Snoek

Snoek is an important food resource, and its flesh is of good quality. During and after the Second World War it acquired an undesirable reputation in Britain, whither large quantities of it in cans were imported from S. Africa, largely because the British public were tired of being exhorted to eat things they did not really like, and especially things handicapped by quaint names like ‘snoek’, the offputting character of which had not been perceived by the civil servants charged with the task of promoting it.