Monday, February 11, 2019

Goldilocks Goes Fishin' Again

You might recall my quest(s) to find the perfect sardine. Not even the perfect sardine. I'd settle for a palatable sardine. My current brand had become TOO BIG. But I couldn't be happy with what I had. The taste was great. Good enough. Just right. But no, I had to go and complain, and the very next tin of sardines that I opened were different! Smaller, and more watery! Not enough mustard!

Woe was me. I thought I might actually have to sample the sardines from Country Mart, rather than my usual staples from Save A Lot. But a funny thing happened as I walked by the sardines in Save A Lot on my next shopping trip. I looked. Just to see if the dates were the same as the two tins I had left at home. The ones I didn't like. And do you know what I found?

DIFFERENT SARDINES!


Beach Cliff instead of PortSide! Of course I bought two tins. I'd taken a sardine break for a few days, having my old lunch of Chicken Bacon Ranch Pinwheels instead. But THEY had changed, too. So I went back to try my sardines on Sunday.


They're the big ones again. Three to a tin. But lots of mustard, and the same mustard taste as the previous brand. Not watery. So I give them two thumbs up. Since I only have two thumbs.

Let the record show that I also bought two tins of sardines in oil. I might try one of them next...
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6 comments:

  1. Kathy's KlotheslineFebruary 11, 2019 at 4:16 PM

    So happy for you and your taste buds!

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  2. Hillbilly MomFebruary 11, 2019 at 8:54 PM

    Kathy,
    They were having a party in my mouth!

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  3. RiverFebruary 12, 2019 at 2:15 AM

    Yay for decent sardines with the right amount of mustard. Remember when I said I'd buy some here for comparison purposes? I haven't done that yet and probably won't. I need to save my pennies.

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  4. Hillbilly MomFebruary 12, 2019 at 10:52 AM

    River,
    My excitement was short-lived, because yesterday in Save A Lot, I saw that the old PortSide brand was back! It looked like they were running out, only one box, partly full. We'll see what happens after "truck day" on Thursday.

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  5. RiverFebruary 12, 2019 at 5:19 PM

    Perhaps the "new" box of PortSide is what remains of the original stock and the BeachCliff is what will be replacing them from now on.

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  6. Hillbilly MomFebruary 12, 2019 at 10:40 PM

    River,
    That's what I was thinking. Otherwise, why would there have been a whole box of the BeachCliff sardines when I bought them? And furthermore, it looks like Save A Lot sells many more sardines than I imagined!

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