Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast coming to you from the QI offices in Covent Garden.
My name is Dan Schreiber, and I am sitting here with James Harkin, Alex Bell, and Andrew Hunter Murray.
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 Murray.
My fact is that in 1851, all of the 436,800 sandwiches sold on the streets of London were ham.
Just ham sandwiches.
Just ham sandwiches.
That's so obviously not true.
Well, I think it is.
Was it just ham?
Or did they have like ham and pickle or ham and mustard?
Had some mustard.
Okay.
Had other sandwiches been invented at that point, and they thought we don't actually like those, we'll stick with ham.
I think they have, because I think they had cheese sandwiches,
because we've said before on this podcast, they used to be called bread and meat or bread and cheese.
So I'll tell you, basically, ham sandwiching was a thing, as in,
you didn't have a sandwich shop, you would be a sandwich seller,