whats the difference between a sardine and a pilchard

Sardineist, or Pilchardist, c'mon which are you

They are the same fish.

one stinks other really stinks

the wording on the tin

ddeep - are they both a sardine, a pilchard, or something else?

In a rebranding exercise that would put even the most cunning of Downing Street spin-doctors to shame, the half-forgotten and ever-so-humble pilchard has been rechristened and is now selling by the boat-load. Arise, the Cornish sardine.

This saviour of Cornwall's faltering economy may be slippery, shiny and about six inches long, but it could hold the key to thousands of new jobs in one of the Britain's most impoverished regions. But don't, don't call it a pilchard.

For Nick Howell, manager of the Pilchard Works factory and museum at Newlyn, the decline of the once-proud fish into obscurity presented a unique challenge: how to make Britons think pilchard again.

"I changed the name and perception," says Howell. "I was looking for a fresh market for pilchards." He managed to convince wholesale buyers that Cornwall was abundant in sardines - the only thing was, they happened to be called pilchards

Here's a health to the Pope
And may he repent
And increase by a hundred
The days of his lent
And tell all of his vassals
From Rome to the Poles
There's nothing like pilchards
For Saving the souls.

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