Posted on 03/20/2010 12:08:05 PM PDT by Free ThinkerNY
In AD79 it was Pompeii's most popular hang out, where locals would stop off to meet friends and partake in a snack of baked cheese smothered in honey.
Now, nearly 2000 years after the Italian city was buried under ash and rubble by the devastating eruption of Mount Vesuvius, its favourite snack bar has re-opened.
For the first time the thermopolium, as it is called in Italy, will be open to tourists after having undergone and excavation and restoration process over the past few months. Tomorrow 300 VIPs selected at random will attend an advance opening of the snack bar where they will enjoy a taste of Roman cafe society, including the sweet, calorific treats enjoyed by the all sections of Pompeii society before the city was destroyed.
Pompeii, which is near Naples in the Italian region of Campania, was destroyed, and completely buried, during a catastrophic two-day eruption of the volcano Mount Vesuvius on August 24, 79AD.
The volcano collapsed higher roof-lines and buried Pompeii under many meters of ash and pumice, and it was lost for nearly 1700 years before its accidental rediscovery in 1748.
Since then, its excavation has provided an extraordinarily detailed insight into life during the Roman Empire.
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Eww... LOL!
Dormouse stuffed with minced pork and nuts dried in olive oil.
Or garum, crushed fish guts fremented in brine.
Tasty.
oops fried not dried.
But then again dormouse jerky might be tasty.
We made some garum.
Sort of tasty, like Vietnamese fish sauce but not as sweet.
Smelled like death though but then again people eat oozey stinky cheese.
It took this place 2000 years to reopen? I know it takes awhile to get things done in Italy, but I didn’t it took that long. There must have been some serious red tape!
More interesting than the Lupanare ?
-ccm
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Gee thanks. Now I’m going to cancel those plane tickets.
"Yes, I'll have the deep-fried .... er, nevermind."
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Be careful what you ask for.....
ET TU, MIKE?
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so cool!
Might be bad news for you, but for me, it is WONDERFUL!
Those thieving sons of Punic whores never paid me for that last galley load of cheap vintage Dago red.
With interest and carrying charges; breakage; fees for the loss of the ship, indemnities for....
There’s a really nicely preserved restaurant in ancient Ostia, near Rome, and naturally I can’t seem to turn up an image.
Oh wait... here’s one I think, it’s the wall images that a largely illiterate society (or at best, multilingual) used to see what was on the menu, and to then order it:
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