This food described by Shakespeare in The Tempest was part of provisions aboard ships.
Slumgullion
Poor John
Salmagundi
Lobscouse
Poor John. In the U.S., this salted and dried fish was also known as Cape Cod turkey. In Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare had the character of Gregory say, "’Tis well thou art not fish; if thou hadst, thou hadst been poor-John," the cheapest form of dried fish.