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To: robowombat
Nooooooooooooo...the "bread" in the "BREAD AND CIRCUSES" saying is about what was FREE/what the government gave out to the poor and lower classes.

Ancient Romans of higher classes ate meat...the flesh of fowls, fish, and animals; though not as much of the latter! I've seen ancient cookery recipes, from ancient Roman times and they ate things like dormice, various cuts of pork, and chicken, with unsparing amounts of ghastly garum, which is a stinking ( as it smelled to high heaven )fermented fish sauce, made from fish innards, heads, tails, and stuff like that.

15 posted on 01/22/2019 11:33:01 PM PST by nopardons
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To: nopardons

It’s amusing that the authors of a couple of those Roman recipe books of modern times are surname “Brothwell”. ;^)


21 posted on 01/22/2019 11:38:26 PM PST by SunkenCiv (and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
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To: nopardons

#15. The foods you listed for the lower classes sounded like what we had to eat our first year of college. I wondered why they claimed it was “food for the gods” until I realized that I was going to TEMPLE University.


29 posted on 01/22/2019 11:50:29 PM PST by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: nopardons
Garum is still eaten today. Mam Nem.



It isn't bad in tiny quantities but smelling the bottle will make you wretch and dry heave (Wet heave for some people) It is not for the faint of heart. Think liquid Surströmming on steroids. It packs a massive umami punch. A 1/2 teaspoon in six quarts of chili is perfect.
31 posted on 01/23/2019 12:19:41 AM PST by LesbianThespianGymnasticMidget (TRUMP TRAIN !!! Get the hell out of the way if you are not on yet because we don't stop for idiots)
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