I myself haven’t eaten them since leaving home 38 years ago, but we’d have sardines on crackers occasionally when I was growing up. We’d also have canned salmon, usually with capers and sliced onions, on hot evenings.

And when Dad went out of town, tuna noodle casserole!

My parents grew up in Pittsburgh, hundreds of miles from the ocean, with three toxic rivers. When they grew up, fish came in cans.