Exceptionally well-preserved snack bar unearthed in Pompeii

Thought it was gonna be a picture of an ancient Mars bar or something for a second there...

This is a super cool post. Thanks for sharing! S&F!

It’s amazing to think about how skilled artisans were a millennia before the Renaissance. Makes you wonder.

Probably run by a slave looking for the drachmae to buy his freedom!

Sorry been playing Assassins Creed Odyssey lately

What a find. Amazing how little some things change. Looking forward to hearing more about this as they study it further.

a reply to: Never Despise

I'm so dumb sometimes.

I saw " preserved Snack Bar from Pompeii " and thought I was going to see a petrified piece of Fruit Cake or something.

originally posted by: Paschar0
What a find. Amazing how little some things change. Looking forward to hearing more about this as they study it further.

That was not the first 'restaurant' found at Pompeii

If interested this paper looks at it and taverns found at Pompeii, published in 1964

drum.lib.umd.edu...

and one on bars but a bit high brow

The distribution of bars at Pompeii: archaeological, spatial and viewshed analyses

Two links to the same paper

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www.academia.edu...

www.cambridge.org... nalyses/14E70B31BD312B570F74A2B6B1008349

a reply to: CthulhuMythos
Actually there was a northern species of "penguin" at the time known as the Great Auk, which is also depicted in European cave art, suggesting it was widely used for meat and eggs since ancient times.

In fact, it only became extinct around 1844.
A very sad story.
Hopefully some day we can bring it back, perhaps by using DNA from museum specimens and the puffin, which is its closest living relative.
elifesciences.org...

In fact, confusingly the Great Auk was the original Penguin.

That is, the southern hemisphere flightless bird known as a penguin today was actually named thus, because it resembled a similar big flightless seabird European explorers were then familiar with. But which is unfamiliar to us, because it was driven to extinction.

The word penguin first appears in the 16th century as a synonym for great auk.[3] When European explorers discovered what are today known as penguins in the Southern Hemisphere, they noticed their similar appearance to the great auk of the Northern Hemisphere, and named them after this bird, although they are not closely related.

en.wikipedia.org...

This was always a favorite question on 1980's type game shows and puzzles.

What is wrong with this picture?
And you see "Eskimos" and an igloo, and penguins waddling by.

I was first horrified, I thought they moved all the Inuit to Antarctica!

No, relax, not yet, but penguins only live today in the southern hemisphere.
But once very similar birds lived also in the northern hemisphere.
We should not forget the original "penguin" (the Great Auk).

a reply to: halfoldman

Polar bears ate all the penguins.

As far as Roman stylistics go - very little design difference between their snack bars and public toilets.

In fact, when I first saw the picture ...

But let's not get the wrong end of the stick, I'm sure there was lots of cloth and resort-town pizzazz in full swing.

If you had a time machine.

Muscles - me?

Well, eh, you are all rather small.

Take him to the Gladiator school!

Gym they said, for a brighter future.

Right, so what we have in mind for you sweetie is hungry lions, wolves, leopards and bears in the arena, and we'll put you on a see-saw and your opponent on the other end.

Then you can struggle about who goes up and down.

You look about equally matched and you each get a sword.

The winner might even go free.

You guys are very lucky.

Where's that time-changer!

originally posted by: CajunMetal
It’s amazing to think about how skilled artisans were a millennia before the Renaissance. Makes you wonder.

Makes sense, since the Renaissance was a revival of classic Greek and Roman art, sculpture, etc.

Roman dormouse snack.
www.jstor.org...

Remember what the dormouse said?
Nope and nobody cares.
Feed your head.

Stuffed dormouse ... yummy.

Stuffed dormice, a pretty ubiquitous ancient Roman recipe.

Actually I'm beginning to see possibilities here.

There's a rat in the kitchen what you gonna do?

Prepare the olive pimento stuffing with truffle oil and creme fraiche.

Now, get the hockey stick!

(Joke. No dormice or other rodents were injured during the making of this post.)