sardines

     

Sarines, or pilchards, are a group of several types of small, oily fish related to herrings, family Clupeidae. Sardines were named after the island of Sardinia, where they were once in abundance.

Trivia about sardines

  • Hold on to your wallet if you're ever "packed in like" these small herring relatives
  • Don't discard the liquid that comes in a tin of these members of the herring family; it's "kitty champagne"!
  • These fish named for an island in the Mediterranean are high in calcium --if you eat their tiny bones
  • At a sushi bar order iwashi to see how many of these fish you can pack away
  • In this "fishy" game, a reverse hide & seek, the "it" hides, & each person who finds him squeezes into the hiding spot

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