Monday, September 26, 2011

Hooray for sardines!

It's great to see a previously unsung Bay of Fundy food product finally getting it's due: sardines! Now that Omega-3s and foods with essential fatty acids are popular, sardines are becoming the trendy new health food.

Here around the Bay of Fundy we've been eating canned sardines for over 100 years - thanks to really good producers like Brunswick sardines. The Connors brothers in Black's Harbour, New Brunswick, have been canning seafood since 1889.

The company still thrives: stocking not only the shelves of all Canadian grocery stores but supplying sardines and other fishy stuff to over 40 countries.

A love of sardines has become the unofficial way of screening compatibility for a new staff in our office. We were worried about the new chick from Alberta last year but, no fear, she arrived on Day 2 with mustard sardines in her lunch!

3 comments:

E. Blair said...

Hello! I am happy to find such a wonderful, informative blog. I am a musician and I'm going to be traveling to the northeast coast of N. America and am trying to find the right place to go to. Specifically I would like to draw and photograph tidepools for my album. Do you know about whether there are many on the Bay of Fundy (I'd imagine so, but I don't know much about them actually) or if not, where I might find them? I'd so appreciate any help. Cheers! Elisabeth - ecblair@gmail.com

Christopher Mackay said...

Well, Terri, looks like I won't be joining your staff anytime soon. Choleena, on the other hand, loves her canned sardines.

I make her leave the room when she's eating them. :-)

Terri McCulloch said...

haha - I always knew I liked that gal!!