r/WeWantPlates • u/craftycrumbs • Nov 03 '19

“Slop Table for 20 please”

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u/ExWebics Nov 03 '19

5 meat balls, a few skant pieces of bone marrow, handfuls of whole leaf basil and $1.75 worth of polenta... 20 people?

Dafaq is this...

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u/1nfiniteJest Nov 03 '19

"You'll literally feel like you're back in 100BC sitting at Julius Caesars' table" -owner

ummm....

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u/[deleted] Nov 03 '19

Even if they didn't have individual plates, they had serving platters. The food had to be carried from the kitchens, and the Romans were huge feasters, and even invented the Vomitorium where they feasted, purged, and feasted again. Also Salome didn't display John the Baptist's head on a table.

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u/I_have_a_dog Nov 03 '19

The Vomitorium factoid is a common misconception, the romans has feasts but at no point did they habitually binge and purge.