[SunkenCiv]

A large Roman ship that sank full of fish sauce has been discovered of Italy's coast. Photo:Boris Horvat/AFP

[GreyFriar]

Probably still good due to the salt.

[djf]

Odds are that it still smells exactly the same!

[jazusamo]

Garum -- a sauce made by fermenting salted fish intestines

Sounds just wonderful but the quality probably had a lot to do with what those fish had been eating. :)

[butlerweave]

Is that the stuff where they throw fish in a bucket then place it in to sun to ROT

[UCANSEE2]

"At 200 meters nobody will be able to dive it ..."

[Larry Lucido]

Someone who hated fish sauce probably paid to have it sunk.

[vetvetdoug]

Worcestershire sauce. I wonder if its still edible or can be used as a steak marinade? That would be real cool to have a steak marinaded in a sauce that was over 2000 years old.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

No wonder the average life span of a Roman was 21 years. Wonder how many died of food poisoning.

Livia: “Don’t eat the figs.” (From I CLAUDIUS)

[ProtectOurFreedom]

So the Romans knew about Umami. BUT, did they know about Sriracha? That is the question.

[Joe 6-pack]

The BBC’s “Supersizers Go” series appealed to my interests in both history and food. They had some interesting things to say about garum in their “Go Roman,” episode.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5MyeInm4xg

[yefragetuwrabrumuy]

And by now, it is finally ripe enough for Icelanders.

[uglybiker]

The sauce was highly prized for its nutritional qualities and was also a rich source of monosodium glutamate...

Yyyyyyyyeah.....I'm sure the ancient Romans knew all about monosodium glutamate.