Good to see that Tesco are encouraging traditional fishing practices. Many may have no idea the trade existed.
As it happens, I come from a long line of Cromer Cakers, who put out to sea in their small boats in all weathers to catch the elusive fishcake. Of course, back then there was no technology to detect the shoals and no Russian factory cakers stripping the sea floor of everything in their path, breadcrumbs and all.
Instead, small shelters were dug into the top of Gunton Cliffs. Known as cakeholes, it was here where the fishcake huers watched the far horizon for hours for any signs of foam flecking from swirling shoals of potatoes and parsley that heralded the arrival of the first spring catch. On spotting a likely candidate, the huer raised the hue and cry by shouting with all their might. Then, pausing only to shut their cakehole, they ran down to the beach to join their fellow fishermen going out to sea.
The trade was doomed, of course. With the principal customer being school canteens, the packed lunch was its death knell.
I see that Tesco also sells outdoor reared pork sausages. Now I'm no expert on these but I know they do cause havoc when they escape their pens.
