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What Did Gladiators Eat?
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| Monday, January 21, 2019
| Robin Ngo
Posted on 01/22/2019 11:03:08 PM PST by SunkenCiv
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Detail of a third-fourth-century C.E. mosaic depicting gladiatorial combat, now on display in the Galleria Borghese in Rome. Photo: Licensed under public domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Tombstone excavated in the gladiator cemetery at Ephesus. Photo: © 2014 Lösch et al. Doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0110489.g002.
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posted on
01/22/2019 11:03:08 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; 1ofmanyfree; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; 31R1O; ...
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posted on
01/22/2019 11:05:39 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
You know I never gave it that much thought.
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posted on
01/22/2019 11:06:12 PM PST
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: SunkenCiv; Yaelle
Whole Food Plant Based.
Gladiators were proto-Vegans. Who knew?
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posted on
01/22/2019 11:09:51 PM PST
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Pelham
(Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
To: DIRTYSECRET
The LOSERS!!!
You want ribs or a leg?
To: SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
What do you call a smiling Roman soldier with a piece of hair stuck between his front teeth?
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posted on
01/22/2019 11:12:25 PM PST
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dfwgator
(Endut! Hoch Hech!)
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
Hey they weren’t Aztecs or anything.
Just a heaping plate of pearled barley with an ash chaser.
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posted on
01/22/2019 11:14:41 PM PST
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Pelham
(Secure Voter ID. Mexico has it, because unlike us they take voting seriously)
To: dfwgator
Uh-oh, I dunno. I'll probably regret this...
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posted on
01/22/2019 11:20:37 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
Romans in General were heavily into a wheat and grain diet. Hence the ‘bread and circuses’ bit. The legions had their own bakeries and they ground wheat, barley and other grains to produce the muesli sort of porridge eaten daily. There is an unconfirmed legend that pizza began from the legionaries during the Jewish War taking the shew bread the Jews baked and making it more palatable by baking it again with cheese and whatever vegetable toppings they could gather.
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posted on
01/22/2019 11:22:56 PM PST
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robowombat
(Orthodox)
To: SunkenCiv
This seems kinda weird; VEGAN gladiators? HUNH?
To: SunkenCiv
To: SunkenCiv
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posted on
01/22/2019 11:29:55 PM PST
by
US Navy Vet
(Trump Train!!!)
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; robowombat; nopardons; ButThreeLeftsDo; US Navy Vet; DIRTYSECRET; ...
Anything he wants! :^)
A diet of cereals makes sense, since gladiators were slaves, and slaves were generally fed cereals. I'd never given it any thought, either. :^) "Caesar! Who made the salad?" "Me, and Seven Seas!"
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01/22/2019 11:32:27 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: robowombat
Nooooooooooooo...the "bread" in the "BREAD AND CIRCUSES" saying is about what was FREE/what the government gave out to the poor and lower classes.
Ancient Romans of higher classes ate meat...the flesh of fowls, fish, and animals; though not as much of the latter! I've seen ancient cookery recipes, from ancient Roman times and they ate things like dormice, various cuts of pork, and chicken, with unsparing amounts of ghastly garum, which is a stinking ( as it smelled to high heaven )fermented fish sauce, made from fish innards, heads, tails, and stuff like that.
To: dfwgator
To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
There were food stalls, which were kind of like today’s “carry-out”. There are remains of these, with food still embedded in the lava,in Pompeii.
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posted on
01/22/2019 11:37:08 PM PST
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SunkenCiv
(and btw -- https://www.gofundme.com/for-rotator-cuff-repair-surgery)
To: SunkenCiv
ANYTHING they wanted to!
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posted on
01/22/2019 11:37:13 PM PST
by
a fool in paradise
(Denounce DUAC - The Democrats Un-American Activists Committee)
To: SunkenCiv
LOL
But seriously, way back when, we all learned about who ate what, in Ancient Rome, in first year Latin class...which I still remember. And Apius, or some such Ancient Roman wrote a cooking book, which we all had to read in Latin and translate. I guess that's why I remember it so well. :-)
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