Exceptionally well-preserved snack bar unearthed in Pompeii

Look at the colors on this thing. Looks like it was painted yesterday. (Well, maybe a few hard years ago, but you know what I mean.)

It's called a "thermopolium," and it is a Roman-era fast-food stall. Making me hungry for some duck bone fragments or the remains of pigs, goats, fish and snails, which is what they found in the pots.

Link:
www.theguardian.com...

a reply to: Never Despise

you know back in them days vendors often used pictures to advertise their goods for customers that couldn't read.

looks like this one sold horse meat also. you see a duck, chicken and horse on the front, looks like they might have sold weed to.

well the first one might be a pheasant, kinda hard to tell. looks like they are laying on their backs heels up.

a reply to: Never Despise

thanks for sharing, i will add this

a reply to: Dr UAE

so it's a dog not a horse.

originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: Dr UAE

so it's a dog not a horse.

Probably still tastes like chicken.

Thanks for this OP! One can only imagine the conversations held at this stall so long ago. It's beautiful even now.

a reply to: Never Despise

Prrrretty damn cool I'd say.

originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: Dr UAE

so it's a dog not a horse.

They probably didn’t eat much horse. Too valuable during war.

I refuse to believe that artwork is any older than 3 years old. And I believe in lizard people.

ahhhh looks the first KFC ...ore better PFC
ohh wait its an religieus place where they offerd humans !
it is so that at alll agient findings humans are sacrified like maya"s inka's ect ect
according to historyans

originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: Never Despise
well the first one might be a pheasant, kinda hard to tell. looks like they are laying on their backs heels up.

To me, that first picture looks like two penguins.


TCB

a reply to: Dr UAE

The Nymph riding a horse is stunning art work, very beautiful.

originally posted by: TrulyColorBlind

originally posted by: hounddoghowlie
a reply to: Never Despise
well the first one might be a pheasant, kinda hard to tell. looks like they are laying on their backs heels up.

To me, that first picture looks like two penguins.


TCB

Ha ha ha, that's what I thought until I zoomed in for a closer look, as penguins didn't seem logical.

I saw a thermopolium when I visited Pompeii in 2020 (my second visit, first one in 1975/76)
The one I saw was more like the one in the link below.
Pompeii is fascinating!

Thermopolium

Rainbows
Jane

The only thing missing is a picture of the colonel.

a reply to: Never Despise

For some reason, I find the detail on the rooster absolutely stunning.

What an amazing find ... almost like time travel.

Thanks Never for bringing this to us.

I wonder if the food court of the nearest mall will look that good in 2000 years when future archeologists dig it up. I somehow doubt it. I’m sure every mall will be declared a megachurch or temple. Everything they find is a temple lol. It’s nice to see something that is obviously not one.

a reply to: Never Despise

Very Cool!!

Amazing!

Pompeii is such a bizarre event. It's like time just stopped like a light switch getting thrown. Never have understood how something could happen that fast.

The artwork on the stall is amazing! What an awesome find!

a reply to: Never Despise
Is that a depressed looking 🐕 doggie in front, Run Spot Ruuuun!
great find O.P..

a reply to: Never Despise

'may I take your order?'

'ill have the pyroclastic flow to go please.'

Jokes aside, the ancients were ingenious, despite the "researchers* on the history channel who shout aliens! because they don't have a clue, a slap in the face to human ingenuity.

If I didn't read the title, I would've thought it was a new York diner, more proof that the ancients were awesome.