Meaning
A quick, cheap meal of canned sardines — mashed up with a little onion, pepper, and lime, or straight from the tin — eaten with bread, most often hard dough. Sardine and bread is a classic budget breakfast, lunch on the go, or something to eat when there is little money and no time to cook, filling and needing no fire. It sits with tin mackerel and bully beef in the trusted store-cupboard trio.
Examples
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Mash up di sardine an nyam it wid bread.
Mash up the sardines and eat them with bread.
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Sardine an bread fi a quick lunch.
Sardines and bread for a quick lunch.
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No money, no fire — just sardine an bread.
No money, no fire — just sardines and bread.
Origin
From 'sardine' (canned) + 'bread'; a cheap no-cook meal. See [[tin-mackerel]], [[bully-beef]].
How it’s used
Canned sardines eaten with bread; a cheap quick meal. See [[tin-mackerel]], [[bully-beef]].