Grandma's War -Snoek

The loss of the fishing industry owing to enemy attacks on fishing boats and the mining of beaches meant an absence of the cheap but tasty and nutritious fish like herring and mackerel from the UK diet.

Desperate to replace this the government arranged for cans of a fish called Snoek to be imported from South Africa.

I remember being given this in a fish pie at the kindergarten that I attended and was thoroughly told off because I was unable to eat the vile smelling grey mush that  made me retch.It had this effect on many people and remained on the shop shelves eventually being renamed and sold off for cat food.