Holy Mackerel!

I'm slacking off on my lessons, or maybe I'm not trying hard enough. However, I had a somewhat painful lesson today. Though not mackerel, it was certainly a fishy tale that needs to be told.

Apparently, tinned sardines contain water even when the label says they're packed in oil. Most likely, the water exudes from the cooked flesh of the fish into the oil as they sit about on the grocer's shelf. I discovered this bit of information after draining the fish from their oily casket and threw them into a hot pan with equally hot oil. The oil sputtered, spit and flew all over. Ouch. When I checked the tin, lo and behold, there was a water and oil layer nicely separated as one would expect after that messy ordeal.

So beware the vengeful sardine!! As Monty Python aptly put it: "I'm not dead yet!"