REGALIS CONSERVAS MUSSELS (111G)

These are my new favorite tinned seafood snack, hands down. The hand-shucked texture is perfect and that escabeche marinade is tangy and rich without being too oily. I’d buy a case just for the smoky vinaigrette alone.

The smoky pimenton in the escabeche hits right after the tangy vinegar, and the mussels stay plump despite the frying in olive oil. I ate the whole tin straight from the jar with some crusty bread, and the hand-shucking really shows in the clean, tender texture.

The escabeche marinade is what sold me — that pimenton kick with the vinegar tang hits just right, and the mussels themselves are plump, not rubbery at all. I ate half the jar straight off the fork while standing in the kitchen, then regretted not buying two.