Canned sardines & other tinned seafood

[Kerala]

Marks and Spencer's posh line

 

 

Skinless, boneless, but a lovely clean taste and firm texture. As good as any I've ever bought in a UK supermarket.

 

[Kerala]

These on the other hand were a bit disappointing.

 

 

Maybe I just don't like the small sardines. The flesh falls apart too easily, and the taste is a bit processed- not a happy mouthful for me. Average.

[liuzhou]

Here's what we are up against.

 

Sounds good. Right?  Wild, sustainable. Very good from a wild planet. No salt added.

Then turn the box over.

Caught in the North Pacific, flown all the way to Thailand, processed there and shipped all the way back to the US. Then shipped to me in China. Near Thailand.

 

And what's this in the ingredients. Salt!

 

I am however surprised but delighted to learn the can of sardines contains, of all things, fish.  

 

 

Edited Thursday at 12:53 PM by liuzhou (log)

[Anchobrie]

On 5/28/2025 at 3:57 PM, Kerala said:

These on the other hand were a bit disappointing.

 

 

Maybe I just don't like the small sardines. The flesh falls apart too easily, and the taste is a bit processed- not a happy mouthful for me. Average.

 

The small sardines tend to be different species (Sarsinella sp). 

I avoid them and go for the true pilchards, and the larger, the better; so essentially we are in the same boat. 

 

BTW, I see you are based in UK. I have read in some webs that the cannery industry in morocco are out of fish stock, and no much sardines are landing at its ports, so there may be soon a drop in availability ( sources said ~50% of the sardine tins in UK came from morocco, like for example the ones from your previous post from Marc and Spencer )

 

I found one link

 

https://www.thegrocer.co.uk/news/tinned-sardines-shortages-loom-as-morocco-supply-non-existent/702375.article

 

 

[liuzhou]

4 hours ago, Anchobrie said:

(Sarsinella sp)

 

Sardinella.

[Kerala]

Thanks for that, @Anchobrie

Gloomy reading indeed!