In the summer of 2021, an unlikely snack became all the rage on the internet: tinned fish.
The so-called “hot girl food” is exactly what its name suggests: processed seafood — namely sardines, anchovies, salmon, mollusks and shellfish — that’s neatly packaged and presented in a peel-back, often decorative tin. Tinned fish was the epitome of "girl dinner" before girl dinner became a whole thing. It's very mindful and very demure, one might say using TikTok verbiage. And, it pays homage to writer and chef Alison Roman, whose famed shallot pasta calls for a tin of anchovy fillets.
