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Strubs makes a pickled herring but Ed can't seem to find it in the regular grocery stores in Peterborough, including Superstore and Sobeys.  I've now tried the one by Feature, and while it musters a pass, I'd still like to find the one by Strubs.  I see that @Anna N and @ElsieD have posted about pickled herring in the past.  What kind did you use and where did you buy it?  

 

Peterborough is a fairly provincial city and some things just don't sell here.  But I'd certainly like to find Strubs.  Any thoughts, please.

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Try Maggie's Meat and Dutch Market in Peterborough.  If they have the dutch pickled herring, it will be very good.  I am going out today and am likely to be going to Loblaws and Metro.  I'll see what they have.

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1 hour ago, Darienne said:

Any thoughts, please.

I do not think I have ever seen Strubs pickled herring. But then I don’t usually buy my pickled herring at a supermarket. Mine usually comes from Denningers. 

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49 minutes ago, Anna N said:

I do not think I have ever seen Strubs pickled herring. But then I don’t usually buy my pickled herring at a supermarket. Mine usually comes from Denningers. 

 

Denninger's pickled herring is the best and I always pick up a few jars when I'm in the area.  But I have had the pickled herring from the Dutch store here and it too is very good.  I'm not much of a fan of the stuff in the grocery stores.  Bring on August!  I'll be down there and will be picking some up.

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4 hours ago, Darienne said:

Strubs makes a pickled herring but Ed can't seem to find it in the regular grocery stores in Peterborough, including Superstore and Sobeys.  I've now tried the one by Feature, and while it musters a pass, I'd still like to find the one by Strubs.  I see that @Anna N and @ElsieD have posted about pickled herring in the past.  What kind did you use and where did you buy it?  

 

Peterborough is a fairly provincial city and some things just don't sell here.  But I'd certainly like to find Strubs.  Any thoughts, please.


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3 hours ago, ElsieD said:

 

Denninger's pickled herring is the best and I always pick up a few jars when I'm in the area.  But I have had the pickled herring from the Dutch store here and it too is very good.  I'm not much of a fan of the stuff in the grocery stores.  Bring on August!  I'll be down there and will be picking some up.

In what area please?

 

Added:  Ah, I see.  Hamilton and so on.  

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5 hours ago, ElsieD said:

Try Maggie's Meat and Dutch Market in Peterborough.  If they have the dutch pickled herring, it will be very good.  I am going out today and am likely to be going to Loblaws and Metro.  I'll see what they have.

I just called Maggie's.  The herring is straight from Holland and is salted, not pickled.  Might try it anyway.  Thanks. 

 

We don't have a Loblaws and although we have a Metro, it is in a part of the city we don't usually go to although we would.  We do go there once in a while to stock up on Muffaletta. 

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I was in Metro and they did not have it.  I did not get to Loblaws, but I will be before too long and I'll check there also.  Too bad about Maggie's.  I had hoped they might have had it.  The Dutch are very fond of pickled herring.

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Okay.   Teach me about pickled herring.    Spurred on by posts on another board, I picked up some at my carriage trade market recently but found it too "fishy" for me.   I like raw shellfish, graflox and cerviches but this was distinctively off-putting    Not a good product or just me?

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My experience with pickled herring suggests yours was not fresh.  Pickled fish does not improve with age.  If the edges have turned what I think of as a brownish colour, it suggests to me that it has been sitting for a while.  You want the cut side of the fish to be the same colour as the innards.  Not fresh pickled herring = fishy taste.

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I don't  do shellfish and I like gravlax and ceviche.   I didn't find the pickled herring too 'fishy'...but then what does too 'fishy' mean?  Perhaps you should try another brand before you make up your mind.  

 

Certainly a lot of folks hate pickled herring.  I hadn't had it since childhood and the reason I picked some up a couple of months ago, is that a dear friend was doing one of those ubiquitous and mindless online quizzes...you get x number of points for every dish you will eat...or won't eat...and that's when I learned that she hated pickled herring.  So off we went to buy some.  I have promised not to serve it to her next visit.  :raz:

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