So the ingredients are
fish
salt
egg whites
ice
sugars
natural fish-based coloring
That’s it? Sounds pretty good actually
If that were still true I would still eat them.
I was a relatively early adopter in the US. In the early 70s the product sold here in the US looked more like that shown in the first picture. It was a sort of ribbed fish meat paper rolled up to create texture and was made of pollock.
Over the years the texturing disappeared and most products are a mealy extruded fish wad. The sugar was swapped out for one of the non-nutritive toxins. Then much of the fish was replaced by potato starch and a bunch of different aquatic life was added meaning you never knew what flavor you were buying.
It was no longer the enjoyable snack and when you cooked with it you could convince your palate was the real thing if you wanted to. Now its a slimy coated mealy potato dumpling that tastes little better than the floating carcass along the bank smells.
If one of you do have a chance to get back to the 70s or early 80s , please bring some of the real stuff back for me too.