There are small, ordinary sprats, and there are large ones, as big as the palm of your hand. I always bought regular sprats, but then I saw a jar of sprats with the inscription “Large sprats” and bought them out of curiosity. At home, my wife and I opened a jar, cut off Borodino bread and began to put large sprats on the bread. One large sprat for a large piece of Borodino bread. They began to put large pieces into their mouths and tried to chew everything. When we chewed for a long time, we realized that large sprats do not have a characteristic smoky smell. Probably, large thick sprats in conventional technology could not be as well saturated with smoke as small ones. The wife spat out a large sprat on the floor with the words: “What disgusting,” and the gray British cat Tyufik stole it. I concentrated and chewed everything to the end, but I won’t say that this process brought me pleasure. Now I never buy large sprats, but only small ones.