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Pompeii ‘fast food’ bar unearthed in ancient city after 2,000 years
UK Guardian ^ | March 27, 2019 | Amgela Giuffrida

Posted on 04/01/2019 8:38:46 AM PDT by C19fan

A well-preserved frescoed “fast food” counter is among the latest discoveries unearthed by archaeologists in the ancient Roman city of Pompeii.

The 150 or so thermopolia, or snack bars, dotted across the city were mostly used by the poorer residents, who rarely had cooking facilities in their home, to grab a snack or drink. Typical menus included coarse bread with salty fish, baked cheese, lentils and spicy wine.

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TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; History; Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: bakedcheese; coarsebread; dietandcuisine; garum; godsgravesglyphs; lentils; liquamen; pompeii; roman; romanempire; saltyfish; seafood; spicywine; thermopolia
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To: C19fan

41 posted on 04/01/2019 9:05:31 AM PDT by Vaquero (Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you . They)
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To: C19fan

MM’s and MM’s sold.


42 posted on 04/01/2019 9:06:15 AM PDT by Karliner (Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28 Isa 17 "This is the end of the beginning" W Churchill)
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To: LibWhacker
kip·per1 /ˈkipər/ verb past tense: kippered; past participle: kippered cure (a herring or other fish) by splitting it open and salting and drying it in the open air or in smoke.
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Ah so... In those days, they didn't have refrigeration. Preservation was often accomplished by salting. I guess I should've said I never add salt to any fish I eat because it always seems to make it too salty for me.

43 posted on 04/01/2019 9:06:47 AM PDT by LibWhacker
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To: Tolerance Sucks Rocks

“Just the thing for those times when you’re on the run from a pyroclastic flow.”

“HOT STUFF COMIN’ THRU!”


44 posted on 04/01/2019 9:07:13 AM PDT by equaviator
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To: seawolf101

I never thought an image of a woman dancing on a bar could be so unsexy


45 posted on 04/01/2019 9:07:21 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: wally_bert
VII-XI?

Open XXIV-VII

46 posted on 04/01/2019 9:08:17 AM PDT by rjsimmon (The Tree of Liberty Thirsts)
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To: NFHale

Yeah, but their lattes were just too hot.


47 posted on 04/01/2019 9:08:30 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: LibWhacker
The McDonald's of their day? Wouldn't fly today, though. Wonder what kind of salty fish they were serving? I never put salt on my fish. Always seems to ruin it, no matter how little I add.

Dried salt cod (and other types of fish) have been on the menu for thousands of years and are still widely consumed today, particularly in Southern Italy, Portugal, Spain, Scandinavia, Scotland, Iceland, Canada, and ethnic neighborhoods in the USA.

48 posted on 04/01/2019 9:08:48 AM PDT by Labyrinthos
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To: Army Air Corps

lol!!


49 posted on 04/01/2019 9:09:44 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know if.. Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR)
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To: dp0622

That is a better image than the mental image of Hillary doing the same thing.


50 posted on 04/01/2019 9:10:27 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: C19fan
Was this the first use of the slogan "Make a run for the border?"

-PJ

51 posted on 04/01/2019 9:12:06 AM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: C19fan

The ancient Romans banned Chick-Fil-A. Too Christian.


52 posted on 04/01/2019 9:13:19 AM PDT by SkyPilot ("I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me." John 14:6)
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To: RitchieAprile
A few years ago I saw a show about ancient Roman life describing multistory apartment bulidings, and “take away” restaurants with a surviving recipe that sounded similar to a hamburger. The host explained how taxis had a meter than was driven off the axle, and allowed a ball to drop with every revolution (probably geared down so it wasn’t every turn of the axle). At the end of the trip the driver counted the balls to calculate the fare.

I think it was this show:

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt2014367/?ref_=nm_flmg_wr_10

53 posted on 04/01/2019 9:13:22 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: C19fan

“Over MM sold.”


54 posted on 04/01/2019 9:13:34 AM PDT by Rocky
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Safe to assume calling your food stall “Little Caesers” would not fly.


55 posted on 04/01/2019 9:14:51 AM PDT by C19fan
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To: SoCal Pubbie

Thanks to this thread, I have the Roman part of History of the World Part I in my head.


56 posted on 04/01/2019 9:15:17 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: C19fan

Was one owned by a guy named Falafel?

- “Hercules: The Legendary Journeys” reference.


57 posted on 04/01/2019 9:15:21 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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To: C19fan

I think that restaurant would have a sign out front prohibiting knives...


58 posted on 04/01/2019 9:15:56 AM PDT by Army Air Corps (Four Fried Chickens and a Coke)
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To: PLMerite

With that menu there isn’t much for salmonella to live on other than lentils which would have been boiled I am guessing.


59 posted on 04/01/2019 9:17:00 AM PDT by Pontiac (The welfare state must fail because it is contrary to human nature and diminishes the human spirit)
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To: Army Air Corps

I sometimes picture if she lived back then her whispering to a Roman soldier “Hey. The guy who looks like Kirk Douglas is Spartacus.”


60 posted on 04/01/2019 9:19:15 AM PDT by Hillarys Gate Cult
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