“Sardine fillets” but it’s actually pure herring. Wtf is this
How on earth is this legal? (Also, these are distrubted by Bumble Bee)
by The-Jake
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clearliquidclearjar
>The terms sardine and pilchard are not precise, and what is meant depends on the region. The United Kingdom’s Sea Fish Industry Authority, for example, classifies sardines as young pilchards. One criterion suggests fish shorter in length than 6 inches (15 cm) are sardines, and larger ones pilchards. The FAO/WHO Codex standard for canned sardines cites 12 species in the Order of Clupeiformes that may be classed as sardines, including Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus), and brisling sardine (Sprattus sprattus); FishBase, a comprehensive database of information about fish, calls at least six species just ‘pilchard’, over a dozen just ‘sardine’, and many more with both those two basic names qualified by various adjectives
Icy-Conclusion-3500
Legal in the US and Canada and probably elsewhere. “Sardine” is a collection of many species.
findYourOkra
These are a Canadian brand. Because sardine is a generic term and to the best of my knowledge true pilchards are not found off the coast of Canada, the term is used for a species of herring, Clupea harengus.
spicy-acorn
But, how did it taste nonetheless ?
Signal-Coast-314
Omg thanks for the heads up
huge43
They are delicious whatever they are. $1.87 at Walmart, the mustard and dill fuckin slap.
TheRealSirTobyBelch
Yeah Brunswick are not good. Not real sardines. Although their kippers are decent. Because kippers are supposed to be herring.
Careful_Put8259
All Canadian “sardines” are herring.
kabekew
Sardines are younger, smaller Herring, and Kippers are fatter Herring that are smoked. But all part of the same family as I understand it, with variations around the world depending where they’re caught.
SeanOfTheDead1313
Cool, ain’t it? I lived off these until I discovered mackerel and salmon.
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>The terms sardine and pilchard are not precise, and what is meant depends on the region. The United Kingdom’s Sea Fish Industry Authority, for example, classifies sardines as young pilchards. One criterion suggests fish shorter in length than 6 inches (15 cm) are sardines, and larger ones pilchards. The FAO/WHO Codex standard for canned sardines cites 12 species in the Order of Clupeiformes that may be classed as sardines, including Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus), and brisling sardine (Sprattus sprattus); FishBase, a comprehensive database of information about fish, calls at least six species just ‘pilchard’, over a dozen just ‘sardine’, and many more with both those two basic names qualified by various adjectives
Legal in the US and Canada and probably elsewhere. “Sardine” is a collection of many species.
These are a Canadian brand. Because sardine is a generic term and to the best of my knowledge true pilchards are not found off the coast of Canada, the term is used for a species of herring, Clupea harengus.
But, how did it taste nonetheless ?
Omg thanks for the heads up
They are delicious whatever they are. $1.87 at Walmart, the mustard and dill fuckin slap.
Yeah Brunswick are not good. Not real sardines. Although their kippers are decent. Because kippers are supposed to be herring.
All Canadian “sardines” are herring.
Sardines are younger, smaller Herring, and Kippers are fatter Herring that are smoked. But all part of the same family as I understand it, with variations around the world depending where they’re caught.
Cool, ain’t it? I lived off these until I discovered mackerel and salmon.