 a lot of people grow up having a bad anchovy experience at like a pizza shop and they're like the oldest anchovies they're not high quality and so they get turned off of them which is really unfortunate because when they're good they're incredible they don't taste fishy they taste meaty and super savory people talk a lot about umami it's that super savory sense we get from a specific amino acid called um contaminic acid and anchovies are so high in it so if you like that umami flavor