I Like Sardines

[shouldazagged]

I like King Oscar Kippered Herring. Yum!

Charlie

Yum, indeed. But I used to be able to buy real Scottish kippers at my nearest Kroger store. Introduced my late wife to kippers and eggs, one of our favorite Sunday breakfasts. Now imported kippers are more of a special-order item in this town, and cost approximately their weight in emeralds.

 

[BruceHMX]

My late wife would make us sardine and onion sandwiches for lunch at our beach house in the summertime, which we washed down with Salty Dogs! Then we always had to take a nap. God, how I miss her!

medxam

I know the feeling. My Mom would make fried egg, mayo, onion and relish sandwiches on Sunday afternoons. When I get to feeling down or remember a moment like that I make one.

Go out and get you a couple cans and an onion.

 

[BruceHMX]

I love them and so does my son. In mustard or hot sauce. They are also good in ramen noodles. Dump the whole can in grease and all.

 

[Mike McLellan]

Kippered snacks heated under the broiler, served with hash browns and eggs (over medium). Breakfast fit for human consumption.

 

[Moonman]

Sardines/Mustard Sauce or Olive oil on Crackers or topping a salad. Works for me.

 

[longhair]

Grew up eating sardines on saltines. Discovered that rinsing them with vinegar really cleaned the flavor. Dab a bit of dijon mustard, small piece of hoop cheese, and a slice of raw onion, pure goodness.

 

[Comrad]

Smoked Whiting

 

[S&WIowegan]

My wife absolutely loves them! I can eat them and kinda like'em but don't crave.

 

[Ruger Nut]

For y'all that eat these stinky salty little fish, do you carry breath spray or mints with you?

 

[Fishslayer]

Used to eat the heck out of those on West Pacs. Ship's store carried a couple different types of sardines, smoked oysters...

When the groundpounders were aboard who had nothing better to do than show up in the chow line 2 hours early ya kinda had to forage for what you could get.

 

[duppie]

For y'all that eat these stinky salty little fish, do you carry breath spray or mints with you?

No Sir... I instead reminisce upon my youth crewing on sailing yachts through the Caribbean and all the lady friends I've made.....some of whom reminded me of a stormy ocean.

 

[Cyrano]

I like them, packed in soybean oil, for lunch. Triscuit is a good cracker for me with them. My wife didn't like anything fishy, and couldn't even watch me eat them. I showed my daughter my pantry with a stack of four cans. She said that's about a three lifetime supply for her.

 

[DeathGrip]

I'm married and expect to stay that way.

No bait fish for me.

 

[Clean Break]

I love them.... for bait. These are from last year and I need some more for this year.

We fillet them and wrap a piece onto our Kwikfish lures for scent.

This technique was invented on the Sacramento River by a guy named Clancy (a guide who I fished with last year on the Cowlitz River for steelhead). C.B.
Here's Clancy:

 

[Texas Star]

I love them.... for bait. These are from last year and I need some more for this year.

We fillet them and wrap a piece onto our Kwikfish lures for scent.

This technique was invented on the Sacramento River by a guy named Clancy (a guide who I fished with last year on the Cowlitz River for steelhead). C.B.
Here's Clancy:

C.B.-

Is that a steelhead that you're holding? Nice fish!

 

[Bob R]

I have sardines and kippers in the pantry. When I eat them, the cats are happy, well, cat now. At one time I would have 3 cats lined up in front of me for their share of the sardines, now it is just one.

About the best use of smoked oysters I ever made was when we were flying down low over the ocean (2-500ft), getting beat up by the wind and turbulence, hotter than the dickens in the back of the plane (P3), the smell of ozone heavy in the air from the gram paper being burned as we tracked a sub, and I would be kind enough to open a can of smoked oysters and go to the rest of the crew and offer them some. Usually by holding it under their nose, so they could enjoy the aroma of such a wonderful food. I would get an occasional taker, usually the ordnanceman, but more often than not I would get called an unkind word, right before we saw what the guy had for breakfast! Ahhhhhh, those were the days.

bob

 

[carpriver]

My grand father got me to eating sardines when I was but a wee lad. Sardines in oil on soda crackers and a small coke. We would eat smoked herring, potted meat, vienna sausage on crackers. He all ways carried those items when he went fishing or hunting and even berry and mushroom picking. I followed him like a puppy.

 

[dewey]

No STINKY
'lil fish that will FIT IN A CAN in your shirt pocket for me !
TANKS but NO TANKS ! ! !
Bait is BAIT !

 

[old bear]

I enjoy sardines in mustard sauce every now and then, what I really like is anchovy filets, either in a salad or on crackers.

 

[ASA335]

Sardines in olive oil, kippered herring, pickled herring (I used to help my Swedish Grandmother put the pickled herring together each fall - Yum), smoked any-fish (but especially smoked salmonids or sturgeon), all Good Eats!