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BREAD: libae/ smaller rolls, panis primus/ cheap grain bread, primus secundus/
bread one step above panis primus, panis plebeius/ bread of coarse wheat flour
(common bread), panis castrensis/ (army bread), panis sordidus/ (dark bread),
panis rusticus/ bran bread (country bread), Picenian bread / fine biscuits,
siligineus/ white bread
FRUITS: plums, almonds, apples, pomegranates, figs, quinces, filberts,
walnuts, grapes, chestnuts, pears
VEGETABLES: artichokes, garlic, mushrooms, turnips, asparagus, leeks, olives,
beans, lentils, onions, beets, lettuce, parsnips, broccoli, mallow leaves,
peas, cabbages, marrows, pumpkins, cucumbers, melons, radishes
DRINKS: calda/ warm water and wine with spices (a winter drink), mulsum/
honeyed wine, posca/ vinegar mixed with water (a soldier and slave‚s drink),
wine/ watered down wine
MEAT, FISH, & POULTRY: beef, veal, boar, dormice, goat, hare, kid, lamb,
mutton, sausage, snails, sucking pig, venison, carp, catfish, clams, crab, eel
flounder, hake, lobster, mackerel, mullet mussels, octopus, oysters, perch,
porpice, prawns, rays, sardines, shark, sole, swordfish, trout, tuna, turbot,
chicken, crane, dove, duck, fig-peckers, flamingo, goose, ostrich, partridge,
peacock, pheasant pigeon, thrushes
SAUCES & SPICES: defrutum/ concentrated wine, liquamen/ made from salted fish
and fish insides, pepper, salt
UNKNOWN FOODS: bananas, corn, sugar, chili pepper, peanuts, tea, chocolate,
potatotes, tomatoes, coffee, rice
BREAKFAST: jentaculum/ served at sunrise or the first hour (not all Romans ate
breakfast and many times they would only have a glass of water)
LUNCH: prandium/ had around the sixth hour (eggs with bread and cheese or
leftovers)
DINNER: cena/ served around the ninth or tenth hour {wheat meal porridge
(puls) [meat was scarce and served and sacrifices and dinner parties. Fish was
the most common.]}
Urban Legend from Becca
I do not know any ghost stories but do know the urban legend about the woman
that went to a gas station and when she went to get back in her car the clerk
at the station told her that she needed to come inside. When she asked why he
stated that her credit card was not accepted and that she needed to pay
inside. The woman was freaked out and did not believe the man and refused to
believe him. After much arguing he convinced her to come inside, when she had
finally done they called the cops because he had seen someone climb into the
back seat of her car with an axe.
Wednesday, December 10, 2003
post scriptum
The next day, the old lady woke up and found random dirty, bloody, hungover men in her lodge. Upset by this discovery, she wakes them all up to kick them out of the lodge, but once again, Giton saves the day. Apparently he is the woman's nephew's best friend's cousin and he makes a deal for them to be able to stay there until they regain their senses. The men all feel terrible because of the cuts on their feet and their hangovers, but they do not learn their lesson and end up at another one of Trimalchio's crazy parties for the next three nights in a row. Eventually, their bad behavior catches up with them as one night the inebriated men fall into a fountain while they are trying to steal coins that people threw in and drown. the end.
Tuesday, December 09, 2003
... And that's how it really happened (A Lesson in REAL History)
After this dinner party many more subsequent parties, Trimalchio gains enough popularity to be declared emporer. However these parties get to be too frequent and too expensive for him to finance personally so over the years him and his ancestors gradually sell off parts of the empire to the goths, huns, arabs and others for booze money. Of course noone cares because they are all to busy carrying on about starving in their luxurious mansions, hitting on slave boys, writing their own epitaphs, showing off their bracelets, worrying about which foot to cross the doorway with or playing stupid jokes on eachother to care about anything else.
Ending
Meanwhile, back at Trimalchio's home, the house was filled with water and in shambles from all of the confusion. However, the next morning Trimalchio did not remember too much because he was too drunk to realize what had actually happened. He woke up the next morning remembering very little of the night before and with a huge hang over. Once he found that his house had been destroyed due to all the confusion from the previous night; he ordered a new home to be built where he would plan to host many more crazy dinner parties.
The real ending
After the guests were all asleep, they were awakened by a dirty, smelly man who was shouting that he was Trimalchio. All the guests stand in confusion around the smelly man as he tells the story of how he and Fortunata were beaten and robbed of their belongings by a theif and his girlfriend. They pretended to be the real Trimalchio and Fortunata, so that the slaves and cooks would not realize it was a fake. They threw you, my friends, a party in hopes to not reveal their secret. The guests all stood in awe as the story was being revealed. He continued, we finally made it home and now are house is burnt to the ground and the theifs are gone. "Can you please help us?" he exclaims, "for I am ruined."
The Other Ending
When Trimalchio realizes his guests have run off he becomes terribly angry and runs through the streets trying to find them and bring them back. Instead of meeting the runaway guests he meets up with the witches who turn him into a werewolf. Not wanting anyone to see him in his disgraceful state, Trimalchio runs off to find other werewolf friends. Fortunata them becomes the owner of the estate. She does a little Trading Spaces episode with her neighbors and all the tacky calendars and nonsense on the walls is taken away. Fortunata is then able to hold tasteful and entertaining parties to which everyone is invited. The End.
Finis
what happens at Trimalchio's house>
Once the guards figured out that the house wasn't on fire, they appologize and leave. Trimalchio is so mad that his house is in shambles that he picks up another cup and throws it at Fortunada's face. This time it hits her in a crucial spot and she dies. Trimalchio, realizing that he killed the woman who provided the yeast from which his fortune fermented, has a mental break down. His little toy (boy) tries to consol him, but to no avail. Trimalchio rips off his clothes and goes running naked through the streets. The witches see him and wip him with their whips because he was such a bad husband. Moral? Don't mistreat women, it will come back to haunt you.
-Jennifer
