Pompeii is such an amazing archaeological site as it was frozen in time. Nor gradual decline. It really shows how the little things stay the same throughout history. From humor, to in this case, the presence of street food. I don't think there is any city we have found that is so preserved in time as Pompeii.
We should regularly kill and entomb a town as a sort of time capsule
If Yellowstone goes off, then America will be entombed, but the words ecosystems will be fucked.
But if Yellowstone does not go off, then America won't be entombed, but the worlds ecosystems will be fucked.
My favourite thing from Pompeii is the preserved graffiti. It's so easy to think of ancient people as being completely different and alien from us in their thoughts and behaviour, and then you see a bunch of 2000 year old dick jokes scrawled on the walls
My fave:
Weep, you girls. My penis has given you up. Now it penetrates men's behinds. Goodbye, wondrous femininity!
Some Roman writing an article about how young forum goers eating too many olive-oil-on-breads is the reason the gods made Vesuvius erupt.
Unless you were an elite with a domus and slaves to tend to it, you didn't have your own kitchen. Romans in urban areas lived in apartment-style insulae that did not have individual kitchens and would either have their raw ingredients cooked at a place like this or just bought cooked food. Pompeii is dope.
Reject modernity, embrace tradition, eat every meal at McDonald's and Chick-fil-A.
There is a nice youtue channel called "Tasting History" it has some episodes about pompeii food and all videos in general are really nice.
The dude is also a snack
Traces of nearly 2,000-year-old food were found in some of the deep terra cotta jars containing hot food
Still hot after all those years. Incredible. Does it still taste good?
Food remnants at Pompeii are carbonized, so it'd be literally like eating charcoal
You joke but fr they found 3,000 year old honey in some Egyptians tombs and folks actually ate it and said it was fine b/c honey doesn't spoil.
what fascinates me about pompeii is we learned so much about roman cuisine and paintings from it. like everything was painted, it was very common.
Everything in the classical world and medieval period was painted and colorful. The drabness of the dark ages and the pristineness of Rome are both early modern inventions.
Pompeii's full of thermopolia but this is the best-preserved one I've seen. dank frescoes
Was going to comment the same. Others I’ve seen pictures of are not nearly as decorated, perhaps this was a place where the wealthy ate.
I'm pretty sure this one's just well preserved since it's the first newly excavated thermopolium in decades. Frescoes that are near ground level will get rubbed and worn away to nothing real fast unless protected. I'd guess that most "working class" thermopolia in Pompeii had similar decorations originally.
Important update: Graffiti on the dog image reads, “Nicia, shameless shutter.”
Knowing that Romans shit in communal latrines, I wonder what earns one such a nickname.
Probably right; but then again, those food stalls were the main source of daily food for a ton of people, such as those living in insulae. They didn't have their own kitchen; not so in NYC.
