barney's Cheap Eatin' Thread

I’ll have to try these .88 cent ones, but I’ll have to convince myself to break my vow to never go back unless Walmart is the only option.

 

I had them all in the cstore biz and for the $ I liked the Mrs Freshley’s about as well as any but the old school hostess zingers were hard to beat.

 

We used to have a Discount Grocery store in the neighborhood. Closed Now. Out of date stuff, some vegetables a little frozen meat that had never been to a store, just frozen from the wholesaler.
He had candy bars and cakes for a Quarter. I would check regularly and I bought every Yeller Zinger I could get my hands on. Its hard to pay $1.79 after getting them for a Quarter for years.

 

Here it goes folks. Got home and went for the sardines! Started with the tin of Wild planet (setting the baseline). Opening the lid brought small disappointment. They definitely weren’t as picturesque as others but we’re focused on taste right? I did enjoy them, they have a simple, clean fresh taste. I thought to myself I need Something to compare these to and went for the biggest wildcard of them all, The crazy Chinese or Japanese labeled sardines I got from the Asian market. I knew there was a great risk of vomiting but Proceeded to open the tin.... and that’s when my world got turned upside down. Folks I must say I have eaten the most delicious sardines in my personal experience right here tonight and pretty sure it’s ruined the rest of the contenders if we go outside of the basic olive oil Category. These were a sweet soy sauce base and melted like butter in my mouth.

I will still go on to compare the more common sardines that are available at most grocery stores but the next time I am in Lexington I’m gonna buy them out.

 

Gotta say, and I've eat alot of the Wild Planet sardines, you got the ugly ducklings of the bunch haha. Not that it much matters

 

I’d order those Asian ones online but I wouldn’t know where to begin lol, not an English word on that can I can see.

 

Found them but they have a large shipping cost.

https://www.igourmet.com/shoppe/pro...MIkoyFpsmE5wIVSJyzCh3hrgnzEAkYDCABEgLD-vD_BwE

Walmart cheap

https://www.walmart.com/ip/Nissui-Canned-Sardine-in-Sweet-Soy-Sauce-3-52-oz-3-Pack/937012970

Amazon expensive

https://www.amazon.com/Nissui-Iwashi-Canned-Sardines-Ajitsuke/dp/B013H9H364

 

Well yall got me in a sardine kick bad. Went to walmart to try the ones Barney ranked a 9 but they didn't have any great value brand Had several brands and I was wanting the wild planet ones but found a discounted one for yet $0.50 again. Got two cans to try. They weren't near as good as the wild planet ones and weren't as appealing(still had fins on em and bones were all little tuff) I will say for the price I am gonna go back and get the 8 or so cans they had left.

 

On second thought after reading the warning on the bottom of the can I may just leave em on the shelf at walmart.