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Esteemed Contributor
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Registered: ‎11-15-2011

Re: How do you eat sardines?

Drain.  Put half the sardine on a Saltine, top with ketchup!

Respected Contributor
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Registered: ‎03-12-2010

Re: How do you eat sardines?

I try to eat them every once in a few years.  I just can't handle the fishy smell.  It is too strong.  I don't mind anchovies on pizza or in tomato sauce, but the smell straight from the can I just can't handle.  I also think it is a generation thing like kippers or other smoked fish.  I can handle canned tuna and salmon, but not smoke mackerel or sardnies.

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Registered: ‎06-27-2017

Re: How do you eat sardines?

I crush it and add chopped onions and black pepper and add to saltines. I use mostly the sardines packed in olive oil though I preferred the sardines packed in tomato sauce which is hard to find. 

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Registered: ‎03-14-2010

Re: How do you eat sardines?

I can't get past the way the look laying there in their little can (coffin.)

 

When I was in elementary school there was a kid who used to bring them for lunch.  It was so gross.  His mother put them in a sandwich with nothing else, and I always thought they looked like they were sleeping in bed.  This was at a time when you were assigned a lunch table, so I couldn't get away.  Gag...