Spectators at Rome's Colosseum ate olives, fruit and nuts while watching gladiators fight to the death, archaeologists find after discovering 1,900-year-old food fragments

Daily Mail (UK) ^ | November 24, 2022, updated on the 25th | Fiona Jackson

[fidelis]

It is said that he movie theaters had a certain aroma before air conditioning.

Not surprising, since a popular early theater snack was deviled eggs.

[Veto!]

What? No beer or wine bottles and potato chip wrappers?

I’ve been to the colosseum and so have millions of other people. Those fruits, seeds and pits could have been left by anyone. Or???

[SunkenCiv]

Since the number one condiment was fermented fish sauce, they might have enjoyed haggis.

[SunkenCiv]

It’s okay, as long you also yell “Goobers!”

[SunkenCiv]

anyone 1900 years old by now, yes.

[x]

Probably stale by now.

[Adder]

So you are suggesting that the colosseum, holding some 50k folks had no latrines. Sitting in the semi shaded sun for hours drinking and eating and they would have left and rentered? I know there were several side rooms on level one, now home to pieces of broken columns...Wonder if they might have been there. I don’t know that I’ve seen it discussed...

I do know about public latrines and the taxes and the sponges for that shared personal touch.

[atc23]

I found endless fascination looking at the tool marks in the stone steps of the colosseum. Wondering about the day the workman had working those stones. What time he got off and what he did that night after work. Pompeii was fascinating. Perfectly preserved taverns, many of them still with the menus painted on the walls. Beer and Wine. Bread. Bread with tomato and olive oil sauce. PIZZA! Herculaneum was interesting beyond belief. The elites of Pompeii huddled in caves awaiting evacuation vessels in the port,but alas, victims of the blast, captured forever in stone plaster ash caskets. Mouths open in mute agony of their last breath. Mothers shielding their children.

[SunkenCiv]

I didn’t suggest that at all. It must have had some — else why are there sewers with waste in them — they just haven’t survived.

[SunkenCiv]

I thought I'd posted this, maybe I had, but it got nuked.

The short answer is: earthquakes and popes, in that order.

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[SunkenCiv]

And the pay cap. They always kept the Reserve Clause though...

[SunkenCiv]

Call the bevvie bim.

https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1394081/?ref_=ttep_ep8

[LibertyWoman]

Wow! Thank you so much for that vivid description. You’re quite the writer. I could visualize all of it! Thank you!

[LibertyWoman]

Now that...would be fascinating!

[The Louiswu]

CROWD: Aaah. Ohh...

SPECTATOR: What a load of rubbish.

BRIAN: Larks’ tongues. Otters’ noses. Ocelot spleens.

REG: Got any nuts?

BRIAN: I haven’t got any nuts. Sorry. I’ve got wrens’ livers, badgers’ spleens—

REG: No, no, no.

BRIAN: Otters’ noses?

REG: I don’t want any of that Roman rubbish.

JUDITH: Why don’t you sell proper food?

BRIAN: Proper food?

REG: Yeah, not those rich imperialist tit-bits.

BRIAN: Well, don’t blame me. I didn’t ask to sell this stuff.

REG: All right. Bag of otters’ noses, then.

FRANCIS: Make it two.

REG: Two.

FRANCIS: Thanks, Reg.

[P.O.E.]

Best album ever.

[Tolerance Sucks Rocks]

I hope some of them ate prunes. They deserved to crap themselves after watching a day of Christians being devoured by lions.

[PeterPrinciple]

Looks like the walnuts were eaten and digested whole. Tough Trip..............................

[SunkenCiv]

The lions didn’t eat clowns though — they tasted funny.

[SunkenCiv]

LOL!