Ramón Peña Garfish | Canned Fish Files Ep. 102

[@greensombrero3641]

The canned fish world was opened up to me by you Matt and I will be forever in your debt. Thank you!

[@richardgray8593]

Welcome to the wonder world of canned fish. Keep it under yer hat though, as if demand goes up, so will the prices.

[@The_Cali_Dude_88]

@@richardgray8593 A demand for 'sardines' has already began as it's also a 'new' fad for fasting. Also due to draught in EU we get Olive Oil prices soaring as well.

[@dougm7111]

Same here

[@nuclearicebreaker]

He opened up a can of fish on your ass?

[@robert9016]

@@The_Cali_Dude_88Luckily, here in Ohio we don’t have to worry about diet trends 😂

[@cdhui]

Matt had me at "This spine doesn't really hold up to the kind of perverted rough housing I want to do to it"

[@batacumba]

I’m starting to think this dude just wants an excuse to eat spines. 😂

[@evonne315]

Still awaiting the review of "tin of all spines". Someday a fan with find a can and send them in. THEN we will know what is REALLY up!!

[@exoticjams3928]

Hahaha, me too, his vocabulary and general mannerisms are so endearing

[@none3209]

"Hi, I'm a trash fish. First name Gar. Last name Bage."

[@britinmadrid]

Lol!

[@ataridc]

they look cool though

[@SissypheanCatboy]

@@ataridc they're only trash fish if you're too lazy to prep and cook them right.

[@FlavorTownCityCouncil]

I just subscribed to a dude who reviews canned fish, and I ain't even mad.

[@SalsHQ]

🔥🤣😂🔥

[@Scruffayy]

The sound design on these videos is fantastic

[@evonne315]

Agree.

[@Myselfnyou]

Definitely, i loved hearing his fart at 2:59

[@TheCatcherpie]

I am fully immersed in the tin fish rabbit hole and I have found the leader 😭. I love your videos! I just got my box from Dan and can’t wait to open and review it like you.

[@KevinBullard]

We call him The Commodore in the chatroom

[@Picasso_Picante92]

I can't believe I am subscribing to a channel of a guy who eats sardines. I can't stop.

[@Hartlor_Tayley]

Mind Blown ! So metallic, so beautiful. I liked how you referred to the Holy Espanaler sauce as “salad”. Great music. Round tin in a square box always feels very sophisticated. Thanks Matt

[@amandamartinez9497]

6:34 had me closing open windows thinking my unsolved mysteries started playing without my knowledge haha.

[@OglenStillafano]

Someday I hope to be a canned fish and make it on your splendid channel. You give the fish much respect. RESPECT!!

[@alexniklaus6216]

never would have thought I would be interested in a guy reviewing deenz. yet here I am, watching a guy, eating deenz.

[@jcmick8430]

Me too and I don't even like sardines

[@crybabychrononaut]

Lol. That Unsolved Mysteries music/Robert Stack voice over was LIT. 😂😂

[@michaelstots7107]

The racing stripe on the side is called the lateral line or lateral line organ. It’s a sensory organ used to detect movement, vibrations and pressure changes

[@eh.440]

Thanks, I'd often wondered what it was for

[@Donte_Mac]

good to know , we catch these garfish on the shoreline or off the rocks..they like like clear water too but they are hesitant to take the bait.

[@unregisturd]

@@Donte_Mac They love maggots, use a small long shank hook with a floater.

[@madmullet1990]

Yes hop on boat the garfish vessel , I have been fishin for them since childhood. 18 species here in Australian waters . YUM!👍

[@Leon1Aust]

Caught my first fish' it was a garfish at Long Jetty Tuggerah lakes, NSW early 1970s. The central coast in those days was the playground of Sydney siders a great place to go on summer holidays.

[@ronniesuburban]

Definitely glad you've decided not to give up sardines. You don't see much garfish out there on the shelves. It'd be tough on the channel if you had to review the same can week after week ;)

[@britinmadrid]

Yep, I can't remember having seen cans of these anywhere. I know $15 is a bit steep but I might treat myself on my birthday, or when I had guests over.

[@TalkernateHistory]

The first canned fish I ever had came to me by accident. I was at a nice Mediterranean restaurant and I ordered some mackerel off the menu. The guy comes out and he gives me a plate with bread, hummus, olive oil, and a can of Ramón Peña horse mackerel. I was confused, and slightly grossed out by it, but I'd had a few beers at that point and I was pretty hungry, so I gave it a try. It was delicious! I was hooked from then on. On canned fish in general, and Ramón Peña stuff in specific.

[@chevalierdesangreal]

👀 I don't like sardines and don't even know how I ended up here but the level of passion going into this review made me look at the entire video and maybe, just MAYBE is making me question if I should try sardines at 40yo because I had decided that I didn't like them as a young child maybe my taste has changed 😂

[@aathrael1372]

Hi, I'm not rly a fish enthusiast, but I really recommend you trying it in some form ! It doesnt have to be Sardines really, but maybe google for some fish that doesnt go all out on the fish taste ;) And as a german I have to recommend: If you could someohow get real bread( not whitebread), smear some butter on it, dont forget the pepper and enjoy a hearty snack )

[@bobbyhill1013]

Start with boneless skinless. Then work up

[@jcmick8430]

Get back to us 7months out

[@carolyn3543]

I just got my second box from Dan yesterday! I just need to thank you! Opening tinned fish is like Xmas! I never would have known the glory without your coaching! WOW

[@Ryan_Tinney]

Your production quality is so good. Excellent review as usual.

[@The_Cali_Dude_88]

I got some after your review along with their sardines and I'm a Pena' dude. Garfish is outstanding.

[@rachelle1]

OMG the unsolved mysteries music! Haha!!!..... And then Quantum Leap! 😄👍🏻🙌🏻

[@sugu8403]

I cannot believe your channel hasn’t blown up yet it’s actually awesome and I don’t even eat Sardines I still watch it 😂

[@pleasureincontempt3645]

Why don’t you try some? They’re cheap and truly exquisite in their own way. You can get fancy with vegetable crackers, sliced tomato, most cheeses and a balsamic vinegar reduction!. It’s what the rich people eat at parties to be sophisticated and is still cheap as hell.

[@adamkaneshiro]

the poetry this man spits to describe the yummy food he eats is nothing short of epic!

[@bocajred11]

Usually watch KZbin golf but yet here I am. Very well done.

[@vyr01]

Hah! canned fish channel, youtube still has some good in it

[@Myselfnyou]

Bro rocked back & forth before farting at 2:59. 😆💩

[@Disaster724]

Dude I would love if you’d review the canned barnacles by Conservas de Cambados

[@vincentvangogh3634]

Good stuff, Matt, greetings from the Netherlands

[@gunguy353]

Never tried Garfish before but looks pretty good. Thanks for sharing your video.

[@You-to-be]

If only I could get something other than sardines and mackerel in Nigeria.

[@eh.440]

I know how you feel, we only have sardines and Mackerel too

[@chrisflood9205]

Maybe the former Major League Baseball player Ramon Peña can sponsor a garfish party

[@petervlcko4858]

I would like to recommend you something I just found. It is swedish smoke roe pate with dill. If you can get hands on one you will be pleased. I found them in the lidl store. But they are not staple so idk if can get it in USA but it is like drug. Your videos make me happy to watch, it is like Jesus advertise how to eat. This is food for humans son 😁

[@benvasilinda9729]

Congrats on 15K subs.

[@eudaemxnia2481]

And just like that I am deeply engrossed in this new and unexpected canned fish rabbit hole.

[@paulpence8895]

LOL, clip of Blue Gabe!!!

[@Kelnef]

9 minutes of my brain expecting you to say garfield and not garfish

[@justinneilsonn2665]

That's enough KZbin for me today. Idk what reality I've stumbled upon but I need to go outside.

[@britinmadrid]

Mateo is a deenz-nut, I'm a deenz-nut, we're all deenz-nuts! However, this was fun as like you I've never tried (or seen?) garfish in a can - at least in the class of establishment I habitually shop in. Maybe I need to move upmarket? More vids on weird and wonderful fish and crustaceans, please!

[@archonmarch3965]

😂 Love this.. love the music

[@chuckshipley9917]

Just found you. Hi, I'm Chuck, and i like weird food in cans.

[@brendacollins345]

Would NEVER give up my lemon olive oil ‘dines…I have a cupboard full!! I ain’t eatin no bugs!!

[@paulmedina6082]

Thank You Again From Stanton CA to Sapulpa OK 👍

[@deloreswilson1798]

You keep me on the edge of my seat..What's the best is still out there, Matt??🙄😳🤔🙃

[@cschad1225]

Real nice. I've always enjoyed sardines but through your videos I've found a need to learn to use chop sticks and expand my tinned fish desires.

[@Donte_Mac]

them fish were perfectly packed in there...impressive tbh !

[@johndayan7126]

Definitely going to try to garfish. I used to see them in the Great Lakes all the time, but maybe not the same fish. On the olive oil, if it's a good quality olive oil, I always add some hot sauce, herbs, and/or vinegar and finish up the oil with some sourdough bread. Almost as good as the fish.

[@zacablaster]

Bar Harbor also makes a garfish, also absolutely delicious

[@storbokki371]

At the very start of the video, my poor eyesight had me so happy when I thought the can said 'CATFISH'.

[@carainfrance]

I had Garfish yesterday for the first time. I picked up the tin in Porto with a wide variety of other fish, brands, preparations. So far, the garfish have been my favorites. Portuguese sardines are too scaly for me.

[@deloreswilson1798]

I wanted some sardines so bad the other day. Made the mistake of getting them in water. Oh my gosh, they're fishy. I can't stand a fishy taste. I thought they'd be alright because they were from Poland. Don't eat any Asian sardines. But, no more water sardines, either. Good olive oil masks the fishiness. Oh well, anyway, I'm enjoying your show. Great and hilarious editing. Love you. 💋🎩🤔

[@Ironkitten83]

I grew up in the Eastern Caribbean where fried Gar is very popular. It has a unique texture and is very tasty.

[@jcmick8430]

Sniffed the lid like a wine bottle cork

[@tech-hqvip3290]

Thought the cat was a reflection. Looks like he approves.

[@robertleslie2467]

WHERE DO I GET A SET OF THOSE SUPER WOMBAT SKINNY TIP CHOPSTICKS!!!!! I swear I've looked every where on line but negative nada nyet. On another note...now I gotta gotta gotta get my butt scratchers on some Ramon Pena's. I am bereft of their culinary fish charms. And those gar look fantastic. On still another note, that "racing stripe" is called a lateral line of which most fish have. It is very pronounced on fish such as snook as an example. I am so stoked after watching this video flick. Mahalo to you oh kung fu master of tinned fish!

[@Yowarrior20]

Dope vid, some of your music is so relaxing

[@pici5533]

I don't even eat canned fish. What am I even doing here?

[@425.]

Me either and 5 months after you I’m here, watched the whole thing. What did you do with this bestowed upon info ?

[@beastgUy98998]

Great job matt keep it up! 👍

[@hakim6158]

"This spine is not succumbing to the kind of perverted roughhousing I want to do to it" - Frustrated political prison guard in a torture chamber

[@mugwort9255]

its a fish the hates Mondays and eats lasagna

[@agaba5500]

i cant believe you have a youtube channel doing this... what a world. and i spy a michigan beer on your desk!

[@pfpublius]

Sardines & french fries is one of my fav combos. I'm pretty intriguing by these garfish too. I live on the Gulf Coast and we see/catch them frequently...much bigger than the canned ones tho.

[@deloreswilson1798]

Never!!! Said like the Hacker.🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@linandy1]

😃 i love sardines, gonna try me some gar asap 😉

[@jimknowlton342]

Dan sent me a garfish can in my surprise me order, looking forward to it!!

[@DroneBeeStrike]

Canned fish channel? Yep I'm in. Plus drinking a Bell's Amber Ale, nice choice

[@mrctunes]

I love the vids, sir. Great content!

[@ninjaswordtothehead]

I wouldnt eat them, but some of the best times I've had fishing, was sitting on the bank of the Mississippi at night, with a small fire and a few brews, using worms and light-up bobber to catch river gar. They fight like no ones business.

[@jd4118]

Hot Tub Time Machine, that was clean!

[@bravobear1844]

Bro when you looked back that was hilarious

[@joejackson4202]

Was going to ask for a beginners guide. Found it, thanks

[@PenDragonsPig-Jam_on_Top]

the gar which we used to catch off southwest uk were a fun fish to catch. they were however green inside and coppery smelling. i forget how many bits were green from blood, flesh, bone, or all 3. for all their green and copperiness they were apparently good eating and realitively good bait. its something you catch during the heat of the day, so what are you going to do with it- throw it back- so i never actually ate one.

[@boog110]

I love canned fish! I need recommendations and where to buy!

[@coconutfleetsleeper5717]

Interesting, those does not have the green bones and are kind of small, maby its just the tail part of the fish in the can?... I get those alot when I fish trout in the spring/summer, don't really care for them myself, I'll take one home to the cat occasionally tho, she loves them.

[@mellownessuperstar2618]

I have thrown back so many of those fish and/or used them for shark bait.. Never thought to eat them this way. Ill catch my own rather than pay $15 tho

[@herrkulor3771]

You sure had baby ones there. In sweden they are larger and down by spain the are huge. Adult fish have superb white flesh and green / turqoise bone color after cooking. My favorite fish.

[@RoshanDesaiphl0923]

is there a best time to enjoy canned sardines?

[@oldironsides4107]

I always eat a can and 2 hard boiled eggs sitting on the toilet waiting for my train to arrive at the subway station.

[@Hamel7777]

your music is so good dude!!!! editing as well! love it

[@m.r.b.806]

Excellent content my brother keep that

[@NachozMan]

Damn you could see the quality in that meat when you did the cross section, yummy.

[@jaeff4]

Alien fish from the planet Gar.

[@deweyd8210]

I hope you’ll try the Ati Manel garfish in spiced oil. Super great and not super pricy.

[@deloreswilson1798]

Boy, I'd buy that for a dollar..😱🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@HeinleinShinobu]

I like the quantum leap music near the end

[@lightbox617]

I have caught these with a net while "crabbing" in NJ shore waters. They are not quite as big as the ones you have. I wonder if anyone cans "snappers," The very small, immature blue fish fry that is in the NJ shore area every spring.

[@uberaustin777]

heck yeah, on the fishy freaks finally!

[@CannedFishFiles]

Oh Austin, you're the Austin! Thank you sir, one of my original boosters!!

[@LuckyGuu]

@@CannedFishFiles what about 🐠🐟 triggerfish in a can? What about tilapia in a can or fancy🦐 shrimp and fancy shrimp sauce? 🍤🍤🍤🍤🍤 Or crayfish 🦞? 🦈🦈 Shark? Original Captain Kirk wants to know "what are the possibilities"? *{William Shatner is 90+ years old}∆

[@croakers64]

What kind of Chop Sticks are those?

[@twinblade63]

"totally perverted rough-housing" has never tasted so good.

[@cinnamontoast7670]

The music is very fitting!

[@tomallen9826]

It’s a beautiful fish. Slim, long and with phosphorescent bones. The common name in the Mediterranean is Zargana, Much more beautiful than the English ‘Garfish’

[@kijnek]

Truly weird entertainment. 👍👍

[@guytuba4768]

Is that where the tunes are made!?

[@justovision]

Nice Kalamazoo beer you got there.

[@davidcopple8071]

Howdy from Texas. Dude ! Alligator Gar nor the Long nosed Gar are not considered trash fish anymore. At least not here in Texas. I live on lake Livingston. The second biggest lake here in Texas. And this lake is fed by the Trinity river. The Trinity is considered the Meca for world class alligator Gar fishing in the world. But my real point is that Gar fish are some of the most delicious, bone free fish you have ever put into your mouth. Their meat is unique, just like they are. It's less like the texture of fish and more like the texture of lobster. And just as delicious !

[@Gallus7631]

What do you mean anymore? They were never considered a trash fish, it’s just clowns from out of state moving in, not knowing anything about anything and running their mouths right off the bat as most clueless people do, and saying incredibly stupid things to and around other poorly informed people like themselves. I’m from Louisiana, people have been eating the fish for centuries. This guy is example A of those people who have no clue what he’s talking about as he appears to barely even know what the fish is.

[@deloreswilson1798]

Hope that's dark beer.😆

[@totaljunkie333]

Your gunna glow up bro keep it up 😂

[@greensombrero3641]

What was the last can of sardines you showed in this video?

[@CannedFishFiles]

I think they were Belas.

[@SershKeys]

Dude! You always have all these synths and music stuff behind you. Do you make music, or have a channel about it?

[@seven_hundred-seven_hundred]

Very nice. Thank you. (Where can one get your chopsticks?)

[@Vv-mq7kx]

Never stop uploading , ps what hot sauce pairs well with fesh

[@aych131]

Mathew, what "totally perverted" rough housing did you want to do to those little underage fish 🧐