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 Shriver, I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski, Andrew Hunts and Murray and James Harkin,
and once again we have gathered round the microphones with our four favourite 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...
They're not in the bedroom.
No, sorry.
That's disgusting.
But people at home, that was the amazing herring impression.
Good grief.
I mean, if anything, that would be a relief for the adultery commissioners, wouldn't it?
Once the herring flops out, you can really get down to it.
As the old saying goes.
Well, we got there quite quickly, didn't we?
So this is from a book, it's called Herring Tales by an author called Donald Murray.
So this is because herring used to be absolutely enormous.
So in the early 20th century, there were three million barrels coming into Scotland every single year,