Canned sardines & other tinned seafood

[Anchobrie]

19 hours ago, Dr. Teeth said:

These were really superior.

They look spectacular to me!

[blue_dolphin]

Almost ran out of anchovies … Phew - reinforcements have arrived. Crisis averted!

I love how nicely packed they are. 
 

Edited to add that I just realized there's no tin here so I’m out of compliance with the topic title. Ooops.

 

 

 

Edited August 27 by blue_dolphin (log)

[Ddanno]

6 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

Almost ran out of anchovies … Phew - reinforcements have arrived. Crisis averted!

I love how nicely packed they are. 

 

Those are some fatties! I'm very jealous.

[blue_dolphin]

1 minute ago, Ddanno said:

Those are some fatties! I'm very jealous.

Yes, they offer smaller jars but I’m pretty sure the bigger ones have fatter fish!

[Ddanno]

18 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

Yes, they offer smaller jars but I’m pretty sure the bigger ones have fatter fish!

 

They really do, I'll dig a photo out for what I can get a hold of

 

Edit: this is about as good as it gets. Note the weight. A mighty 95g!

 

https://www.ocado.com/products/fish-4-ever-anchovies-in-organic-olive-oil/64364011

 

There's probably an importer for big Spanish/Portuguese specimens (or was, thank you Brexit) but lord knows what the prices are like now.

 

My Ma is off on a cruise round there in a couple of weeks, I've asked if she can grab some (and possibly woken her up which will make her too annoyed to bother 😄)

Edited August 27 by Ddanno (log)

[liuzhou]

Sadly, the only  anchovies I can find here (apart from other fish mistranslated) are these.

 

 

These are Italian and not intrinsically bad but I like my anchovies packed in salt, not oil.

I did buy a few cans of the salted last time I was in the UK (2019) and smuggled them into China but they now are long gone.

 

 

Edited August 28 by liuzhou (log)

[Kerala]

That's an air fryer jacket potato on the plate with the sardines. These were very good with a dab of peperoncino preserve, mashed into the spud. I used the olive oil from the tin instead of butter.

[Kerala]

Oh, I do love anchovies! No one else at home eats them, so it's not that often I open a tin or bottle. I don't like the olive oil clagging up in the fridge, so I'll search out some packed in salt.

Edited September 7 by Kerala (log)

[liuzhou]

To my surprise, as I generally prefer my oysters au naturel, I'm rather partial to these on occasion.

 

[MaryIsobel]

On 9/13/2025 at 6:42 PM, liuzhou said:

To my surprise, as I generally prefer my oysters au naturel, I'm rather partial to these on occasion.

 

Smoked oysters remind my of a night with my Dad when I was about 9 or 10. My mom was out and he came into the room where I slept with my younger sister and waved his cigarette in a circle, which was our code for "your sister is sleeping, you can get up." I did and we had smoked oysters with saltines and my first tiny sip of beer. "Don't tell your Mom about the beer." Fast forward about 55 years and my dad was in long term care. I brought smoked oysters and saltines and a bottle of beer. "Don't tell the nurses about the  beer." Full circle.