[SJackson]

Rum would be good. Wonder what they served at this tavern in Pompeii? Did they have a bartender as good as AOC?

Looks like a bathroom to me, but they say it's a tavern.

[SJackson]

Maybe this is the tavern, I wasn't there back then and personally don't remember a building called a tavern today.

[Veto!]

Been to Pompei. Volcano still spewing smoke. Will it erupt again?
Worry
Worry
Worry

[Flaming Conservative]

Nah. It’s a bathroom...unless there are a bunch of urns or kegs that fit in those holes. To think that despite being invented thousands of years ago, widespread use of indoor plumbing is a relatively new phenomenon, even in the USA.

[hinckley buzzard]

Yes, the circular openings along the bar were for the large jugs of wine from which it was dipped for customers. Pompeii had a bar on just about every corner, as befits a prosperous resort community that liked to party.

[WKUHilltopper]

Looks like a shitter to me.

[Big Red Badger]

Vomitorium?

[BenLurkin]

That’s a fast food place. The circles held containers of chow for sale.

[gleeaikin]

Maybe it’s a vomitorium so when they drank and ate too much there was a hole to spew it. Regarding 70,000 years ago, there were 3 major eruptions in a little over 2 million years: 2.2M, 1.3M and 600,000 years ago. I also read there have been about 70 lesser eruptions since the most recent mega-eruption. The lesser eruptions have NOT spread ash over more than half the US. My father wrote a book about the “next” big one. It needs serious rewriting but had a lot of factually based conjecture about survival and the like. Some day I might edit/rewrite it.