Meaning
Tinned sardines — small oily fish packed in oil or tomato sauce, a cheap and ready pantry protein. Often eaten straight from the tin with crackers or hard-dough bread, or quickly fried up with onion and scotch bonnet. A go-to quick meal when money or time is short.
Examples
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Mi juss eat sardine an crackaz fi lunch.
I just ate sardines and crackers for lunch.
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Fry di sardine wid onion an pepper.
Fry the sardines with onion and scotch bonnet.
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A tin a sardine save di day.
A tin of sardines saved the day.
Origin
From English 'sardine'; the tinned form a staple quick meal across the Caribbean.
How it’s used
Tinned sardines, eaten with crackers or hard-dough bread or fried up. A cheap quick meal. See [[mackerel]], [[hard-dough-bread]].