cjh wrote:I think the nicest ones (at least that you find in the UK) are French or Portuguese that are canned in olive oil, they taste delicious and seem to have better texture.

As fine a snack as the canned item is, you simply can't beat the cheap and simple joy of grilled sardines in summer.

mm hmm, canned ones are good with a lot of chili sauce. I will eat the hell out of the grilled ones too, they are really good.

madlee wrote:

zom-zom wrote:they're actually a very healthy addition to the diet.

listen to zom. they are good for you and unlike most other fish have no mercury.

they have less mercury. (apparently because they reach full size quickly, are small, and don't eat other fish. in any case, you'd probably have to eat a shitload of them to get enough mercury to matter.

Also, gross as shit.

Delicious. I have them at least once a week, usually mashed up with a fork on toast.

I like them in all their varieties, especially with a tomato, smoked paprika and chili sauce.

I eat them about once a week as well. I fix them with some marinara sauce over some type of pasta. That's kind of a traditional Sicilian dish.

Coated in flour and fried, or from the tin, I eat them weekly. Go well with artichoke hearts on pizza or broken-up as a sauce with pasta.

Tin-wise, the Canadian ones are much more substantial. And they've just started selling fresh Cornish sardines at my supermarket, so I always buy extra packs and freeze them. It think it's been reintroduced to encourage people to eat a wider range of more sustainable, and local fish.

The cat always gets one, too.

Sardines are great. And cold-water oily fish are very healthy, what with the Omega 3's and everything. I like to make sardine salad with onions, lemon juice, mustard, a little mayo, and green apple.

I've had some great sardine pasta dishes at Italian restaurants.

You now, I've never really noticed the bones.

Cranius wrote:....at my supermarket...

Can you hook me up with a case of chocolate covered Hob-Nobs at cost?

zom-zom wrote:

Cranius wrote:....at my supermarket...

Can you hook me up with a case of chocolate covered Hob-Nobs at cost?

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