Canned Tuna

[Jenise]

Not sure I've ever eaten canned mackerel, Bill, but as a kid I loved canned "kippers". I also loved sardines back then--strange, I was a kid who hated fish but I did like canned fish of all types. Anyway, 'kippers' is a very English thing so you can probably answer the question: what exactly ARE kippers? I was thinking they were in the herring family, but I could be wrong.

Yup - kippered or smoked and brined herrings beloved of the English for breakfast.

British boy's schools used to play football games (which they call soccer) for the wager of a bunch of these cured fish to be used by the winners for the next day's breakfast, hence the term "Win one for the kipper!"..........

As Michael B noted, I've really, really enjoyed the Wild Planet tunas.... kinda expensive, but when you open a can (I prefer the lightly salted Albacore) you can really taste the tuna flavor. It is similar to the ones Karen had mentioned (west coast guys who can their own caught tuna).

We're lucky to have two sources of this in town, and occasionally they go on sale... I usually stock up.

And, yes, supposedly troll-caught and they use the smaller tuna so supposed to have a lot less mercury in it. Dolphin-safe of course.

I've built up a list of several west coast fishers/canners who do similar and when I'm flush with some cash, I plan to order directly from a source.

This is one list that has a bunch of small folk who fish tuna and offer their products for sale:

http://www.albatuna.com/Sources/Canned.htm

Kinda fun just to read through some of the websites and their products.

Thanks,
Mike

That was a fun read. Three of the places were near my hometown of Eureka and we have been to two of them. I will certainly keep this list for our next jaunt to the Pacific Northwest area. Thanks!

I finally opened a can of the AS do MAR tuna I ordered, and love it. The can is packed full of the buttery tuna, in a very nice olive oil. I made a tuna salad mix for stuffing a couple of tomatoes for our lunch today. The ingredients list says, tonno, olio di oliva, sale. It is a product of Genova Italia. I did find Wild Planet that someone mentioned here and will try that next. While the Trader Joe's tuna in oil is very good, this is special. Look for it in your area, you might get lucky.