Remembering Big Mouth Billy Bass

(via mental_floss)  A Cracker Barrel in Manassas, Virginia sold 400 in three days. Queen Elizabeth kept one on top of her piano. One woman tried to take out a second mortgage on her house so she could buy hundreds, load them in a trailer, and drive across the country selling her inventory at a markup. For a very brief period of time in 2000, the world seemed to be awed by a motorized large mouth fish singing “Take Me to the River.” His name: Big Mouth Billy Bass.  Read more about the brief fishy fad at mental_floss.