29/11/2025
According to my algorithm, sardines are suddenly every girlie’s favourite superfood. Meanwhile, in my hometown Mahdia, a little fisherman peninsula where life revolves around the sea, sardines have always been… just life. So today I’m spotlighting our most cult sandwich spot, 3am Bachir (Uncle Bachir).
Tuna, sardines, or both (but sardines are the star here), drowned in harissa with pickled veggies and potatoes.
I always find it oddly funny how ingredients so humble and ancestral suddenly become trendy, like it was just discovered, when for many and particularly in the South, they are simply what people grew up eating.
Would be nice to eat it by the sea… But the real ones know: this sandwich must be saucy and be eaten at the counter, fingers messy, with a few local olives on the side. I only had a quarter today because couscous is waiting.