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The earliest use of it I'm aware of is by "Trapper" (a.k.a. Dr. John McIntyre, a character in the first few seasons of M*A*S*H*) saying it in an early MASH episode. Bismarck actually is a type of Herring (a fish), or a type of Herring dish anyway. I think the same expression is used in the Woody Allen movie "Love and Death". If it is indeed "an expression" and people aren't just quoting the line from MASH, I suspect it probably arose among among Jewish immigrants around the turn of the last century. It sounds like that sort humor (le.g. something a Jew might say instead of "Is the Pope Catholic?").
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