I like tuna and salmon.  Sardines are the worst, even without the can.

1 hour ago, Jigfishn10 said:

Clams for chowder. 
Tunafish in water, straight up.

Can’t for the life of me eat sardines 

I catch plenty of mackerel fresh all summer. Usually used as bait though. So no canned.

Ever cook the mackerel? Seems like my brother caught a cero mackerel in FLA once that we cooked and was tasty. But we had a variety of fish and I couldn’t keep it all straight 

Funny seeing this thread... I took a long look at canned mackerel in the grocery store this week, wondering what it was like.  I've never tried it.

 

I love tuna, sardines, kippered herring, pickled herring, etc. etc.  As a matter of fact, I love pretty much everything.  ?

I definitely like a good tuna and onion sandwich from canned tuna and canned anchovies added to a Caesar salad. Smoked oysters are tasty, sardines and crackers aren’t bad depending on the amount of available beer.

These get farmed and canned in the good ole USA for export.  Too bad the fishery off the coast crashed….

Anchovies!   I love them on pizza but hate paying so much for a tiny two ounce tin of them.  A restaurant supply company moved into our town and I now buy a TWO POUND tin of anchovies for less than twenty bucks.  Pretty much unlimited life the refrigerator.

 

My home-made pizzas are now covered in anchovies!  ?

11 hours ago, TnRiver46 said:

Ever cook the mackerel? Seems like my brother caught a cero mackerel in FLA once that we cooked and was tasty. But we had a variety of fish and I couldn’t keep it all straight 

Atlantic Mackerel is an oily fish and very nutritious. People either love it or hate it. I’m not in the hate crowd and will eat it. Just a couple times a season. 
 

Not bad in a fish or seafood chowder. 
 

10 hours ago, desmobob said:

Anchovies!   I love them on pizza but hate paying so much for a tiny two ounce tin of them.  A restaurant supply company moved into our town and I now buy a TWO POUND tin of anchovies for less than twenty bucks.  Pretty much unlimited life the refrigerator.

 

My home-made pizzas are now covered in anchovies!  ?

Anchovies are an acquired taste for sure. I’ll send you mine.  

I’ve never seen an anchovy in person, I always thought it was a joke when I was little that people would put fish on pizza 

It’s a star ingredient in Caesar salad dressing

I live in a small town with only a few pizza joints.  When one of them had first opened, I called to order a pizza to go and included anchovies as one of the toppings.  The girl who was working that night told me if I wanted anchovies on my pizza, I'd have to go there and put them on myself, because she wasn't touching those gross things.  ?  (That place has since gone out of business.)

 

Like fish oil, anchovies can be a great "secret ingredient" in lots of recipes.

 

 

8 minutes ago, desmobob said:

 

Like fish oil, anchovies can be a great "secret ingredient" in lots of recipes.

I put a little Thai fish sauce in a lot of the food I cook. Adds such a great savory flavor. But holy hell, do not smell the stuff before putting it in the food! 

1 minute ago, Jar11591 said:

I put a little Thai fish sauce in a lot of the food I cook. Adds such a great savory flavor. But holy hell, do not smell the stuff before putting it in the food! 

I "discovered" fish sauce recently and now use it often.  I also learned that it is a lot like balsamic vinegar as far as quality/taste goes...  there is the cheap stuff, which is "OK" and the good stuff, which is "Great!"    

I’ve eaten my share of canned tuna both straight out of the can, both water and oil, or made into tuna salad.  The absolute best I ever had was when I was detailed to an area of St Louis (Clayton) and there was a place called The Fatted Calf and they had the absolute best tuna steak sandwiches I have ever eaten.  I’ve had salmon out of the can but the amount of bones even though they are soft creeps me out.  I’ve eaten my share of carp sandwiches from Joe Tess restaurant in Omaha.  Bottom line, I do prefer my fish fresh.  Well, except for sushi, I do love me some good sushi.?

4 hours ago, TOXIC said:

Bottom line, I do prefer my fish fresh.  Well, except for sushi, I do love me some good sushi.?

 

You prefer your sushi NOT to be fresh?   ?    ?

1 hour ago, desmobob said:

 

You prefer your sushi NOT to be fresh?   ?    ?

Gas station sushi! 

7 hours ago, BrianMDTX said:

Gas station sushi! 

Ooh man now your talking good eats! Couple rolls of that and I dare you to gamble on a fart.

On 1/28/2023 at 2:19 PM, desmobob said:

 

You prefer your sushi NOT to be fresh?   ?    ?

Can’t get much fresher is my point.?

Canned sardines 2-3 times a week for the off the charts nutritional benefits, not necessarily because I love them; they have the highest concentration of omega3's and the lowest mercury levels of almost anything that swims. And as a bonus for you societal fringe dwellers they'll give you a severe case of the incredible human repelling superpower known as fish breath.