2014-06-15
12 分钟Hello and welcome to another episode of no such thing as a fish presents the world cup of facts This is the only world cup podcast out there that makes absolutely no mention of football whatsoever brought to you by the qi elves in Association with visitingland.com.
My name is Dan Schreiber.
I'm sitting here with James Harkin and a Chazinsky and Andy Murray And today's match is France versus Honduras France okay,
um, I found a nice number of silly named places.
Oh,
France always love a silly name place So there are six places in France called silly 13 called Billy and A place called Pratt,
which is great.
There's also pissy corny punchy misery messy and pussy French seven dwarfs.
Yeah Potatoes were illegal in France between 1748 and 1772 What happened you weren't allowed to grow them people thought
that they were very bad for your health and then a great hero chemist Called Antoine Augustin parmentier is the man who rehabilitated them and said actually they are okay.
He said this is nonsense Yeah, this is fine.
I think bits of them can be harmful, but if you eat the actual potato bit,
you're generally all right Oh, so they thought they were actually harmful.
It wasn't just yeah atkins of the early No,
they thought they made you very ill and in the 16th century France women were forbidden
for eating artichokes Because they were thought to be aphrodisiacs.
Wow.
Wow a lot of food banning going on Yeah, that's a lot of good Kings France Charles the mad.
He was one of the best wasn't he Charles the sixth who?
Ruled in the 15th century.