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Romans simply didn't eat dogs if there were other sources of food around. If they would have, chances are we still would do it today.
by KeplerBoy 3y ago
Romans simply didn't eat dogs if there were other sources of food around.
If they would have, chances are we still would do it today.
- kragen 3y agoit is true, as far as i know, that we have no records of the romans eating dogs but nothing about the romans is simple there are many foods the romans commonly ate (in rome, during at least some of its near-millennium of culinary change) that few or none of their modern descendants do. these include silphium, garum, liquamen, mallow leaves, marinated sow udders, peacock, flamingo, emmer, lamprey, lamprey semen, sea urchins, bitter vetch, dormice, azerole, open-arse, and raisin wine; most of these were considered delicacies, which is how we know about the romans eating them at all we do know that the romans did ritually sacrifice dogs in rome, and they claim that the oscans (another italic people) roasted dogs as part of a ritual sacrifice, so romans eating dogs, even in rome, seems plausible to me moreover, we're talking about an outlying province, 1400 km from the capital, with the potential for significantly different local customs — even if there were no oscans in the legions
- yellowapple 3y agoThanks to you I can now add "flamingo for Thanksgiving dinner" to my bucketlist.