No Such Thing As 'Of Quails and Men' is the 318th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 6th episode of the seventh year, and the 17th episode of 2020. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and guest Greg Jenner. It was recorded from home due to COVID-19.
Description[]
James, Anna, Andy & Historian Greg Jenner discuss forks, eggs, ants, and why American audiences can be a little too Kean.
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Facts[]
- In 1825 Britain's most famous actor was nearly murdered by his own furious audience. (Jenner)
- It wasn't until 1913 that we finally figured out how to stop our food tasting like our cutlery. (Ptaszynski)
- Ants have a special stomach which is just to contain food to throw up into the mouths of other ants. (Murray)
- Ancient Egyptians had artificial egg incubators, but they didn't have thermometers, so they measured the temperature of the eggs by holding them to their eyelids. (Harkin)
Trivia[]
- This is the fifth Working From Home episode due to the Coronavirus pandemic.
- Regular host Dan Schreiber is absent.
- In his absence, Anna Ptaszynski hosts.
- Greg Jenner guests, making his third appearance on Fish.
- Jenner is promoting his book Dead Famous.
- Ptaszynski mentions William Hazlitt, who was part of a headline fact in Episode 198: No Such Thing As Cleopatra Movie Trivia.
- Some of Philip Massinger's plays were lost because his cook used them as baking paper when making pies. Joseph Haydn's wife did the same thing with many of his musical scores, which was a headline fact in Episode 259: No Such Thing As Flyagra.
- Pliny the Elder has been mentioned in many episodes for his unusual remedies, and his mention of Indian ants "the size of foxes" was brought up in TBA.
- Harkin mentions regurgitators from the previous episode, human ostritches, and sword-swallowing from TBA.