NOT PACKED IN LIKE SARDINES ANYMORE

Yall will get a kick out of this. When I was very young a grandpa was my father figure. I wanted to be just like him. I would even eat anything he ate. Some evenings the bedtime snack was sardines on saltines with a good dose of black pepper and a glass of buttermilk. I had wondered if he was only testing me.
So anyone here enjoy pork brains and eggs for breakfast also? Or salt mackerel and grits?
Any chance he was an old Dutchman?