[SoCal Pubbie]

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

[Army Air Corps]

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

[sloanrb]

Possibly, but it was also covered in the BBC/Discovery series Ancient Inventions with Terry Jones of Monty Python fame. The episode City Life.

Available on YouTube. Recommend watching.

https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKerw4PvCW5VKS-rNLPgh8eHXO5seB4qJ

[gnarledmaw]

In that episode did he talk about a Roman version of McDonalds that used mixed meats, red wine, and pine nuts in its burgers? I might have seen that too.