sardines - bad super food experience :( not for the squeamish
A little while ago, I bought a can of sardines in mustard sauce. Tonight, I wanted a little something healthy to eat. So I decided to eat some sardines with whole wheat crackers. I had never eaten sardines before. I open the can, it doesn't look too bad - little fish parts, that smush up easily. I'm like great, I will smush it up and eat it on crackers.
I take 4 crackers and about half the sardines on a plate to the living room where I'm reading a great book. I start eating and it's pretty good, there are a few little bones, but nothing too crazy. Then, I see it - a spine. A little plasticky-looking fish spine. Ugh, I push it to the side of the plate. I know that fish have spines OF COURSE (and turkeys and chicken etc etc) but it is just so gross. Then, I find another one and my stomach starts to feel kind of weird. I push both spines over and keep eating, it tastes okay.
Don't keep reading if you're squeamish!
I started to retch and ended up losing all the sardines and crackers I had eaten. I feel like such a wuss, I thought I had a cast-iron stomach, I have eaten some weird stuff in my travels to Asia (like a chicken foot), I'm not sure what it is about 2 tiny fake looking fish spines that made me completely lose it.
Sad to know that I can cross one super food off my list forever!
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