Hello, and welcome to another episode of No Such Thing as a Fish,
a weekly podcast this week coming to you from Morrigan!
My name is Dan Schreiber, and I am sitting here with Anna Chazinski,
Drew Hunter 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, James Harkin.
OK, my fact this week is that in 1766, there was a cheese riot in Nottingham,
where the mayor of Nottingham was knocked over by a large cheese.
So was the cheese rioting?
How did that work?
So what it was is, I mean, I'm preaching to people who know all about this in Nottingham, I'm sure.
But this was a goose fair, you all know what the goose fair is, right?
And basically,
things became tense when some rude lads engaged several Lincolnshire traders who had purchased up to sixty-hundred of cheese.
These aren't my words, by the way, I'm reading.
And basically,
what they didn't want to happen is that those nasty people from Lincoln should come and get all the cheese,
and then there's no cheese for people from Nottingham.
So then that kind of started a bit of a riot,
and then suddenly there were crowds running around, they were grabbing cheeses and rolling them down the streets.