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Plenty of abandoned taverns in inhabited cities in the modern world. Owners die or suffer financial or social death, businesses become too unprofitable to run i
by notahacker 4y ago
Plenty of abandoned taverns in inhabited cities in the modern world. Owners die or suffer financial or social death, businesses become too unprofitable to run in parts of cities where the land also isn't worth much, structures start looking alarmingly unstable and aren't worth repairing etc etc.
And regardless of how long bits of the food are preserved for future archaeologists, a couple of days after the tavern's closed most of it isn't really edible any more...
- pbhjpbhj 4y agoYou'd expect scavengers to get the food: rodents, insects, etc.? Buildings that fall into disrepair tend to be scavenged by humans for materials too. Much moreso anywhere there's wealth disparity or resource shortages.
- AlotOfReading 4y agoYou'd be surprised. It depends heavily on the prevailing social mores. Besides, much of what archaeologists recover is the stuff that survived, not the 99% that didn't.
- giantg2 4y agoNotice that they didn't find any beer or wine. It seems the important stuff got scavenged.
- einherjae 4y agoPresumably just the eras equivalent of Hákarl or Surströmming was left, alongside the pizza-with-pineapple equivalent and Dr. Pepper-equivalent.
- nick123567 4y agoIn archaeological terms, they could be discovering stuff like microscopic grain husks embedded into the clay of the containers. Though they could have found whole chicken skeletons or fossilized garlic or something else too... I searched for a moment but couldn't find more details from this dig about the food specifically.
- lproven 4y ago> Plenty of abandoned taverns in inhabited cities in the modern world. This is a key plot point of the excellent novel Pirate Cinema by Cory Doctorow. Highly recommended. Free ebook download from the author's site, here: https://craphound.com/pc/download/ https://craphound.com/pc/download/