Those Generation Z kids and their … sardines. Talk about a fully freaky generational craze.

Their sardine infatuation came about via – what else? – TikTok. It has since been intensified by an outpouring of stunning sardine findings from health and nutrition researchers.

Reigning supreme are claims that eating three cans of sardines per week, maybe even a can a day, can do hitherto unimagined wonders for the health of one’s heart, skin and soul. The taming of diabetes is also in the sardine cure-all mix.

What’s more, something highly communal has arisen from the Gen Z sardine thing, most conspicuously “tinned fish date…