While profiteers have been sending out pitiful portions of what appears to betuna in a coin bag <https://schoolsweek.co.uk/childrens-minister-vows-urgent-action-on-pitiful-food-parcels/>forfree school lunches <https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/january/no-such-thing-as-a-free-lunch>,fish <https://bylinetimes.com/2021/01/22/i-was-taken-along-on-the-ride-fishing-merchants-regret-at-voting-leave-after-brexit-ruins-his-business-almost-overnight/>have been rotting on the docks and seafood lorries have parkednear Downing Street <https://news.sky.com/story/brexit-shellfish-lorries-park-near-downing-street-as-new-rules-cause-severe-delays-at-eu-border-12191385>. Fish are easy prey for nationalists, as Rees-Mogg’sunfunny joke <https://www.theguardian.com/politics/video/2021/jan/14/jacob-rees-mogg-fish-british-happier-because-brexit-video>in the Commons last month demonstrates; but fish and chips, Great Britain’s national dish, exempted from rationing by Churchill, was a mealbrought to England <https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/who-invented-fish-and-chips>by Jewish refugees in the late Victorian period, melding Jewish and Catholic observance on Fridays.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2021/february/on-profiteering



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