“Everything in the past month has become all things sardines!” USA Today explains: “What is ‘sardine girl’ summer”? And The Everygirl offers tips: “It’s a Sardine Summer: Here’s How to Embrace the Cheeky Trend.”
I amused myself by inventorying the instances of elegant, or inelegant, variation in these reports:
~ petite fishSince 2017, “small oily fish” has been my own deliberately dumb inelegant variation on “sardine” — like “slender yellow fruit” for “banana.”
~ salty snack
~ tiny fish
~ healthy, cheap snacks
~ inexpensive snack
Related reading
All OCA sardine posts (Pinboard)
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comic book
https://www.amazon.com/Debbie-Sardineland-Sardine-Council-Giveaway/dp/B0DJDRYRXY
The kids were ahead of their time.
sardines for lunch
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn88063132/1951-05-18/ed-1/?ciw=818&clip=2433%2C3094%2C2345%2C771&q=ernie+bushmiller+sardines&rot=0&sp=14
https://www.loc.gov/resource/sn83045462/1962-12-16/ed-1/?sp=236&q=ernie+bushmiller+sardines&st=image&clip=142,4499,4299,2245&ciw=1294&rot=0#
sardines in the comic strips
Thanks. I spotted the 1951 strip in 2015:
https://mleddy.blogspot.com/2015/10/sluggo-sardines.html
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