QI, Series G

[On the legend of Romans vomiting in order to be able to carry on eating]

Alan Davies:
People definitely did that in pubs when I was growing up.

Stephen Fry:
They threw up in order to drink more?

Alan Davies:
Yeah. Go outside, be sick on the pavement, shake their heads, go straight back to the bar.

Phill Jupitus:
Oh yeah, the tactical chunder. Totally.

Alan Davies:
Yeah. "I feel terrible. I'm gonna have to go and have a tactical chunder." Come back five minutes later: "I'm fine now!"

Stephen Fry:
Hmm. Makes sense.

Alan Davies:
Makes sense. Four quids worth of bitter in the gutter and carry on.