Conservas de Cambadas Small Sardines in Olive Oil

Opening new tins is so fun! I've had this tin for a while, it's packaging announces that these are special fishies, and they live up to the billing! I'm a sucker for small sardines, I like the little ones, the skin to fish ratio, the tiny undetectable bones are my jam. These take tiny as far as I've seen it done, there's 20 fish in the tin arranged nicely, all perfect. They're firm enough to stay in tact coming out of the tin with chopsticks. The flavor is very mild, they seem to barely be there and pretty much melt into your mouth with a clean hint of oily umami. I put these on some toast with mayo, whole grain mustard, lettuce, tomato and avocado and drizzled the nice light and buttery tin oil over them. The whole thing just kind of turned into a salad as these little fishes were not playing nice on the plate, they were everywhere and I was just snacking bites of ingredients with my fingers, so maybe a downside to the little ones but still delicious! I'll definitely get these again and would highly recommend these as a gateway fish to those that aren't sure where to start, they're just so small and light and barely there that it's hard to imagine anyone being put off by them in any way.