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[from January 3, 2014] Giraffe Was on Menu in Pompeii Restaurants
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| January 3, 2014
| Rossella Lorenzi
Posted on 07/02/2015 8:13:32 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
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Image: A street restaurant in Pompeii. Credit Rossella Lorenzi
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07/02/2015 8:13:32 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
With neck bone meat for 300 diners.
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07/02/2015 8:16:22 PM PDT
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ButThreeLeftsDo
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To: ButThreeLeftsDo
The sub buns must have been awe-inspiring.
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07/02/2015 8:17:18 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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07/02/2015 8:19:16 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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07/02/2015 8:21:09 PM PDT
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bramps
Gladiator [2000] scene -- Proximo Gets a Slight Return on His Investment
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07/02/2015 8:21:45 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: SunkenCiv
Just got back from a visit there - it’s quite amazing how well people lived back then - they had indoor plumbing, central heating, beautiful homes with artwork and wonderful atria. And it wasn’t just one or two, but many. It just had the feel of an affluent place.
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07/02/2015 8:26:38 PM PDT
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aquila48
To: SunkenCiv
When I read Claudius they had a feast for Caligula and brought some frozen strange animal from the ice and had it for dinner. Sounded very much like they were eating a mammoth.
In Pompeii everything was on the menu;) Frankly, I’m surprised there was no hue and cry it was God who destroyed the city with Vesuvius.
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07/02/2015 8:27:22 PM PDT
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Beowulf9
To: SunkenCiv
I would try it.
I love the neck of a turkey but, I could nosh on that thing a few weeks...
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07/02/2015 8:30:56 PM PDT
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Vendome
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To: bramps
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07/02/2015 8:32:50 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: aquila48
Pompeii had a population of 11,000. I only saw a dozen or so of those huge villa town homes. That is not many affluent homes for a population that size. Most people lived in second story two room flats, granted those flats had water.
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07/02/2015 8:34:22 PM PDT
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central_va
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To: SunkenCiv
Giraffe’s good eatin’!
It’s that leafy diet of theirs!
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07/02/2015 8:37:23 PM PDT
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BradyLS
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foods which included exotic and imported spices, some from as far away as IndonesiaThose About To Die
Chapter XII
by Daniel P. Mannix
There were also man-sized apes called tityrus with round faces, reddish color and whiskers. Pictures of them appear on vases and they were apparently orangutans, imported from Indonesia. As far as I know, the Romans never exhibited gorillas although these biggest of all apes were known to the Phoenicians, who gave them their present name which means "hairy savage."
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07/02/2015 8:38:22 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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Could make a *lot* of jerky from a giraffe.
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07/02/2015 8:40:24 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: Beowulf9
There’s an FR topic about that, of course. ;’)
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07/02/2015 8:40:55 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: BradyLS
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07/02/2015 8:41:11 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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07/02/2015 8:47:44 PM PDT
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wildbill
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To: aquila48
Sounds great! It was a major place to live -- at its peak the Roman Empire had something a little north of 50 million people in it, and many more were trying to live in it. At the same time India was booming, as was Han China. Life was as good or better then than it is in a lot of places today.
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07/02/2015 8:50:56 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: wildbill
Paper buckets would be impractical.
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07/02/2015 8:51:29 PM PDT
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SunkenCiv
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To: aquila48
The Romans were ahead of the rest of the world by nearly 2,000 years.
People in New York City circa 1850 didn't live as well as Romans did around 1 A.D.
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