[dware]

PinGGG!

[2ndDivisionVet]

Gladiators were troublesome slaves, but someone thought they’d have a Patrician diet? Huh?

[stormer]

[USMCPOP]

Beans-and-cornbread!

[Hugin]

“You’d figure a typical Roman gladiator to be a real meat-and-potatoes guy, right?”

Considering potatoes didn’t arrive in the old world from South America until the 16th century, no.

[prisoner6]

>>>>>>gladiators from the city of Ephesus

Everybody knows they were the nancy boys of the empire. Couldn’t even hold a small flask of decent scotch.

[dfwgator]

What did the cannibal roman say when he killed his mother-in-law?

“I’m glad he ate her”

Thank you, I’ll be here all week, try the veal.

[Telepathic Intruder]

I figure they ate whatever they were given.

[Dr. Sivana]

I assumed they ate this stuff ... not too far off.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

I’m still waiting to hear the “One weird trick the gladiators used to win.”

[SkyDancer]

I was just wondering: How would gladiator’s have played football back then ....

[dainbramaged]

A recent documentary said the gladiator's diet was mainly a grain based gruel, and plenty of it - they apparently liked to put on a layer of fat which helped to absorb some of the combat strikes. It probably didn't help if one is on the ground, waiting for the big shot's thumb.
Most gladiators were slaves, but not all - the better known ones had fan clubs and some type of trading cards, like baseball players today.

[martin_fierro]

[Billthedrill]

reports at the time referred to gladiators as "hordearii," or "barley eaters," possibly meaning that they ate lower-quality grain than other people.

Yeah...because that's (uuuuurp!) the only way you can get barley into yer diet...

[dangerdoc]

Grain powered the empire, school kids used to know this.

[AEMILIUS PAULUS]

Gladiators were part of a business and meat was expensive, hence very little meat was served them.

[katana]

I remember from high school Latin class as we were reading Caesar’s commentaries on the Gallic Wars that everybody in class was a little shocked about the legionnaires complaining when they had to eat meat when grain supplies ran short. A diet heavy on animal fats and proteins was considered barbaric. Their protein came mainly from fish and fowl (although roasted door mouse was a nice little gourmet appetizer). The Roman staple was always wheat or some other grain (barley) in a pinch. Bread riots resulted when supplies of wheat from Egypt were interrupted by politics or pirates.

[Brother Cracker]

[mass55th]

Must be where Moochelle got her school lunch plan from.

[Noob1999]

Of course they were poking around the boneyard of the losers.

I wonder what the winners of the contests were eating??