144: No Such Thing As Garlic Superman

No Such Thing As A Fish

Arts, Nature, History, Science, Improv, Comedy

4.8 • 17.9K Ratings

🗓️ 16 December 2016

⏱️ 35 minutes

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Dan, James, Andy and Alex discuss historical ham sandwiches, edible passwords and why Jupiter is shrinking.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast coming
0:20.0	to you from the QI offices in Covern Garden.
0:22.9	My name is Dan Shriver and I am sitting here with James Harkin, Alex Bell and Andrew
0:27.4	Hunter Murray and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite
0:31.6	facts from the last seven days and in a particular order, here we go.
0:36.4	Starting with you, Andy Murray.
0:39.2	My fact is that in 1851 all of the 436,800 sandwiches sold on the streets of London were
0:46.9	ham.
0:47.9	Just ham sandwiches.
0:49.9	That's so obviously not true.
0:52.2	I can get it.
0:55.2	Was it just ham or did they have ham and pickle or ham and mustard or?
0:58.5	Add some mustard.
0:59.5	Okay.
1:00.5	Had other sandwiches been invented at that point and they thought we don't actually like
1:04.1	those will stick with ham.
1:05.1	I think they have because I think they had cheese sandwiches because we've said before
1:07.4	on this podcast these people called bread and meat or bread and cheese.
1:10.1	Yeah.
1:11.1	So I'll tell you basically ham sandwiching was a thing as in you didn't have a sandwich
1:15.4	shop.
1:16.4	You would be a sandwich seller and you have your own ham and you would boil it and then
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