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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Kurtr" data-source="post: 359410" data-attributes="member: 194">Other than the goldfish gulping incident of 39 i think they are a safe bet.  Not so much for the person cleaning the toilet the next day<h3>1939: The Year of Goldfish Gulping</h3><a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/author/amelia-meyer/" target="_blank">AMELIA MEYER</a>FEBRUARY 9, 20122more free articles this monthAlready a subscriber? <a href="https://accounts.theatlantic.com/login/" target="_blank">Sign in</a>Thank you for reading The Atlantic.Enjoy unlimited access to all of our journalism.<a href="https://accounts.theatlantic.com/products?source=nudge1" target="_blank">Subscribe Now</a><ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Link Copied</li> </ul><img src="https://cdn.theatlantic.com/media/mt/food/assets_c/2012/02/6a00e553a80e1088340148c78c4c39970c-800wi-thumb-215x404-77488.gif" alt="6a00e553a80e1088340148c78c4c39970c-800wi.gif" class="fr-fic fr-dii fr-draggable " style="" />It started out with one. One live goldfish, swallowed up by a Harvard freshman on a dare. Three weeks later it rose to three, and four days after that it jumped to 24. By the end of April 1939, the record for the number of goldfish swallowed stood at 101. Students at colleges across the country -- the University of Michigan, Boston College, New Mexico State, among others -- had popularized a quest to see how many goldfish a single person could eat in one sitting.</blockquote>