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To: Red Badger

That is a good list of new world edibles we take for granted today.

Romans would have eaten: beans, olives, peas, salads, onions, and brassicas (cabbage), meat, fish, vegetables, eggs, cheese, grains [wheat, millet, rye, oats, prepared as porridge & bread) and legumes. Meats like dormice (an expensive delicacy), hare, snails and boar. Smaller birds like thrushes were eaten as well as chickens and pheasants, clams, oysters (often farmed), octopus and most sea fish. Apples, pears, grapes, quince and pomegranate were common. Cherries, oranges, dates, lemons and oranges, honey, hard and soft cheeses.

see also: hard and soft cheeses

And don’t forget wine and beer to drink. I’m not sure about distilled spirits.


29 posted on 12/29/2020 12:59:35 PM PST by GreyFriar (Spearhead - 3rd Armored Division 75-78 & 83-87)
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To: GreyFriar

There are more, I just listed the most common that people would recognize.................


30 posted on 12/29/2020 1:05:39 PM PST by Red Badger ( “The goal of socialism is communism.”... Vladimir Lenin)
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