During the second epirrhematic agon of Aristophanes’ Knights, the Sausage Seller delivers a laudatory retrospective of Themistocles’ political career, framed through culinary metaphor (vv. 814-816). This study seeks to decode the metaphorical language employed, with the aim of identifying the specific historical allusion underlying the expression ἰχθῦς καινούς (v. 816), for which a new interpretation is proposed.