No Such Thing As A 200m Baguette is the 295th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 35th episode of the sixth year, and the 46th episode of 2019. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, Anna Ptaszynski, and Dan Schreiber, and was recorded at the Wilbur Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts.
Description[]
Live from Boston, Dan, James, Anna and Andy discuss Bastard baguettes Saddam Hussein's campaign song, and the first ever criminal to be put in Boston's stocks.
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Facts[]
- The first criminal in Boston to be sent to the stocks was the man who had built the stocks. He was found guilty of overcharging for the building of the stocks. (Schreiber)
- Five of the main types of French baguette are called flute, ficelle, Viennois, sarmentine and bastard. (Murray)
- Whitney Houston's record label once sent a cease and desist letter to Saddam Hussein asking him to stop using the song I Will Always Love You as part of his political campaign. (Ptaszynski)
- In 1898 a Boston magazine described the game of croquet as "a source of slumbering depravity. a veritable Frankenstein's monster of recreation". (Harkin)
Trivia[]
- This is the first stop on the US Tour.
- This is the first live show in North America or the USA, and the first in Massachusetts or Boston.
- A mashup of the Fish theme song with the American national anthem is played - although it is different to the one used for the No Such Thing As The News: US Election Special.
- Murray prefaces the first fact with an audience fact about Boston's laws concerning the American national anthem.
- Boston's unusual laws were a headline fact in Episode 236: No Such Thing As A Brie Sculpture.
- Parisian bakers having to organise their holidays was also mentioned in Episode 260: No Such Thing As A Giant War Sausage.