Doing some grocery shopping at a Fremantle Woolworths store, I saw a familiar can of Mackerel 777. Last time I saw this brand of tinned fish was 40 years ago when we worked in Papua New Guinea. I bought a can and when I got home made a typical PNG meal of tinpis rais; tinned fish and rice. It was as I remembered all those years ago. Nice!
I am a member of an online group called I used to live in Papua New Guinea, so I thought I would take a photo of the can and post it on the list. Within a few hours it got dozens of comments relating to the edibility of said mackerel. Many expatriates claimed that they only fed it to their dogs and never tasted it. Others told where 777 tinpis could be bought in Australia. I figured that as 777 Mackerel was the basic fare of PNG nationals, some expatriates looked down on it. Others were familiar with it being used to feed almost every expatriate's dog and figured it was below human consumption. Others told of recipes using 777Mackerel.
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