What do you do if you want to serve something your guests claim not to like? Frederica Fare (Parents Association of Frederica Academy, St. Simons Island, Georgia, 1977) has already made it clear that changing your plans and serving something the guests actually like is just coddling them. A good host just serves the disliked item anyway and insists that the guests will like this version.
Maybe that sneakiness contributed to the name of this recipe, which is presumably for people who don't like sardines.
Of course, if you tell people it's a Sardine Disguise Dip, the sardines aren't much of a secret.... But failing to tell guests of the fish's presence leaves the possibility that they won't know what's in the dip and will fail to grasp your utter contempt for their personal preferences. Don't want to miss out on that!
Now I'm imagining sardines dressing up for Halloween. I wonder what they would get for trick or treating. I don't know what sardines eat, or if there are any special treats they find sometimes.
ReplyDeleteMy extremely cursory research says they will eat phytoplankton, but they prefer the zooplankton. So I guess you'd need treat bags of zooplankton for anchovies to consider you a good house on Halloween.
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