Pinhais Spiced Sardines in Tomato Sauce

Description

Ingredients: Sardines (Sardina pilchardus), tomato sauce (tomato pulp, olive oil, cloves, black pepper, laurel), cucumber, chilli, carrot, salt.

Check out the Mouth Full of Sardines blog post about Pinhais.

The terms “spiced” and “spicy” are used pretty much interchangeably in the tinned fish world, to mean two different things: with a hot pepper (or hot pepper flavor), and with cloves/bay/carrot/hot pepper. There are many examples of both terms being used to mean both things.

We are so frustrated by how widespread this confusing inconsistent usage is that we’ve gone through our entire product line to correct the incorrect ones such that our description of “spiced” or “spicy” will always indicate which it really is, regardless of the packaging. “Spicy” = with hot pepper flavor. “Spiced” = with the cloves/bay/carrot/hot pepper flavors.