sockeye / red canned salmon

[AlaMoi]

for years we bought/used Faust label canned red salmon (sockeye...)

 

Trident has apparently bought itself into a monopoly on canned salmon.
old labels are "discontinued" - new labels now abound.
[see tridentseafoods dot com if you're interested]

looking on Amazon, for example, many brands are now shown as "discontinued"

I'm not a label freak - I'm a quality of contents freak....

seems most of the old labels have been 'replaced' by "Icy Point"

tried Icy Point multiple times - one a bit iffy, the others just fine.
it's not the label that is the problem.  

 

the problem is the physical can(s) - seems in the process of buying up all the competition and shutting down their facilities, Trident has installed/commissioned some off-standard canning equipment - none of the Icy Point cans will open with an OXO side opener.  

 

how and why a company would migrate to non-industry standard cans/seal dimensions is a total mystery - other than the probability the Chinese canning equipment was cheaper . . .

I'm using a WW2 C-Rat P-38 can opener to get at my sockeye salmon . . .  it's not pretty . . .

 

I emailed Trident presenting the issue - no response.  long time no response . . .

 

anyone know of a good quality canned sockeye/red salmon that isn't "Trident" made?

 

[Shel_B]

@AlaMoi asked "anyone know of a good quality canned sockeye/red salmon that isn't "Trident" made?"

 

 

I don't know who packs this, but I've been happy with it,

and it's one of two canned salmon products I purchase regularly.

Works fine with my middle-of-the-road OXO can opener.

 

Edited 8 hours ago by Shel_B (log)

[Vapre]

6 hours ago, AlaMoi said:

WW2 C-Rat P-38

Ain't broke, don't fix it. They make great stocking stuffers for kitchen-inclined people.