College fraternities in the 1920s thought goldfish were fine live table fare.
Sometimes you eat the slug, sometimes the slug eats you.
Fair Dinkum.
I remember the old Candid Camera in which a man walks into a pet shop, plunges his hand in the fish tank, grabs a gold fish, plops it into his mouth and swallows it.
The reaction of people around was great!
Then they told the truth. The “goldfish” was actually a piece of thin carrot palmed in the hand.
Wonder when the tank had been cleaned last.
In the 20’s????? How about the 60’s??????
On a dare from frat bros, I put a goldfish in my beer bottle and drank it down.........still here at 73 - by the grace of God.......