Tinned fish products

[Morning Glory]

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Pilchards on toast.

That is a wonderful thing indeed. Love it!

 

[Barriehie]

I’m struggling to think of anything just because I still make the things I like even from decades ago and have forgotten the stuff I didn’t like.

Maybe one that will make a lot of people want to vom, Pilchards on toast.
Very hot toast, loads of butter and tinned pilchards in tomato mashed up and spread onto the toast.
I always loved the contrast of the cold pilchards and the hot toast.

I buy those headless and dried 400 g at a time!!! Love the canned ones too!!!

 

[SoCalZone10]

I have to go to the Asian store to get sardines in tomato sauce, one of my favorites, but I prefer to eat them with crunchy crispy baguette.

 

[karadekoolaid]

I have to go to the Asian store to get sardines in tomato sauce, one of my favorites,

Nothing Portuguese around your area? The Portuguese would have us believe they live on sardines!

 

[SoCalZone10]

Nothing Portuguese around your area? The Portuguese would have us believe they live on sardines!

Nothing close here.

 

[badjak]

I also like sardines or pilchards on toast

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I buy those headless and dried 400 g at a time!!! Love the canned ones too!!!

Tinned pilchards used to be in every supermarket here. Now they’ve fallen out of favour and I can’t get them in any of the supermarkets. Sardines yes, lots of sardines but the big fat tinned pilchards no

My dad used to buy tins of pilchards, or sardines, and mash them up with malt vinegar. Sandwich time.
Now there's something I could enjoy from my youth.
Mostly though, I remember dishes from school and shiver uncontrollably. Fish (cooked for about 3 hours) in white sauce. Lancashire hot pot (I only ate the potatoes).Flummery (something between a floppy blancmange and an over-set jelly). Suet pudding. Spotted dick; so heavy, you could use it as a medicine ball.
Ahhh - here's one I used to enjoy: Sausage Lyonnaise - basically, British bangers drowned in an onion and gravy sauce. Yep, I'd revive that one.

Well I’ve never had them with malt vinegar and I can’t quite imagine it either but joy of joys recently a malt vinegar has been listed as gluten free (good on Sarsons!) so I had malt vinegar for the first time in decades last week.
Forbidden fruit always taste like bliss! I think I’m going to try out the malt vinegar fish on toast combo, thanks!

I have noticed of late that quite a few things that have been off the cards for many decades are now suddenly available to me again. It doesn’t appear the ingredients have changed in the majority of cases, more that they’re bothering to test and declare it GF which is a source of great joy for me

 

[Z-Cook]

I have to go to the Asian store to get sardines in tomato sauce, one of my favorites, but I prefer to eat them with crunchy crispy baguette.

Walmart? Tons

 

[Morning Glory]

Tinned pilchards used to be in every supermarket here. Now they’ve fallen out of favour and I can’t get them in any of the supermarkets. Sardines yes, lots of sardines but the big fat tinned pilchards no

I read somewhere they were overfished so fishing was restricted. Need to check that.

 

[SoCalZone10]

I read somewhere they were overfished so fishing was restricted. Need to check that.

My husband said the pilchards are fatter than the sardines, is that true or his memory is not correct. His mom didn’t like cooking fish either.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

I read somewhere they were overfished so fishing was restricted. Need to check that.

I know eels are a critically endangered species.
Over a 90% drop in numbers and yet people still eat it.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

My husband said the pilchards are fatter than the sardines, is that true or his memory is not correct. His mom didn’t like cooking with fish either.

Yes pilchards are a much bigger (rounder) fish.

 

[SandwichShortOfAPicnic]

Looks like Pilchard stocks are good in this country

 

[SoCalZone10]

I know eels are a critically endangered species.
Over a 90% drop in numbers and yet people still eat it.

It’s a delicacy for some Asian dish. I rarely have them unless I go to a nice Asian restaurant, which I haven’t been lately.

 

[Morning Glory]

Looks like Pilchard stocks are good in this country

Apparently most UK tinned pilchards came from Morroco where sardines have been over fished. A pilchard is a big sardine. Same species,.

But it also seems that sardines are struggling in warmed waters:

Specieswatch: Sardines doing well around UK, but struggling in warmer waters