SARDINES

Stubble

How do you like them?  What is your favorite brand, favorite style?  

If you don't like them....do your parents know you're a communist?

Yakster

On crackers, whatever is on sale.  My Wife and youngest daughter love 'em.

Trykflyr_1

Comrade....  I like them best when someone else likes them more.

miller65rod

Smoked for the bigger ones and pan fried for the smaller ones. Not sure why people don't eat more of these. They b good.

First_Warrior

King Oscar wild caught sardines  Mediterranean style in olive oil, red bell peppers, garlic and black olives. Best sardines I have found.

webmost

King Oscar, the tiny ones, in olive oil, on saltines, with mustard, and a pickle on th side. I ate these cans by the hunnerds when I was a sailor. Best sailing rations ever. And the empty cans make decent chum, too.

Wylaff

Wild Planet. Newer brand. Pretty tasty. I like to cook them into my pasta sauce to trick everyone else into eating them.

TNBigfoot68

Remember eating them as a kid. Some years back i forgot my lunch, stopped at a road side market, picked up some sardines, had a wonderful lunch. About hour later I had the runs, and since then I have never had another sardine. 

BKDog

I prefer mustard or hot sauce with the canned fish products, but just about any will do me fine. Herring, kipper snacks, salmon, sardines -expired or not, I eat it.

And that picture is after my downsizing a few years back when I decided to cut down on my canned goods I keep stored. I ate Spam for about 3 months almost daily...sad to say I only keep less than 2 dozen cans of Bacon Spam now. It's still a favorite I have occasionally. Stuff will keep forever.

danielzreyes

canned in olive oil on steamed rice is my jam!

down to my last one. 

jlmarta

And frozen they’re great bait for striped bass....  👴🏻

Guitarded

Beach Cliff brand sardines in oil, hot sauce, crackers, Colby cheese, and ice cold Old Style. The typical lunch with my father when we worked together in the asphalt paving business. 
He also taught me how to get Vienna sausages out of the can without squashing em. 

dirtdude

King Oscar oil, was eating a can at work when running shovel and the can tipped over and drained the oil into the heating vent,  no way to get in there to clean it up,  the guy on the next shift hated me.

TNBigfoot68

My wife loves sardines, so I showed her the thread, today. Later while in the store she went over to the sardines. So I ask my Blonde wife who is typically brilliant, but does have her Blonde moments, so I asked, what are you doing we have sardines, she said I know, but I want to get some fresh ones.  At that point I reminded my wife that she is blonde. See she bought some fresh ons lol.  

Stubble

I got a fresh batch too!!

Usaf06

I like em best when you take them and throw em in the trash

Bob_Luken

Never had 'em. Always thought I'd hate 'em. Read this thread. Watched some "Trying Sardines for the First Time" YouTube videos. Almost all of the doubters in the videos, who thought they'd hate 'em, said the same thing, "not bad". So I bought two tins. One packed in water, one in Louisiana hot sauce. Who knows how many years they'll sit in the cabinet, but I'll keep ya' posted. 

0patience

Usaf06 said:

I like em best when you take them and throw em in the trash

^^^ yep. Gonna go with that.
A lot of Oregon and Washington people like Smelt. Not a fan of tiny fish.

TNBigfoot68

Bob_Luken said:

Never had 'em. Always thought I'd hate 'em. Read this thread. Watched some "Trying Sardines for the First Time" YouTube videos. Almost all of the doubters in the videos, who thought they'd hate 'em, said the same thing, "not bad". So I bought two tins. One packed in water, one in Louisiana hot sauce. Who knows how many years they'll sit in the cabinet, but I'll keep ya' posted. 

So after they sit on the shelf for a while @Bob_Luken, you do like the wife did, and go get you some "fresh" ones. 

webmost

Sardines and football, lunchtime. King Oscars, Grey Poupon, garlic pickles, saltines.

Dines and tines... way to go.

Bob_Luken

I tried 'em. 

Not bad. 

silvermouse

sardine sandwich, lettuce, a little mayo. Maybe once a year.

Yakster

You've got me thinking about sardine dip.

Wylaff

I was having a sardine and Swiss melt with some Dijon mustard. Turned around for 2 minutes and the little guy ate it. Guess I’ll need to get more sardines.

jlmarta

 IIRC, the good thing about sardines as compared to smelt is that sardines are at least gutted before they’re canned. Smelt are eaten whole. 

But that’s okay - I believe anchovies are also eaten whole and they’re extremely good. 

danielzreyes

Deep fried smelt on white rice! ..... that's my jam!

danielzreyes

Dark_Roast

Appatiser with a Tanqueray and tonic. Paired nicely. 

silvermouse

danielzreyes said:

oh for the days when sardines came with a key welded on to the bottom of the tin, none of this pansy heat-sealed mylar. A rite of passage was cutting your finger on the lid as it scrolled around the key.

danielzreyes

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