Gourmandise de mr le marquis

There are many places on the Internet where you can go to "Find out how to", but they all tend to be "genteel" places, and don't really tell you the BEST way.
..Now these little babies sometimes present "genteel" people with a problem, because they tend only to know them in this form...easy to eat..and eatable in the "genteel" fashion - with knife and fork......!
Unfortunately the taste isn't there!
Today I found some freshly landed sardines in the Halles here, so - into my basket they went.
Now I'm going to cook them - BBQ probably - and eat them in the time honoured traditional way, so scorned by those "food snobs" who have forgotten that the original knives and forks are still available - they're dangling - attached to your wrists....!..Girlies can do it too, and guys just love doing it - it's total freedom.......I'll give you a little story about how I learnt, and not only is it thoroughly enjoyable, but is even "genteel" and doesn't put others off their food by having to watch sardine heads disappear into the mouths of  hungry males - or females.
I learnt this in a rather "posh" fish restaurant in Riyeka, in the one time Yugoslavia...I've written about the place elsewhere already https://sites.google.com/site/ianwmitchellswebsite/oh-those-communists and a real education it was.
Two business men sitting nicely within our viewpoint were relishing and ravishing some poor little grilled sardines, quite simply by picking them up by hand (they are a kind and genteel fish - the offer head and tail to do so), then running their teeth gently and calmly into the flesh of the fish. all the way up one side, just leaving the filet bone, genteely turned the whole thing over and did the same on the other side.This is what they were left with neatly attached still to head and tail!
Nobody had been offended, disgusted - everyone was happy, but of course those natural utensils were just a little sticky and smelly.....No problem - a slice of lemon was used as "wash tissue", a piece of bread as towel.....then the piece of bread was popped into the mouth....!
Now this wash, as I said, in a relatively high class place, so if it's good for all those highly placed communists of Tito, then it's good for anybody.....!
So - now you know.....go enjoy and don't ever be scared of using your fingers, just maybe not for the soup.......



Bonne Appétit!