Hello and welcome to another episode of no Such Thing as a Fish, a weekly podcast this week coming to you live from Auckland.
My name is Dan Schreiber.
I'm sitting here with Anna Tushinsky, Andrew Hunter 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 fact number one, and that is Andy.
My fact is that the German Order of Temperance was founded in 1600 and members had to pledge to drink no more than than 14 glasses of wine a day.
Do you think you find that tough, Anna?
I think so long as that only means, like, before 6pm that's vaguely generous, isn't it?
Yeah, there are a couple of extra rules, but I think you could handle it, Anna.
I think.
I think it would be fine.
So this comes from a 1925 book called the Standard Encyclopedia of the Alcohol Problem.
Just a little light bedside reading for me.
I found in that there was a reference to an 1872 paper.
So all this is quite a way to, you know, the records of the society itself.
Obviously, 400 years ago, not very easy to find, but basically there was terrible drunkenness in the 16th century all over the place.
And the rules of the Temperance Society were, look, firstly, never get drunk.
That's rule one.
Rule two, you can only have seven glasses of wine at a meal.