Cut
Tail
The tail is a lean end cut, firmer and less fatty than the loin, an uncommon and economical pack.
About 13 tail tins. Firm and holds its shape: flaked into a salad, folded through pasta, over rice. A cut, not a species, and a thrifty way into a good fish.
MrTinned on tins cut as tail
Tins in the index13
Houses– –
Species1
Shops carrying– –
Cheapest in stock– –
Ninety-day usual– –
Ninety-day low– –
Ninety days, to 5 October 2026. A pair of dashes is a field with no query behind it yet.
Cut this way
TinSpeciesCheapest atPrice
Spicy Sardine Tails in Pickle Sauce, 140gby Güeyu MarSardineDeLaurenti Specialty Food and Wine$26.99
Twenty tins to a page. A row with no price is a tin we hold but nobody we track is selling today.
Cut is read from the label and from the ingredient list. Where a label states neither, the tin carries no cut rather than a guessed one.
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SheetWhere the can came from: a Welsh sheet, an English press, a New York seam and a Pittsburgh ring.
MrTinned · Issue 21, 3 October 2026