) > [](https://twitter.com/Sharipep/status/884119624320782337) > [](https://twitter.com/eolsencreative/status/884198946255421440) > [](https://twitter.com/ThembiDuncan/status/884142434816598017) > [](https://twitter.com/RedCarpetRachel/status/884094435276988416) > [](https://twitter.com/margotjd/status/884095696307191808) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4851671/jessica-simpson-on-tuna-whole-foods/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4851671/jessica-simpson-on-tuna-whole-foods/"},"headline":"Jessica Simpson Just Crushed This Response to Whole Foods and It Was Worth the Wait","datePublished":"2017-07-10T17:19:55.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:45:14.918Z","description":"Simpson recalls her Chicken of the Sea confusion in a tweet commiserating with Whole Foods, who had to recall a mislabeled tuna product.","url":"https://time.com/4851671/jessica-simpson-on-tuna-whole-foods/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Food & Drink","viral","Whole Foods"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd27755b04dd017c1/6988d50ebc6cfc5a843e22b5/jessica-simpson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltd27755b04dd017c1/6988d50ebc6cfc5a843e22b5/jessica-simpson.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"Celebrity Sightings in New York City - April 20, 2017","caption":"Celebrity Sightings in New York City - April 20, 2017","creditText":"Gotham—GC Images","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4851671/jessica-simpson-on-tuna-whole-foods/","name":"Jessica Simpson Just Crushed This Response to Whole Foods and It Was Worth the Wait"}}]}] ```