Even better are the crostini ($7 each), particularly the fat smoked sprats and boiled quail eggs on toasts slathered in turmeric mayonnaise.
After dining on pints of prawns and skate in the 50s-style cafe, all benches and Formica, raid the smokehouse for eel, sprats and cod roe.
She suggests that the extensive gift shop and nostalgia-channelling Soviet-style cafe – featuring "Russian-style sprats" and a minimal "Nostalgija" borsch – make it a "Stalinist amusement park".
What people did do before TV, according to this first episode focusing on the music hall, was smear on some greasepaint, get up onstage and perform routines about sprats and murder.
Among Gillray's best satires on the king are "The Anti-Saccharites," in which the king and queen propose to dispense with sugar to the great horror of the family, and the companion plates of Farmer George and his wife "Frying Sprats" and "Toasting Muffins".
Stafford Scott, a longstanding community activist in Tottenham, said of the tactics of Trident: "They allow sharks to have guns in our community, and when the sharks pass the guns to the sprats, they arrest the sprats and lock them up.
After all, the whitebait isn't really a species, but a size: the average frozen bag picked up at a UK fishmonger is likely to contain the immature fry of a number of fish, not just sprats and herrings, but sardines, mackerel and more.
It has been estimated that an adult bird needs to eat about forty of these per day sand eels, herring, sprats and capelin being the most often consumed.
Was it my lunch that offended the air, pungent with hard-boiled eggs, sprats and pickles, wrapped in a crumpled brown paper bag?
Now, you can actually substitute the sprats for matjes herring if you have a hard time finding pickled sprats (and a suprisingly easy time finding matjes herring).
Pelagic fish such as sardines, anchovies, sprats and mackerels are the most exported products from the Middle East.
