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Where can't you find them? All of my local supermarkets in the US have a million cans of sardines from a dozen different brands each, ranging from like $1.50/c
by BugsJustFindMe 2mo ago
Where can't you find them?
All of my local supermarkets in the US have a million cans of sardines from a dozen different brands each, ranging from like $1.50/can for e.g. Goya in soybean oil[0] to like $7/can for very fancy ones, with the average around $4.50/can for ones in olive oil. They're not gone, just more expensive than last year for nice ones.
[0] - sardines come packed in your choice of water, soybean oil, olive oil, extra virgin olive oil, tomato sauce, or louisiana-style hot sauce with additional selection choices of containing herbs or hot peppers or olives, and olive oil ones always cost more than water or soybean oil ones for obvious reasons
- johnnyApplePRNG 2mo agoYea this article is trash. I can find canned sardines anywhere in Canada here right now. They're in stock on Amazon.ca for goodness sake.
- infamouscow 2mo agoTFA explains why sardines sourced from around USA, Spain, Portugal, and Morocco are harder to come by. Where are your sardines be sourced?
- BugsJustFindMe 2mo agoLooking in my cupboard right now: Goya: Spain Bela: Portugal Crown Prince: Morocco Bar Harbor: Latvia Brunswick: Latvia King Oscar: Norway
- markdown 2mo agoThis is bizarre to me. Do you always shop this way? Personally I find a favourite brand and stick with it. There isn't a single product I can think of where I'll buy the same thing from multiple brands.
- BugsJustFindMe 2mo ago> "Personally I find a favourite brand and stick with it." Two responses: 1) And by what process exactly do you find a favorite? Clairvoyance? 2) If you can have a favorite, then the different brands must have different qualities. And if different brands have different qualities, then they will be differently good for different uses. > "There isn't a single product I can think of where I'll buy the same thing from multiple brands." They aren't the same thing. They're differently-prepared multi-ingredient products. They're often not even the same species of fish, because "sardine" is a general category not a species.
- nickserv 2mo ago> There isn't a single product I can think of where I'll buy the same thing from multiple brands. Weird, I'm the complete opposite. There's no product I can think of where I didn't buy different brands, if anything just to compare.
- vel0city 2mo agoSo once you've decided on a particular brand and variety of chips you only ever buy that single brand and variety of chips, never branching out to try different things? Never get an urge for wavy chips instead of traditional, or maybe tortilla chips the next time, maybe even every now and then cheese curls? I don't even like Sardines but I definitely understand there's a ton of variety in flavors and packing styles and even the species of fish can be a little different.
- Hugsbox 2mo agoSome people would happily eat the same thing for breakfast, dinner, and supper every single day for the rest of their lives. I don't necessarily understand it, but I've met plenty of people like that.
- throwaway2037 2mo agoThis is a cool reply. Are you a sardine fanatic? Do you many different brands for the different flavours?
- BugsJustFindMe 2mo agoI enjoy them and see that they come in many variations. I'm not sure whether that makes me a fanatic or just discerning.
- ljf 2mo agoIntrigued, I checked my cupboard for the brands we have: * Alva (from Sainsburys) - 75p - Sardina pilchardus - Packed in Morocco, caught in Eastern Atlantic Ocean * 'The Fishmonger' (from Lidl) - 59p - Sardina pilchardus - Packed in Morocco, caught in Eastern Central Atlantic * Kingfisher (from Lidl) - 49p - Sardina pilchardus - Packed in Morocco, caught in Central Eastern Atlantic
- embwbam 2mo agoWhere are you? I am in BC and can’t find them in grocery stores
- johnnyApplePRNG 2mo agoYou don't have Amazon in BC?
- markdown 2mo agoNo, there aren't any Amazon grocery stores in BC.
- tomjakubowski 2mo agoShelf-stable foodstuffs like canned sardines can be ordered for delivery from the regular Amazon, the same side of their site you might order a book or a laptop from, outside of their newer grocery retail channels.
- AstroNutt 2mo agoI went to my local grocery store (small West Texas town)last week and bought the last 6 remaining cans. I've never once seen the sardine shelf empty until last week.
- carabiner 2mo agoYeah exactly. I've loaded up from tj's on sardines for many years and they were always fully stocked, until this year.
- Hugsbox 2mo agoI'm in Nova Scotia, and tinned fish is still absolutely everywhere, and still dirt cheap.
- cwnyth 2mo agoI didn't know that Amazon.ca was a supermarket with shelves. TIL.
- justin66 2mo ago> They're in stock on Amazon.ca for goodness sake. I'd expect extremely high prices buying them this way.
- tomjakubowski 2mo agoHere in the US, on the regular retail side of Amazon, I see a twelve pack of 3.75oz canned sardines in water, Beach Cliff brand, for $18.96, or $0.42/oz. I don't buy sardines but this seems not terribly out of line with prices I see at Walmart and Target, maybe a 20-25% premium. A local fancy grocery store has sardines in water from Chicken of the Sea at $0.58/oz.
- polanyer 2mo agoExactly. I literally bought some yesterday in the USA. I can go buy some right now in 10 minutes. I just wish I had a way to block all these bullshit news stories from ever crossing my eyes. Socializing has become people telling each other bullshit news stories that have almost nothing to do with reality.
- carabiner 2mo agoIn US I haven't seen them for months at Trader Joe's. Usually they stock 3 different kinds.
- rootusrootus 2mo agoCould be regional, or something specific to TJs. My local Fred Meyer in Oregon has plenty of availability right now. Though the prices are a little bit inflated.
- pimlottc 2mo agoI literally just left a Trader Joe’s and I couldn’t find a single tin
- ajsnigrutin 2mo agoSame here in slovenia, from fancy one to cheap store brand ones. No fads here
- leoc 2mo agoPlenty in Ireland as well. The craze certainly seems to be more subdued here, though some of the posh delis in Dublin, in particular, seem to be riding the wave. ( https://www.reddit.com/r/CannedSardines/comments/1o9dhlg/any_suggestions_dublin_ireland/ https://www.reddit.com/r/CannedSardines/comments/1o9dhlg/any... , for any Dublin tin-hunters.)
- hackshack 2mo agoCanned fish are tiny now compared to 5 years ago. They shrank to bait size.
- BugsJustFindMe 2mo agoI don't think they're any smaller now than they were before. You may be comparing different species of fish that are all called "sardines".
- BrtByte 2mo agoWhich makes me wonder how geographically uneven this "shortage" actually is
- giardini 2mo agoPerhaps the Ukrainian conflict affects this? After all, who wants to be fishing all alone in the ocean when a half-dozen drones show up?
- ssl-3 2mo agoI can't find what I want for sardines in Ohio. What I want is non-premium-brand, not-Chinese sardines -- in mustard sauce. These brands can vary: Chicken of the Sea, Beach Cliff, and whatever the house brands of stores like Wal-Mart and Aldi are come to mind immediately. I adore these as a relatively inexpensive, healthy, and tasty shelf-stable snack -- not as luxury items. I will pay what I must, but I do not wish to spend very much money on them. What I find instead are sardines in water, oil, and only rarely in tepid hot sauce. The more expensive or plainly-flavored they are, the more likely they are to be present. The spots for all of the inexpensive sardines on the shelves are lacking, and the spots for every brand of mustard sardines are resolutely empty at every store I visit. The Kroger near my house has dozens of cans of reasonably-inexpensive sardines, but they're all in oil. The rest is picked clean like a covid-era toilet paper aisle. It has been this way for months. It is not a hallucination, and I am not holding it wrong. I've been an avid consumer of mustard sardines for many decades. I am not vision-impaired. :) Things are such that I take time to visit far-flung grocery stores when I travel regionally for work and also troll on Instacart looking for hits that will help me in the search of mustard sardines. It's been a nearly-complete non-starter; I've found only a couple of tins in the past few months. [*]: As an unreferenced footnote, I'd like to preemptively note that I'm very particularly disinterested in hearing suggestions for other varieties of foods to eat instead. I am not in need of assistance, and this report of my own observations is not a request for help. There is nothing that can be added here that will change my proclivities on this matter, and there are no words that can magically restore mustard sardines to store shelves near me. I'd like to thank everyone in advance for understanding that neither my tastes for foods nor my regional market for sardines are things that can be controlled or adjusted by a comment on HN.
- throwaway2037 2mo ago> not-Chinese sardines What is better about Morrocan vs Chinese packed sardines? Also when prices are so low you are eating European sprats (Sprattus sprattus) or herring (Clupea harengus), not true sardines.
- cucumber3732842 2mo ago