No Such Thing As A Quintruple-Cooked Chip is the 291st episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 31st episode of the sixth year, and the 42nd episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.
Description[]
Dan, James, Anna and Andrew discuss marrying chips, geese-rearing astronauts and the restaurant with tables in two different countries.
Facts[]
- One of the women about to take part in the first all-female spacewalk has spent the last eight years hand-rearing a flock of geese. (Ptaszynski)
- The Netherlands has a restaurant where if you move tables there is a chance you'll end up in Belgium. (Murray)
- In order to stop drought an Indian village married two frogs. Two months later they had to be divorced because it wouldn't stop raining. (Schreiber)
- Sainsbury's sells triple-cooked chips which you then have to cook. (Harkin)
Trivia[]
- Schreiber mentions Apollo 13, which he said was his favourite film in Episode 75 and Episode 128.
- Ptaszynski mentions the Peace Village just across the North Korean border from TBA.
- Harkin says that the married frogs don't even know they're frogs.
- Harkin's fact came via QI Elf Mat Coward, who was previously mentioned in Episode 268: No Such Thing As Welsh Guinness.
- Harkin watched The Spacewalker in Moscow. Alexei Leonov, the subject of the film, was sat right in front of him at the theatre.
- Schreiber mentions a guest from The Museum of Curiosity who worked discovering new types of potato.
- Copyrighting plant species has been discussed in TBA.
- Ptaszynski mentions the campaigns against saturated fat that were discussed in TBA.
- Ptaszynski points out several instances of nominative determinism.