Erastes Fulmen and eels HD | 1:24
Lucius Vorenus | 16K subscribers | 18,795 views | July 18, 2019
Posted on 05/05/2024 5:10:23 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
...In addition to the amphorae, archaeologists found ropes, shoes, a wooden drill and organic "dunnage" or matting, made from vine shoots and grass, that was used to protect the ship's hull from the cargo, Cau said...
Many of the amphorae contained the remnants of fish sauce, while others held oil from plants — likely olives, wine, and perhaps olives preserved in vinegar. The distinctive amphorae for different products were labeled with painted inscriptions known as "tituli picti" in Latin, he said...
Previous studies found that many of the oil amphorae had seals stamped with a "Chrismon," or Christian monogram — similar to the Chi-Rho symbol of Constantine — which suggested they may have been marketed by a church authority, Cau said.
In another key discovery, the wooden "step" connecting the mast to the hull was found to contain a coin from Roman Siscia (in modern-day Croatia), in line with Roman rituals for blessing a ship. The coin was made during the reign of the Roman emperor Constantine the Great and fixed the earliest possible date of the ship as A.D. 320...
The ancient Romans were big fans of fish sauce and enjoyed several different types. The most famous may be "garum," which seems to have been a luxury product made from fermented fish viscera (guts) and blood, but "liquamen" seems to have been made from whole fish.
The archaeological analysis found fragments of fish bones in some of the amphorae from the Ses Fontanelles wreck, which indicated the "liquaminis flos" they were labelled as holding — Latin for liquamen "flower," which may have meant "best liquamen" — was made mostly from anchovies but contained some sardines.
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Roly Poly Fish Heads..Eat them up, yum!
Ahhhhhhhh...
Here, you can have my Fish Sauce;
I’ll take your Brussel Sprouts.
Yes. :)
Erastes Fulmen and eels HD | 1:24
Lucius Vorenus | 16K subscribers | 18,795 views | July 18, 2019
I’ll trade half and marinade my remaining sprouts with your fish sauce. By the way, the final product looks better than the raw material used to make it.
Today many people wouldn’t be able to eat if they were transposed
back to those time periods. Some I probably wouldn’t eat.
My daughter uses anchovy paste to make Cesaer dressing. I made a batch of Kimchi and substituted the Anchovy paste for the fish sauce.
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snip..."Also, many Romans enjoyed eating an uncooked and fermented fish sauce called garum. "Roman enthusiasm" for garum may explain why fish tapeworm parasites were so common in the empire, as the parasites live in fish. (Cooking the fish kills the parasite, Mitchell said.)"
Tinned anchovies have been heat processed.
That probably led to overeating with no weight gain. ;^)
Mmmmmm. Pasta Putanesca.
“Mmmmm, nothing like fermented fish guts.”
I’ve been eating fish sauce since I was a kid, I lived in Thailand with my folks for a few years and he used to go to the Trang province, that place is renown.
To the Romans, fish sauce was the condiment of choice.
It’s one of those better choices if you want to add a little umammi.
Fish sauce probably has as many fish guts in it as a can of sardines. Of course back then they might have been full of fish cuts, but I don’t know about that, one of the reasons it was very popular in the Mediterranean back in the day was that sardines and anchovies were plentiful.
“Umami, which is also known as monosodium glutamate is one of the basic five tastes including sweet, sour, salty, and bitter. Umami means “delicious savory taste” in Japanese, and its taste is often described as the meaty, savory deliciousness that deepens flavor.”
Years ago some friends were over and one of the friends saw the fish sauce bottle in the fridge she said she liked it... my darling wife at the time said “oh yuck I would NEVER eat that” looking at me with digust (I was a military cook at the time). My reply was “you’ve eaten more of that than you will ever know.” I’ve always done a lot of the cooking... still do.
The popularity of fish sauce amazes me.
Who would have thought that collecting the dripping goo from rotting fish would be something you would want to eat
(but it is kind of delicious)
Reminds me of the chumming scene in Jaws.
Looks like some left their dinner
How does one distinguish between fermented and ROTTEN?
Wasn't that an episode of "Friends"?
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