Hello and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this

week coming to you live from Edinburgh!

My name is Dan Schreiber, I am sitting here with Anacesinsky, Andrew Hunts and Murray

and James Harkin and once again we have gathered around the microphones with our four favorite

facts from the last seven days and in no particular order here we go starting with you Andy.

My fact is that in 18th century Scotland people believed that herring would punish people

for adultery by leaving the area where the adultery had occurred.

This is a genuine statement, they are not in the bedroom.

They are not in the bedroom.

No, it's disgusting.

People at home that was the amazing herring impression.

Good grief.

If anything that would be a relief for the adultery commission, wouldn't it?

Yes true.

Once the herring flops out you can really get down to it.

That's the old saying goes.

Well we got there quite clearly anyway.

So this is from a book, it's called Herring Tales by an author called Donald Murray.

This is because herring used to be absolutely enormous.

In the early 20th century there were three million barrels coming into Scotland every single year

but the thing is they're fickle.

They would frequently appear in massive numbers in one year and then the next year they wouldn't be there anymore.

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