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Jun 20, 2023

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MIDTOWN, NY — This can of sardines may take the cake for New York City's most outrageously priced good. At the Fantastic World of the Portuguese Sardine in Times Square — the first U.S. location of a

MIDTOWN, NY — This can of sardines may take the cake for New York City's most outrageously priced good.

At the Fantastic World of the Portuguese Sardine in Times Square — the first U.S. location of a Portuguese chain — a three-ounce can of sardines is going for $44, Eater New York reported.

The new store sits on Broadway between West 47th and 48th streets.

The history-focused brand sells cans of sardines, the "queen of the sea," packed in Portuguese olive oil. Each can dons a year on it dating back to 1916 — most of which sell for about $15, according to Eater New York and the store's website.

Each tin also dons historical facts and a list of celebrities born this year. The 1978 can — which can't have actually cost more than 60 cents in 1978 — proudly boasts that 1978 was the year that the first test tube baby was born in England.

On the store's website, a 1978 can goes for seven euros.

It was also the year Kobe Bryant and Nelly Furtado were born.

"This tin holds more than just the excellence of the best sardines in olive oil in the world – it contains decades of the art of canning," the company said on its website.

The dates on the cans are actually just symbolic, they don't actually represent the year a can was packaged, Eater reported.

The store sells 30 different types of canned fish. The most expensive is a skinned, hand-deboned sardine dotted with gold leave, Eater reported.