No Such Thing As Vegan Fryup is the 44th episode of No Such Thing As A Fish, the 44th episode of the first year, and the 3rd episode of 2015. It features regular presenters James Harkin, Andrew Hunter Murray, and Anna Ptaszynski, and guest QI Elf Anne Miller. It was recorded at the QI Offices in Covent Garden, London.
Description[]
Andy, James, Anna and Anne discuss obscene pottery, seriously bad signal, an Ancient apartment block and Australia's swear box.
Facts[]
- Between 800 and 1349AD the Colosseum was used as an apartment block. (Ptaszynski)
- You can be fined for swearing in Australia. In the last financial year, people in the Northern Territory were fined A$48,372 in total. (Harkin)
- When the first transatlantic telegraph cable was laid in 1858, the reception on it was so bad that it took 17 hours to send the first message across. (Murray)
- In 2014, to celebrate World Vegan Day, PETA asked the town of Fryup, North Yorkshire, to change its name to "Vegan Fryup" for a day. The locals refused. (Miller)
Trivia[]
- Regular host and presenter Dan Schreiber is again absent, so Andrew Hunter Murray hosts and Anne Miller guests.
- This is Miller's seventh appearance on the podcast.
- It is discussed that we don't know how Roman concrete was made. As of Episode 279: No Such Thing As A Backflipping Doctor, we do know.