🐟 Oil Packed #15

Finally, a bad one

Beach Cliff Fish Steaks in Louisiana Hot Sauce

Price: $1.90
Weight: 106g
Texture: Mushy
Taste: Astringent
Pair with: Don’t

Today on Oil Packed, we have a tin that needs no introduction. This review doesn’t have an opener because this can doesn’t need to be opened.

Beach Cliff Fish Steaks in Louisiana Hot Sauce are an acrid, upsetting fish. This tin consists of a handful of herring steaks packed in hot sauce along with other things, like polysorbate 80 and caramel color (mmm… caramel color). You’d think that a fish packed in hot sauce would be delicious, but you’d be wrong. The fish steaks have a mushy texture that goes down real rough, and they have their skin and bones included. Usually, I love the texture that skin and bones give, but in this tin, it’s like finding gravel in your oatmeal. The hot sauce is extremely vinegar-forward and doesn’t pair well with the taste of herring at all. Beach Cliff gets half of a point for creativity by packing herring steaks in hot sauce, but even that’s generous. To put it simply, these are horrible.

Do not pair Beach Cliff Fish Steaks in Hot Sauce with anything. I don’t recommend buying this tin, and I certainly don’t recommend tasting it.

I know there’s a crowd that likes this tin, but I just can’t get behind it. You can find this tin at your local grocery store, and I’m only telling you this so you can make sure not to buy it.

Rating: .5

photos by Aaron Barton