They’re on your feed. They’re on your table. They’re in candle form. Sardines — once just a tinned snack — have become the aesthetic mascot of the internet’s strangest, most self-aware food trend.
And the merch is abundant. H&M Home recently dropped a fish-themed capsule complete with (sold out) sardine napkin rings and a napkin set that bluntly reads: “Sardines.” Anthropologie followed suit with a seafood-forward tabletop collection in collaboration with artist Dasha Lebedev, creator of The Original Tinned Fish Candle — a waxy homage to the silver tin that launched a thousand memes.
