I get the wildest food recipe ads on Instagram
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I am basically grossed out by packaged tuna & sardines in particular, and the idea canned fish as a whole. I do like the way the fancy brand cans look, “oh if only these nicely designed metal tins with their finely printed uncoated paper wrappers were filled with something other than old oily fishes,” I think as I walk through Central Market.
But I went to Aldi and it is apparently “German Week”, when they have various traditional German packaged convenience foods on offer for low prices direct to you the American consumer. I had been once before during a similar/same promo period a few months ago and got a box of 24 Jaffa Cakes for $3; and so armed with that memory of value and quality I decided to take the plunge on a $1.79 tin of Deutsche Küche Herring Fillets in Pineapple Curry Sauce, 7.05 oz.
“I don’t know why but it seems like it could be good,” I thought to myself.
I popped the can, and heated up the saucy fish fillets (whole, with a thin skin on one side) in a pan on the stove. The fillets remained firm in the can. My deepest fears were the twin spectres of mush and odor, neither of which presented themselves. I added some togarashi and dried parsley, colored sprinkles are the highest value food additives, and salt. I ate it alongside some seasoned-vinegar’d rice.
Tasted pretty good.
Think I’ll get a couple more cans. They also offer a Mango + Green Peppercorn variant.
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I’ve never had hot pickled herring, always cold straight from the jar/can. reckon you could craft this yourself with any curry sauce put over some chopped chunks of rollmop on a rye bread (traditional style) (breakfast)
I miss Hamburg hotel continental breakfasts
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I love tinned fish. Sardines tinned in olive oil, spread on a triscuit are divine.
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There’s a place a few blocks from us called American Sardine Bar that obviously has several sardine centered menu items, like sliders. Something tells me you’d love it
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i liked when people made fun of me for eating tinned sardines in oil from the corner store because it was 1-3 dollars for protein. now they’re a boutique item and i cant fuckin handle it
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Yeah and all the tinned fish everyone’s into is insanely costly.
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i have an emerging conspiracy theory that the fishing industry (“Big Tuna”) is in the midst of a major campaign to attract a larger market, sustained mostly by the fact that for some reason there are an unusual number of billboards for like, regular generic seeming canned tuna around Edmonton that drive me crazy. And a completely absurd and honestly repugnant ad for a tuna melt sold by Booster Juice (Canada’s equivalent of Jamba Juice but… also sells tuna melts?)
gaze at your own risk
OK in JPEG form it is not that bad but trust me as a billboard this is truly abject. Plus I feel like the graphic design of the logo draws your attention to the slimy qualities of the sandwich even if the picture doesn’t fully do the job for you
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i love tuna id eat the fuck out of that
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i really struggle with canned tuna
very, very rarely i will much it straight from can with a bit of pepper
otherwise though
im going to get a can of tuna and just put mayo and mustard and relish in it and hten put that on some bread
Big Tuna is probably trying to be like WE CAN BE AN OVERPRICED CANNED FISH TOO!!! DONT LEAVE US BEHIND
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i had tuna salad for lunch. lemon juice, mayo, sage, tuna. should have put mustard on it
i love all false salads (potato, pasta, egg, tuna, chicken) but only if the crunchy parts are so small they don’t register
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raw tuna though, that’s the realest deal
negitoro i could probably eat daily
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oh yeah gimmie that fatty fatty tuna
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big tuna is scheming! they are always up to something!!!
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all tuna is kind of big tbh
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yeah that’s little b (not nefarious, not the villian of u u’s billboards) big
Big (the cat’s) Tuna
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I like my tuna salad with lemon juice and parsley. Canned tuna, sardines, and anchovies are great. It took me a long time to get here.
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