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How Portuguese Sardines Turned Me Into a Tinned Fish Evangelist
I was not a sardine person until I saw the tins
When you were a kid trying to gross out your friends you probably said: “What if someone made you eat anchovies and sardines!?”
Your friends likely replied: “Ewwwwww!”
But how could anything stored in such beautiful tins be bad?
Working through my tuna fish trauma
One of my earliest daycare memories is crying over a tuna fish sandwich. It probably came from a can that was as bland in taste as it was in aesthetics.
The daycare staff likely meant well — they wanted us to get some omega-3 fatty acids — but I wasn’t having it, and it smelled gross.
We have evolved since then, right? We are so much wiser and our palettes are so much more refined. We know how to cook mushrooms properly. We know why European flour is so much more digestible. We eat Brussels sprouts by choice.
Maybe we have worked in Michelin star restaurants, or at least pretended at home.
Recently, I dug up some drawings from when I was a kid; it looks like my favorite foods were hotdogs and watermelon. Like I said, we have evolved.
