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Maybe you're bad about leaving your dishes after dinner, but you'll never be "2850 years later" bad about it
https://www.cnn.com/2024/03/23/world/britain-pompeii-science-newsletter-wt-scn/index.html
bj52398
All we really know is what they didn't eat.
Apeofdeath
Leftovers again
moxythree
Thanks Marie Callender.
ScienceMAN1
The guy just could not finish his dinner after he saw how shitty his copper was
komododave
When my wife wants me to do the dishes but won’t tell me she wants me to do the dishes…
HeadJamistan
Thanks Marie Callender
GoodEarthBetweenMyToes
To be fair, the dinner was lost in a conflagration, and then fell through the wicker floor into twelve feet of fecal-contaminated silt. If it was butter chicken, I'd've gone after it. But boiled fucking wheat berries with deer fat? Fuck that.
CrackWhoresAndCheese
kojenk
5 second rule still counts here
Wolfdens
The gold and silver villages had much better food
Chimpanzeezeetop
If you don't eat your dinner it will still be right there for breakfast
LooseyGooseyBrett
I assume they weren't allowed to have their pudding
voydlander
Must have been an ancient bachelor.
MipMop
TL;DR
"...a wheat grain porridge mixed with animal fat. Chemical analyses of the bowls and jars showed traces of honey along with deer, suggesting the people who used the dishes might have enjoyed honey-glazed venison."
DrunkKingOfImgur
I TOLD YOU NEVER! I'D NEVER EAT THAT DISH AGAIN, NOT IN 10000 YEARS!
barbarian818
Note that the reason it was preserved is the roundhouse "caught fire and collapsed into the mud and water below" . So there is a real chance the person who was going to eat that got raided by a rival group.
breakingcode
There was also a small stone tablet with the words "Shake Machine Busted" on it.
5eaux4
Eat your dinner. There’s kids starving at Stonehenge that would kill for that plate of food.
woozle
skwint
I might be 2850 years later bad about it! It's difficult to say for sure, yet, but I'm working on it!
moleclaw76
The remainder of my dinner is still on the table too…
conklin5
Can I put bronze age in the microwave?
Zahnradfee
Nah, no metals in the microwave. Wait for the plastic age.
CassieTastrophe
Um Actually, the Bronze Age ended with the Mediterranean Collapse of the 1200s BC, if these leftovers are truly 2850 years old then this is from an IRON age village.
RunawaySpoons
This is in the UK and Must Farm is consistently referred to by the archaeologists investigating it as a late Bronze Age site.
drduffer
Tonight’s dinner was honey glazed boneless, skinless chicken thighs with rice, peas, and corn. Seems my diet hasn’t changed much since Pompeii either. I, at least, did my dishes.
zerovanity59
Corn is from the new world. It was not in the Bronze age.
drduffer
I knew that. I said “much”.
I’ll bet you’re fun at parties too. (There’s no real problem here. I too believe precision is important.)
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
Hey I was just leaving them to soak a little bit
LeCoq1963
I despise reaching into cold waste-food fetid water, the next day, to pull the drain plug. I'd rather scrape while that soapy water is still hot.
horseWnoname
are you me? lol
Copperbrat
As annoying as I am, being that person that leaves a dish to soak overnight (okay sometimes well into the next day), I’ve never been anywhere near as annoying as the person who will “prove” you don’t need to soak a dish by standing at the sink holding a lasagna-encrusted baking dish under hot running water for 20 minutes while scrape-scrape-scraping at it with the edge of a metal spatula.
bamcobra
And then being surprised when the plumber tells them the drain was clogged with cheese.
duktayp
THE PEAS ARE UPSIDE DOWN
SarcasticComment
I wouldn't be shocked if a staple of English cooking, mushy peas, hasn't advanced culinarily speaking since the bronze age. Conquered the world, no new spices needed.
SarcasticComment
guacamole for very sad people
Alistairetheblu
bamcobra
“I eat my peas with honey. I’ve done it all my life.”
HillOfBeans
“It makes the peas taste funny, but it keeps them on my knife”.
bamcobra
Good morning, fellow old person. +1
HillOfBeans
I heard it from my grandpa in the mid-1900s.
bamcobra
Same
Idonotbelievewehavecompany
Taste the peanness
missojennie
CrankyCook
Aeonika
NotACanadian
Hello, I'm Orson Welles. What follows is a terrifying journey into the world of magic, mystery--
Aeonika
What? Look, I don't need to do this, I have a fish stick commercial in an hour.
AnyUsernameWillDoForMe
But what was it??
300Hectares1TankofKerosene
Crunch wrap supreme
Chronomechanist
I don't know, but if my childhood is anything to go by, I suspect there's the remains of a parent nearby who told their child they'd not be getting any dessert until they finished their plate of dinner.
sometimesarobot
Porridge. Of course it'd be porridge.
Grandolddrummer
How old is @onlyporridge anyway?
HeadJamistan
Sharon's Marie Callender pie.
pareidoliaperson
Now we know who burned the village down. Of course, NOT Sharon!
superduperyooperthatspissedoff
Sebastopol
"..wheat grain porridge mixed with animal fat. Chemical analyses of the bowls and jars showed traces of honey along with deer, suggesting the people who used the dishes might have enjoyed honey-glazed venison."
GravyEducation
Can't have your pudding if you don't eat your meat
bamcobra
HONEY! I knew it.
“It makes the peas taste funny, but it keeps them on my knife.”
KirbyUOR
foundplayer
Do you mind, I'm in the middle of breakfast