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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAncient Roman snacks found in Colosseum dig
Spectators at Rome's ancient gladiator arena, the Colosseum, may have enjoyed snacks of olives, fruit and nuts, archaeologists have found.
Food fragments of figs, grapes, cherries, blackberries, walnuts and more have been unearthed at the site.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63746307
Food fragments of figs, grapes, cherries, blackberries, walnuts and more have been unearthed at the site.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-63746307
But no sign of larks' tongues, wrens' livers, chaffinch brains, jaguars' earlobes, hot wolfs' nipple chips, dromedary pretzels, Tuscany fried bats, otters' noses, ocelots' spleens or even badgers' spleens.
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muriel_volestrangler
Nov 2022
OP
need to check out super sizers. 2 comics eat thru roman era to the 70's. old BBC show.
pansypoo53219
Nov 2022
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dembotoz
(16,922 posts)1. any twinkies are prob still good
I_UndergroundPanther
(13,369 posts)2. Any fossilized cheetoes?
And yeah those twinkies would be like the wooly mammoths found in the permafrost years ago that were so well preserved they could be used as food.
..except the twinkies dont have to be frozen they just last forever.
Crunchy Frog
(28,280 posts)3. I was going to post the Life of Brian clip when I saw the post.
I still want a bag of otters noses.
paleotn
(22,218 posts)4. When I read your title.....
Life of Brian was the first thing that popped into my head.
Chainfire
(17,757 posts)5. I guess that the beer didn't leave much to discover.
pansypoo53219
(23,034 posts)6. need to check out super sizers. 2 comics eat thru roman era to the 70's. old BBC show.
Hermit-The-Prog
(36,631 posts)7. Beer? Justus Beer Bong Weenie Waver likes beer.