Pickled Herring Taste Test | Canned Fish Files Ep. 79

[@mcgreedy01]

Ceviche is nothing like this

[@CannedFishFiles]

lol

[@deloreswilson1798]

Give him a Kleenex..he's so sentimental..🤗

[@deloreswilson1798]

Is it slippery or firm?I can get into firm..🤔

[@deloreswilson1798]

I like it,but I don't think I'd like ceviche.Now that I've had pickled fish,I can stand it's texture.It's cooked enough. 🤔

[@simonh6371]

@@deloreswilson1798 It's firm, almost meaty in texture. slightly chewy but not at all tough. Here in the UK and rest of NW Europe i.e. Netherlands, Germany etc they are called Rollmops, sold in jars, rolled up with onion and a bit of gherkin in the centre, held together with a little wooden skewer. Soused herring is an old south English variant of this.

[@smileymouse2196]

I felt like I was alone, like I didn’t belong anywhere. But I’ve found the sardine community. Matt, you’re a brand ambassador for the sardine lifestyle. I personally think that’s incredibly brave of you. You’re a voice for all of us. I used to open a can of sardines with shame. I thought; Do my coworkers hear a foghorn and seagulls at lunchtime? Now I’m a proud sea urchin a real salty dog, prowling the seven seas for my bounty full feast. What are we even doing here…Our battle cry!

[@CannedFishFiles]

I remember this feeling, let's all leave our shame behind and enjoy some fish! Your coworkers are jealous!

[@Maria-km2pe]

This comment is hilarious omg

[@deloreswilson1798]

We are fish conissuers...🤣🤣🤣🤣👍

[@deloreswilson1798]

ARRGH MATEY!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣👍🐟🦈

[@davesbackyardchickensandou3905]

Oh my gosh I love salinas and this stuff here is Is added to my list of loves.

[@jasondietz5977]

I love the old "Eyewitness" music. I used to watch Eyewitness Dinosaurs on repeat when I was like, four. Takes me back, brother.

[@DanieleGiorgino]

I love that there are people passionate about preserved fish and I love that through KZbin you can share your passion with the world.

[@nanvolentine9110]

Herring in cream sauce, a New Year must have!

[@jombeemeanstroke6426]

"I think this adds a whole line of inquiry here on fish files" Yes. Yes it does.

[@stir47]

Yah, cranky old guy here again...I first tried pickled herring in 1957, when I was ten. It was at a family Scandinavian Christmas gathering. I ran to the bathroom and spit them out! Fast forward to adulthood and I reexamined the taste, and found I really liked pickled herring. I've been lucky enough to eat pickled herring in Sweden, with relatives. Good stuff...and creamed pickled herring might even be better.

[@micahdude8235]

I was a bit opposite. I instantly loved pickled herring as a kid. My dad would occasionally buy some from a mom and pops local grocery store. It was always a treat. Fast forward since I was also 8-10ish I haven’t had any cause I always thought it was called pickled herring. Well, I’m in my late 20s now and I just realized it’s always been called herring in wine sauce(which I used to think was different).

[@zalibecquerel3463]

As a native expert, in your opinion is there a best way to eat them? I see videos of people eating Surstrommig who enjoy it on some sort of flat bread, with sliced raw onions.

[@REXFORGT]

@Zali Becquerel I'm Norwegian but I think it's best on lefse which is the soft cousin of flatbread, with rømme (sour cream), red onion and some fresh herb like parsley or dill (optional) . Flatbread (not to be confused with knekkebrød) is best served with grilled fish (Trout, Pollock, Cod etc.) with butter and sour cream, pepper and salt and some dill sprinkled on top. Some lemon juice squeezed on top also works wonderfully. Now I'm hungry 🤤.

[@stir47]

@@REXFORGT That sounds good! Although my Scandinavian half has more Swedish, I also carry some Norwegian DNA around with me, and am a member in good standing in the Sons of Norway Organization.

[@stir47]

...and I have eaten Surströmming much as you have described.

[@actuallyhusksofcorn3028]

Am I to believe that the entire video biography of this channel revolves around reviewing preserved fish products? Because I'm subscribing.

[@6bthedevil]

You are the best, Brotha. The soundtrack is the perfect pinch of pixie dust magic for this unexpectedly soothing therapeutic video. May your next meal be delicious 👊💥

[@CannedFishFiles]

Thank you bro!

[@carolyn3543]

This puts me back to grandma's living room "cocktail snacks" that we used to eat with Ritz crackers. I learned to love them!

[@sundok1]

I live in the Netherlands, we are a the herring nation, we devour them "raw" after a slight fermentation on salt. But one of the snacks i like once in a while are those herring filet pieces in cream sauce. It's that same pickled herring but then smothered with cream sauce with pieces of onion in it. Same butter smooth bite goes down easy with a beer.

[@LuckyGuu]

I did not enjoy the hearing and cream sauce and threw a large jar away.

[@Metallstaubwolf]

German here, all pickled herring is amazing.

[@stenerline]

Much better served on rye bread as done in Denmark

[@REXFORGT]

@@stenerline You have to try it on Norwegian lefse..

[@deloreswilson1798]

You're so sentimental.That's why we love you,at least I do.The internet is rough,you're our hero.At least,mine.🤗😆

[@pnwesty7174]

Never had pickled herring (it scared me) until about 5 years ago at a friend's Thanksgiving (they are upper-Midwest Norwegian stock). It's amazing stuff, and I look forward to having it a few times a year.

[@stewartberger7734]

Great video as always......Couldn't stand this stuff as a kid. My dad loved it......Many years later I cannot get enough of this

[@coconutfleetsleeper5717]

Pickled herring is what it's all about:) I love that stuff. There's so many variations, spices, herbs, cream, boze, salt, acidity, sweetness. I'm gonna crack a can right now to celebrate :)

[@dfgndfghdfghdfgh]

This is the type of fish that got me started on preserved fish initially. Rollmops are popular in the UK and so I was always fed them as a kid. They help your lobes grow big.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Rollmops ? Is that a band ?

[@bennylevine387]

Same here, but in Detroit.

[@bennylevine387]

@@Hartlor_Tayley I think it's a different term for herring in wine sauce and I think the pieces are bigger with rollmops than the jar Matthew was sampling.

[@miesals]

@@Hartlor_Tayley Its the whole herring fillet but rolled.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

@@miesals thank you all for the replies. That makes sense. Rollmops is such a funny word to me. I will be inserting “rollmops” into conversations from now on.

[@thenewlevi]

Love pickled herring! Personal favorite is Olsen brand.

[@SlowJabroni]

I got a jar of this one time for a video. I stuck it in my pantry (not refrigerator) without thinking. A couple weeks later it exploded. Worst smell of all time.

[@geno5360]

Ouch

[@CannedFishFiles]

f in da chat

[@BobbyAeros]

in the old times they used to say this was the price you had to pay if you wanted to ferment fish properly for longterm storage. Its like the fish would come alive through the glass jar, sharding it everywhere in a great exploding wrath if you forgot to salt them before they went in the jar - they gotta be atleast as salty as the sea they came from. After you opened the jar, you didn't put them in the fridge? Another rookie mistake. If you open the jar, the north sea demons awaken, they have to be cold like the fjords of norway. Big hub bro, sorry you had to go through that.

[@robertleslie2467]

Love the Vita herring and love to be loving more the Vita herring in sour cream sauce over the wine. Either way, good stuff. Now you absolutely have to do a review of the Vita Herring in Sour Cream! Mahalo!

[@ig00g1e]

Never in a million years would I have thought I would enjoy watching another guy eat.

[@FoulOwl2112]

As a working musician, you gotta pay your dues if you expect to make a living. That means playing A LOT of bar mitzvahs! Trust me. You learned to love pickled herring.

[@seepersleeper5752]

love the music/ sound choices. keep watchin random vids from you and every time impressed w the songs.

[@PhranklinEspo]

My friends polish mom makes the most amazing pickled herring with onions. Nothing has ever compared.

[@jeanettegirosky7735]

omg I love your shirt LLAP. My dad used to take me to a fish market back in the early 70s...he'd get a 5 gallon bucket of creamed herring and we'd split it with the family.

[@nessabunni]

I've always wanted to try this but i just bought it today because of your video!! It's so delicious! I was pleasantly surprised. I also added some soy sauce and thai chili and its really a great experience! The spice really brings out the savory umami taste from the fish and vinegar. Try it out!!

[@woodcutter4481]

Love that stuff! I would like to try making pickled fish sometime. Lots of great snacking stuff on your channel. Thanks!

[@SteveB357]

It is uncooked fish, preserved by pickling. Being a German family from Brooklyn, we were required, possibly by Burrough law, we learned to love them.

[@CannedFishFiles]

God bless Brooklyn. Happy new year Steve.

[@mlynn2161]

I'm not brave enough to try this one but it's great to see what it looks like. Thanks, Matthew!

[@BobbyAeros]

Just try it, you have one and only one life to live right? either you hate or or you love it, atleast you get to know that if you try. Sitting around not eating pickled herring you will never know.

[@mlynn2161]

@@BobbyAeros You've inspired me! I think I will try it!, 😂

[@understandunderstand1271]

This is why KZbin is so great this whole channel is brilliant

[@MichaelG1986]

Imported by the Acme Corporation. Chairman Wile E. Coyote.

[@BobbyAeros]

I just read all the comments and its incredible how popular this is. Pretty much top teir jarred fish it sounds like.

[@gbird5000]

New Matthew Carlson and Slow Jabroni on the same day!!!! The artwork in the thumbnail for this episode is wild!

[@CannedFishFiles]

THANK YOU. Drawing that fish took longer than making the entire video. I'm trying to learn how to draw. And doing it all digitally, with coloring is a new thing for me.

[@darkcosmos88]

I've seen pickled herring at my local supermarket and I often ask myself 'who eats this?" But the fact that they keep restocking it means someone is eating it.

[@Atzy]

I've never in all my life considered just eating herring straight out of the jar with chopsticks, here (in Sweden) there is so much ritual and tradition about how and when you eat herring XD But you do you man! 👍

[@wasylbakowsky5199]

HUGE fan of pickled herring! You can also mix it with sour cream and serve it that way...

[@sunshine8556]

The herring is crying for a danish rye bread.

[@seamoreplant]

Or Dutch Roggabrood!

[@jonasjorgensen8759]

​@@seamoreplant rugbrød❤

[@Swimmaroo]

The plate is too hard for their bones. They need a rye bed

[@AntFong]

Oh! I see the same exact stuff on sale at Costco all the time but I keep getting cold feet. Thinking I want to learn how to make rollmops with them for a fishy drinkin' snack. Now that they have your stamp of approval, I've got no excuse not to try them out!

[@CannedFishFiles]

Get into it! Have some in the parking lot!

[@TURBONERD]

I found this channel looking for canned fish videos to cure a midnight curiosity. And what I found was incredibly well produced videos and great personality. :)

[@xWendzy]

that song in the beginning… activated some sort of neuron in my brain….. im recollecting some television program about showcasing species of animals

[@CannedFishFiles]

It was a show called Eyewitness. I never watched it, I think it was a little after my time, but another YT channel I like uses this music and I thought it was da bomb.

[@jcmick8430]

Finally you share something i love and can justify the algo constantly recommending your vids lol

[@SPQR-Z]

If you like pickled herring you might try Soused herring or Sill lightly salted pickled Herring in a jar. My Norwegian mother in law used to serve them whole on a soft roll that resembles a artisan Hotdog bun with lots of chopped onion. Sill herring can be purchased at a German deli or IKEA of all places. Or it’s fairly easy to make at home if you can find some fresh Herring at the fish market.

[@titusidol2773]

I’m a big fan of pickled herring it is delicious, also I’m very shocked you couldn’t find vita it’s everywhere where I live.

[@CannedFishFiles]

Vita was literally the only brand I ever saw in my entire life UNTIL I actually tried to find some a couple months ago. I'm beginning to understand that there may already be such a pickled herring scene that Vita just can't get into the territory.

[@jnieto237]

You sir are the best!

[@Silvereagledude]

I’m loving the shirt, ye Lord of Flatbush

[@Ms_Davina]

Mmmm pickled herring. Big fan of pickled herring, especially Rollmops.

[@StumpkillerCP]

When I was in college (1978) we went on a winter ski bus trip to the Catskills. I was the ONLY one of 30 students who relished the pickled herring, creamed herring, lox, etc. on the breakfast menu. I love fish and still do. Matthew is a kindred spirit. Cilantro tastes like soap to me. But fish, any fish, is my comfort food. I could happily give up red meat if fish was available. Mackerel, bluefish, snapper, swordfish, cod, plain old "whitefish", (all either broiled or breaded), throw in calamari, and ANYTHING in a can. No coincidence, perhaps, that my ancestors were Danish.

[@davesbackyardchickensandou3905]

Tried some of this pickled herring for the first time today. On a friend suggestion. Oh my gosh my new love.

[@poppaspank]

I haven't found it lately, don't know if they're still in business. But I highly recommend Ma Cohen's Pickled Herring with onions in Sour Cream. Mmmmm... the best.

[@richpinkxx2002]

OMG. I want to haz.

[@JongiB96]

The music is turning this whole thing into a comedic act 😂

[@procrastinationstation3343]

Pickled herring was one of those things that I expected to hate, but I actually ended up loving it! Still a favorite of mine

[@bluegillbum3165]

We have pickled pike,musky ,perch and walleye it's amazing 🐟😊 I have seen the Vita brand around here before ,if I can find a jar I will ship it to you 👍

[@CannedFishFiles]

You think it'll ship ok?

[@BobbyAeros]

@@CannedFishFiles Its like Ceviche it'll be okay

[@britinmadrid]

But, Mateo - ditching the tin cans for glass opens up a whole new world for you and us! Be careful where your feet lead you - next stop boxed fish fingers! 😕 Seriously, I love fish and have eaten similar to this, but the visual aspect of fish in liquid as opposed to (olive) oil is visually 'challenging'. However, I would urge people to give it a whirl.

[@CannedFishFiles]

But fish love liquid! It's their home!

[@michellet7298]

I love pickled herring! You literally made me feel seen talking about sitting on the couch as a kid eating them out of the jar!!! Literally everyone else in my entire life has been like ew what gross. 😂 But I want the video with the Vita jar - total memories!

[@stephenn3727]

My daddy always said pickeld herring would put hair on my chest. I ate lots of herring but alas no chest hair. Love the channel!

[@CannedFishFiles]

I'm gonna keep an eye out to see if it finally comes in!

[@eggplant9277]

woah, that's really cool for $6 i just had ortiz anchovies on toast with a large amount of some good butter i plan on making all sorts of interesting pickles soon. i think finger lime, small chillies, and makrut lime leaves could be really good for oysters, white fish, crab...

[@BobbyAeros]

I will be waiting for your youtube video, challenge yourself! I've pickled chili peppers with kefir lime leaves, then blended into hot sauce, it works, do it!

[@brucebehner4142]

It's amazing how much smells will bring back old memories. Just hearing you explain it brings me back. Don't know if you've done ceviche yet, I havent seen it canned, but it is delicious. May have to lead to another Matt channel of "things from the sea that not everybody eats?" Another great video, keep it up.

Gonna have to taste some day, thanks for your review! I love ceviche!

[@johndayan7126]

Great review! Aldi has Freemont Fish Market Wild Herring in Wine Sauce, 32 ounce jar I think for about $8 which is a lot of fish for not a lot of money. Good stuff. Love your reviews. 🐟🐠

[@mrctunes]

First: Dope shirt is dope. 🙂 Second: I love the content, but pickled herring is a reach for me. I've only had it once that I've truly enjoyed. It was a Pumpernickle Bahn Mi with pickled onions, fried ham, herring, and spicy dijon mustard. Incredible. Keep churning vids dude, I hope you make a fortune!

[@CannedFishFiles]

I honestly think herring is easier than sardines, for the uninitiated.

[@edringston]

absolutely crushing that jar big ups

[@stopbath]

Love the Eyewitness VHS theme song cover in the beginning. Very nice modular set up, I'm guessing all these pleasant arpeggios are yours? Sick beats, even sicker 'erring innit?

[@27clearblue]

Okay, you have done it. I have to try pickled herring now

[@bradleyr34]

Good video, Matthew. You’ve have again showed me something I had never thought about trying. I can get the Vita in wine sauce at a Walmart about 6 miles away. It’s $8 in a 32 oz jar. Gonna give it some serious thought.

[@Sabbathissaturday]

It’s only going to go up in price! Bite the bullet if you want to try it.

[@bradleyr34]

@@Sabbathissaturday , Your comment pushed me off the fence. I bought the Vita. Wow! It’s delicious! My wife even likes it. Thanks for the encouragement!

[@geeraider7140]

I finally found the episode i left off on in the playlist now to continue!

[@koostory1776]

Love the fact with using chopsticks 🥢

[@gravemind3859]

*Me to the boys* - Yooo. You guys wanna get fucking ham sauced on some pickled Herring, brohansolo?!?!

[@greensombrero3641]

It's a time machine jar of herring

[@donphilp7511]

Have not thought of it in years now now I have to go and get some tomorrow

[@daviscampbell9020]

Man i miss these.

[@greensombrero3641]

Polish herrings with cold vodka

[@robertthompson2985]

I enjoy herring as well. Now time for smoked Sock eye Salmon available at Walmart.🐒

[@linklesstennessee2078]

I like herring I’ll have to get me a jar of this

[@deloreswilson1798]

I used to hate pickled fish,now I like it thanks to you.I got some Vita..Wine sauce would be nice too.😗

[@SimpleLevyLovesTea]

I actually like this stuff 😃

[@SlumberBear2k]

gotta try it!

[@beckdogg]

I am watching a guy eat canned fish....

[@chrisflood9205]

The first time you try herring it’s magic ! But if you eat a jar a week you will have to buy new pants .if you live in New York vita is harder to find because acme is king of fish .you can find vita where they sell the horseradish

[@TheWasher18]

Pickled herring and pan fried mushrooms with some onion added for moisture and let that sit for a few hours. Lithuanian delicacies.

[@Budsport_TV]

You must try “surstromming”

[@MISTER_DOTY]

Absolutely do the version in sour cream. Yum!

[@maxygg]

Matt eating Gefilte fish and pickled herring.... you've got to have some Jewish blood in you somewhere. That's my guess. Anyway try the herring and gefilte fish with Tam Tam crackers and then you will have a revelation.

[@CurtisHowell]

I've seen this in the store and have shown my kids as a joke because they'll gag face. I may try it now...

[@LuckyGuu]

I used to get smoked sprats in a rounded jar shorter than the jar that you just opened. $2.99 they were from Latvia but I don't remember the brand name. They were standing vertically in the jar have you ever seen this? 🐟🐠🐟🐠🐟🐠🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🐬🦈🦈🦈🦈

[@tarawalker7193]

Were they Polar?

[@BobbyAeros]

Riga gold in jar form, they also come in cans, usually found in international/eastern european/russian grocery stores. Very smokey and excellent spread over hard crunchy toast.

[@AlastairjCarruthers]

This makes me crave pickled herring, which I eat about 1/3 of a jar of every eight years

[@LuckyGuu]

I'm hoping one day we will see canned frog legs!!!! 🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🐸🦘 And smoked kangaroo meat.

[@CannedFishFiles]

It's been a few years but I'm very pro-frog legs.

[@robertthompson5501]

Yes! Vita in my fridge now. 🙏👹

[@MAXCOBRALAZERFACE]

I like the pickled herring more than the sardines. But I’m trying to train myself to eat more sardines.

[@Karl63601]

"Make your day a little bit brighter, eat a little pickled herring by Vita."

[@CannedFishFiles]

Sir, I'm just a pup, so thanks for hipping me to the Allen Swift thing.

[@samheckle1753]

I found the acme cream sauce, homestyle, and wine sauce herring at my local International market

[@CannedFishFiles]

I want to try the cream ones so bad, but I'm going to wait to make a video so I can lose my mind on tape.

[@firejelly]

My god… my grandfather use to always have a jar of this stuff (not sure the brand). I didn’t know there was another human who dared consume it.

[@tommyjoestallings855]

quality video as always

[@BoomerLoveforGenZ]

Anything with the Blue Hill Bay Brand is superior. They make delicious cold-smoked salmon, smoked trout and smoked whitefish, found at Whole Foods and Sprouts.

[@CannedFishFiles]

I'm sure I'll try it all. I also tried their "homestyle pickled herring" and it was amazing.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

I havnt tried that brand but I think I’ve had their smoked trout in the vacuum pack. Pickled herring is a good deal and quite tasty. Hey nice rack (synth). Maybe put the fish through the ring modulator until it tastes like chicken.

[@CannedFishFiles]

Mmmm dalek fish!

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

@@CannedFishFiles a little espanaler sauce and they’re dalekicious

[@matt123411]

I was wondering if you would branch off into other pickled seafoods. I love pickled cockles, mussels, and seaweed (makombu tsukudani).

[@johngalt6929]

Pickled herring and pickled mushrooms are fantastic. Wash it down with some vodka stored in the freezer. .

[@AquaFurs]

Onion is crucial, some brands skimp on the onions. Eat with crackers. Also available with sour cream, ya!

[@ChoochooseU]

So what am I even doing here??? So I’m sittin here somewhere north of the ‘Ville aka Nashville Tennessee USA.... watching another epi of the canned fish files on a Saturday morning. I’m now the proud owner of a random bag of miscellaneous canned fish food stuffs to try.... I’m trying to work out just how and why this whole damn show works ya know? Like if someone was to ask me, “what did you do with your precious moments on this Earth today?” And I’m like- binge watched some guy eat deenz from a can with chopsticks 🥢 would cause them to squint n eye and scratch their head- secretly wondering if I might need evaluated at the local mental health facility. 🤔 I can’t explain but the best way I could describe this guy and his appeal is like know how when you watch a Tarantino film moment and realise he can make the most mundane everyday moments fascinating and riveting? It’s like that mixed with the chill & safety of the Joy of a Bob Ross vibe. Honestly- he has proven by changing his cat box and walking through crowds that he is a Master at making whatever he does - charming and interesting. 👏🏻 👏🏻 👏🏻

[@BobbyAeros]

Welcome, whats your favorite canned fish?

[@CannedFishFiles]

Thank you very much! I make my video for people like you that get it.

[@johngalt6929]

I like herring much better than sardines.

[@johngalt6929]

I like the firmer texture of canned herring. Sardines are usually way too mushy for me.

[@LWmusik]

try to get your hands on some varieties if swedish pickled herring! Matjessill, senapssill, västkustsill and traditional inlagd sill are the four best ones. But there's like thousands other flavours as well.

[@snowjoe43]

My favorite is the “Homestyle” type. Pickled in brine and onions. No wine.

[@OverCowboy]

Pickled herring, onions, boiled potatoes, some butter or olive oil. Herring brined in salt and pepper and oil, preferably, and it should look "raw" and silver. Oh boy