Originally Posted by Jay Bharrat:
When you are starving, that's good food. (Context, Brother).
Dude,
It's "good food" because we were/are a colonial people who solidly bought into the Imperial economic and cultural system of the Victorian/Edwardian Era.
The sardines came from British fisheries, therefore good. The sardines cost more than cheap local fresh fish, therefore good.
Our sardine habit as a People is actually one of the most potent symbols of the success of the British Empire.