Here in Australia, I feel like tuna is by far the most popular.

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  1. Extremely common.
    I feel that it’s like our “emergency” food. Don’t feel like cooking? Just open one or two cans mix it with rice from the day before or some canned beans and your good to go.
    It won’t be no gourmet shit, but you can have a pretty healthy meal for not much.

  2. You could say that. Although makrell in tomato sauce is by far the most common. Also smoked cod roe.

  4. It’s not not a thing, but for instance canned herring would be considered weird as hell.

  5. Canned mackerel and tomato sauce is an [extremely common topping on Rye bread](https://www.google.com/search?q=makrelmad&tbm=isch&ved=2ahUKEwiZpPuw6s35AhXlkP0HHfPjAo8Q2-cCegQIABAA&oq=makrelmad&gs_lcp=CgNpbWcQAzIFCAAQgAQyBAgAEB4yBggAEB4QBTIECAAQGDoECCMQJzoECAAQQ1CoCFisDmDFD2gAcAB4AIABXogB5QaSAQIxMJgBAKABAaoBC2d3cy13aXotaW1nwAEB&sclient=img&ei=_9j8YtmoF-Wh9u8P88eL-Ag&bih=1057&biw=1920&safe=active). Especially among children and prime ministers.

  6. Tuna is very common, but that’s also pretty much the only canned fish widely available. It’s popular with students and people who work out a lot.

  7. I try to avoid it. Recently read a medical report that seafood and fish have been increasing in terms of heavy-metal contamination. Tuna has very high mercury levels which is why pregnant women are banned from eating Tuna until they have given birth.

    I assume things look better if it’s cultured fish. But wild fish right from the ocean is getting more and more contaminated.

  8. Yup, definitely..

    I think sardines are still the most popular, but tuna is close.. Mackerel is common too…

  9. Yeah, you can buy canned tuna almost everywhere. I like to open the can, scrub out all of it into the dish, mix with ketchup and eat that with slices of bread with butter. Easy, quick and tasty.

  10. Certainly very common, often used for quick and cheap lunches (e.g. by students), mackerel and anchovies are also easy to find in tins.

  12. Tuna is really common, but we also have mackerel, sardines and salmon.

    It’s generally called tinned here rather than canned.

  13. Australian living in Lithuania.

    Here its super seasonal. There is one holiday that everyone eats Silke or herring. On and in everything. And then the rest of the year none of my friends or family eat it. You can easily find canned tuna. And we have eaten it sometimes but it seems not as much eaten like I would in australia. Like in australia it was constantly lunches and sammies and salads. not so much here.

  14. Yes – tuna, salmon, sardines, pilchards, mackerel, anchovies… Tinned fish is cheap-ish, lasts forever, doesn’t need cooking but you can cook it if you want, and is very good for you because it’s all oily fish.

  15. We eat[pickled herring](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickled_herring) a lot, I would say that almost like canned tuna, we buy them in glass jars.

    Also when I was young, buying blocks of frozen blocks cod was the go to fish to buy for cheap.

    Later turned out that cod from the Baltic Sea is like eating a spoon of all toxic humans ever have made.

  16. In any Swedish supermarket you may find:

    * Canned tuna, in oil or water.

    * Canned sardines.

    * Canned “anchovies” (which is confusing since it in Sweden isn’t anchovies, but sprat with a specific seasoning).

    * Canned anchovies (which in Sweden is sold under the name *sardeller*).

    * Canned mackerel in tomato sauce.

    * (Not canned, but in glass jars) [Pickled herring](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pickled_herring) bits, with a large selection of flavors; mustard, dill, onion, garlic, lime, tomato, etc… May find 10-15 different flavors from the same manufacturer.

    * Canned [*surströmming*](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surstr%C3%B6mming), which is the infamous fermented herring. Known as one of the smelliest foods in the world, but actually quite taste if prepared right.

    * Canned [fishballs](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fish_ball#Northern_Europe) in either bouillon, dill sauce, lobster sauce or shrimp sauce.
    Traditionally made from cod (or cod-like fishes), but salmon is also available.

    —

    The most commonly eaten ones are pickled herring, and tuna, where the herring is usually (but not exclusively) eaten around the holidays, while tuna is eaten whenever.

    Anchovies, “anchovies” and sardines are usually just part of one or a couple of dishes that are seldomly eaten.

    Mackerel in tomato sauce is not too uncommon as a sandwich spread, but not super common either.

    Fishballs is a convenient emergency food, as it has decent shelf life.

    Surströmming is traditionally eaten once or twice per year, by a minority.
    I personally like it, but eat it less often than every third year, since I rarely find anyone to eat it with.

  17. We have many canned fishes, tuna, anchovies, herring mackerel, salmon, sardines, cod, mussels, forels, shrimps, and even sea slugs.

  18. Great with mayo spread in a baguette and eaten as a sandwich.

    Also the same but made as onigiris.

  19. Here in the UK, we have tinned fish , tuna , sardines , mackerel and others.

    Hover besides canned tuna , I’d say it’s really not that popular, especially amongst the under 35 crowed. We an island country but in reality seafood isn’t that popular besides “ canned tuna, fish and chips , fish fingers , kippers”.

  20. It used to be somewhat stereotypical ”poor student” food but it’s not particularly cheap nowadays €/kg wise.

  22. Italian here. A lazy and fast pasta with canned tuna, peas and baby carrots is the ideal dish if I can’t find the time to prepare anything else, especially when I started cooking (twas one of my first dishes).

  23. In Finland the traditional ‘canned fish’ is pickled and/or or salter herring and salt-cured fish -usually pike.

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