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The headline makes it sound like they restored the fast food joint and it is going to be serving food to the public.
by Foomf 5y ago
The headline makes it sound like they restored the fast food joint and it is going to be serving food to the public.
- evolve2k 5y agoAgree. Would be awesome for someone to open a replica nearby with close enough food served within.
- tsimionescu 5y agoNot sure about Pompeii specifically but from what I've heard of food in the Roman empire, tastes have changed dramatically since then. I'm afraid a historic restaurant would often be either disgusting or very far from historical. There might exist more common ground, but people in the empire ate things like field mouse.
- pimeys 5y agoI also heard the more esoteric food was something the rich ate, but the food for common people is something that is still served and delicious. https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210719-what-did-the-ancient-romans-eat https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210719-what-did-the-anc...
- inciampati 5y agoIf you enjoy modern foods from all around the world, it's very unlikely that you wouldn't enjoy Roman food. Things have changed since 2kya, but not that much. Although ingredients and tastes have changed somewhat, many of the same food products are used in extremely similar forms in exactly the same region. Not everyone was chasing the complexity of the elite Roman table. And to those who claim that complex flavors like garum are now out of vogue or disgusting, I present the modern equivalent: colatura di alici (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colatura_di_alici https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colatura_di_alici), an ingredient in classic, typical dishes from south Italy. Field mouse sounds tasty. Can't be far from cui.
- black6 5y agoWorcestershire sauce is another garum analogue.
- viggity 5y agoI've had cui (mostly to share pictures). I thought it was good, but idk how field mouse would be. Cui (guinea pig for the uninitiated) has a decent amount of meat on it. Field mice are so tiny, a chicken wing has has to have more meat on it. I'm presuming that when they ate field mice 2000 years ago, they're eating the entire thing with all organs except for maybe the intestines.
- floren 5y agoThe mice were fattened in a special vessel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glirarium https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glirarium) which tricked them into preparing for hibernation, which fattened them up significantly. Still probably not a lot in them.
- Nition 5y agoThe list of foods in the article sounds fine for modern tastes (apart from the snails maybe). I'm sure it would have been prepared very differently, but that never stopped us calling things "Chinese food" etc in the west.
- zeitg3ist 5y agoNot sure what you mean by "modern tastes" but snails are still widely eaten in regional recipes throughout Italy.
- thaumasiotes 5y ago> but that never stopped us calling things "Chinese food" etc in the west. I once collected a quote from a writeup on dailywtf, an aside that went: "I should mention that I mean real Chinese food, not that non-deep-fried stuff they serve over in China." The intended joke, obviously, is on people who think the American label "Chinese food" must reflect something similar to the food they have in China. After spending years in Shanghai, eating local food, seeing the ads in bakery windows for "FRIED COOKIES", I still find the quote funny, but mostly for the idea that they might serve non-fried food in China. There is some, but it is most certainly not the norm.
- dandellion 5y agoHere in Spain at least snails are still very common.
- _0ffh 5y agoYes, also France and parts of Germany.
- wil421 5y agoLots of nicer places serve snails where I am in the Southern US. You can buy cans of them at the grocery and all you need is the shells to serve them in. A little garlic and parsley butter is all you need.
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- Ichthypresbyter 5y agoDormice not fieldmice- and I think they still eat those in parts of Central Europe, particularly Slovenia and Croatia.
- otto2 5y agoIt might be. However, I am from these parts of the world, and never heard of it.
- Gravityloss 5y agoThey have those Roman fast food joint ruins on Via Appia too. Highly recommending the aqueduct bike tour. Someone really should build a replica.
- Bjorkbat 5y agoWhat a shame, I was really hoping to get drunk on spicy wine and eat a bunch of snails and baked cheese.
- kyleee 5y agoDon't you dare tempt me with a good time
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- leadingthenet 5y ago…that sounds absolutely delicious?
- rossdavidh 5y agoI kept reading through, waiting for the "and now they will serve food here" part, until about one paragraph before the end.
- mseidl 5y agoI'd like some fossilized pizza please.
- SideburnsOfDoom 5y ago> fossilized pizza It's here: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/07/07/ancient-bread/ https://www.thevintagenews.com/2018/07/07/ancient-bread/ https://museum-of-artifacts.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-carbonised-loaf-of-bread-from-pompeii.html https://museum-of-artifacts.blogspot.com/2018/05/a-carbonise... You joke, but the ovens in Pompeii (pictured at link above) look a lot like the wood-fired pizza domes down the road in Naples. The Romans could have made flatbread with cheese, herbs and fish or meat bits on it. But no tomatoes until they came back from the Americas in the 1500s. https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/noodles/2018/07/03/history-of-the-tomato-in-italy-and-china-tracing-the-role-of-tomatoes-in-italian-and-chinese-cooking/ https://scholarblogs.emory.edu/noodles/2018/07/03/history-of...
- bruce343434 5y agoTypical archeology journalism.
- mbostleman 5y agoThat was exactly what I expected.
- vanderZwan 5y agoIt wouldn't be the same without Terry Jones narrating it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiCv-JfyOMk&t=430s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iiCv-JfyOMk&t=430s