Canned Fish / Sardines

I've heard that sustromming is absolutely vile.

it is. if you ever get some, seriously, don't even think of opening it indoors. if you've no other choice, open it under water. take a bowl, or fill up your sink. and prepare yourself.
only ever tried it once, taste was meh imho, then again the smell is so pungent I just couldn't concentrate on the taste at all.
if you want more scandinavian fishy strangeness, look for lutefisk, its white fish (like cod) but aged in a way it becomes like jelly.

have seen this in stores, but never tried that one.
you're swiss, right? then they might have picrelated. it's hot, not as vinegar-y as other brand of ajika I've had, but never as good as homemade, no matter what the label claims.

Well shit, I've had sardines in olive oil sitting in the cupboard and I've never tried it before. I'm going to do it tomorrow. Do you just eat it with crackers and hot sauce?

WAIT! there's a better way.(although butter, white bread is perfectly good and tasty, too)
take some baguette slices (or ciabatta, whatever), put aioli on it, then a moderately thin slice of tomato, then two sprots, then put some cheese on top. repeat for more than one tiny sandwich, then put them in the oven until the cheese's molten. serve at room temperature.

Nah man I'm in the States, Southeastern US. I didn't find the ajvar vinegary, it was on the sweet side actually. Really good on French bread. I want to try it on a burger now.

This sounds delicious. I can eat them straight out the tin with a little pepper. They are the best with crusty bread though.

>I didn't find the ajvar vinegary
nono, the ajvar wouldn't be, I meant the ajika - if ajvar is more like a general paprika-based ragout, the ajika is your salsa ragou, I guess? just that *some* of the brands in stores put way too much vinegar in.
true. white bread isn't good for a lot of things in my books, certainly not as breakfast goes, but for canned fish it's perfect. it soaks up the oil or sauce... in my student days 2 cans of fish and half a ciabatta were a full meal.

getting into canned mackerel lately. prefer the firm meatier texture to the relative mushiness of sardines and tuna

I agree 100%

Try kippers man, they're fucking awesome. Basically just a smoked hering split down lengthwise.
Danes fucking love hering, think the brits got em' too tho.