[strela]

Excavations in the county have shown the dish of the day 2,000 years ago was freshly-grilled hare and stuffed dormice.

The first "bubble and squeak" in ancient Britain?

[I still care]

The Romans used a salty fish sauce called liquemen. They used it on everything.

They also were great combiners of ingredients, considering it a great compliment if you couldn't tell what you were eating.

[ModernDayCato]

For some reason all I could think of is the scene in Scrooged where Lumpy tells the stage hand to staple antlers on the dormouse.

[Aliska]

They didn't eat tomatoes, potatoes, squash, corn, chocolate nor did they eat chocolate.

What else didn't they eat?

[LibWhacker]

Yummy!

[Cicero]

In Rome they ate peacocks' tongues. I don't know if they could afford them in Londinium.

[FreedomCalls]

Let's remember that Rome existed in a world that had not yet discovered the Americas. Lots of the foods that we know and love today were found in America and were unknown in Europe before 1492. Basic foods like tomatoes, potatoes, beans, corn, chili peppers, chocolate, squash, peanuts, and vanilla -- and many others. Imagine Italian cooking without the tomato! They ate a lot of game meat, bread, cabbages, carrots, and onions.

[TheSpottedOwl]

Excavations in the county have shown the dish of the day 2,000 years ago was freshly-grilled hare and stuffed dormice.

WE'RE GONNA HAVE ROAST RABBIT! Elmer Fudd....

[djf]

A lot of people probably have a distaste for eating rats or mice. But I imagine if they were farmed, they could be quite tasty. When I was young, lived on a farm, plagued by pigeons. Outside there was a round wire corn silo we'd put full ears of corn in. The pigeons were on that silo, day in and day out. I popped four of em one day with my .22, cleaned em, mom cooked them, they were incredible! Not much wing, but breasts like a turkey. Fine delicacy in some parts of the world.

[jordan8]

The basic food of Romans was wheat, usually boiled as a porridge and flavored with a wide variety of things, both sweet and savory (more usually the latter). Most Romans had only a charcoal brazier in their rooms for heat and minor cooking and took their food to a bakery or other such shop to be cooked, or bought it there.

[SunkenCiv]

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[RichInOC]

Okay, they ate dormice and hares. How about hatters?