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This post has been here for a whole hour and nobody has posted this yet?! *tsk*  

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34 minutes ago, Callum Meriman said:

No maize, but corn started in mexico 7000 years or so ago with zea mays parviglumis, then as it was crossbred it headed south to the great empires down there.

" Corn was first domesticated about 10,000 years ago in what is now Mexico.[3] Archaeologists discovered that people have known about popcorn for thousands of years. In Mexico, for example, remnants of popcorn have been found that date to around 3600 BC "

 

At least what Wikipedia tells

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn#History

 

+ chocolate coated popcorn is good

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2 hours ago, KathrynLisbeth said:

Ad respondendum quaestio originale. Ego puto illic es duos valde sapidum cibum.  Sed secundum Wikipedia.  Orange Iulium et Caesar Salad non Romanus sunt.  Ita... eh? 

I haven't had an Orange Julius in ages

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41 minutes ago, Love Zhaoying said:

Fun Fact: in many translated ancient writings, “corn” meant grain. Not maize.

How do you define ancient? Using corn as a synonym for maize is an americanism and wasn't very common elsewhere in the world before the internet.

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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
Middle English corne, from Old French, horn, from Latin cornū; see ker-1 in Indo-European roots.

Yes, it seems it's root is the Latin "Horn" as in cornucopia.

TIL

 

4 minutes ago, Ansiri said:

They had fish sauce in Rome, if not popcorns.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garum

Fish sauce on popcorn is even worse then chocolate... and just furgedaboudit on icecream. Blerch.

 

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3 hours ago, Ansiri said:

" Corn was first domesticated about 10,000 years ago in what is now Mexico.[3] Archaeologists discovered that people have known about popcorn for thousands of years. In Mexico, for example, remnants of popcorn have been found that date to around 3600 BC "

 

At least what Wikipedia tells

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Popcorn#History

 

+ chocolate coated popcorn is good

10,000 years ago, when two central american Indians were arguing, a third Indian took out a bag of popcorn and began eating, thus starting the popular popcorn meme.

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4 hours ago, ChinRey said:

America wasn't invented back then either so there was no maize. And neither wheat nor rye pop very well. They did have hamburgers though

Wait...the Romans had hamburgers???  Wikipedia doesn't list any claims prior to 1768, and it seems that the hamburger sandwich per se didn't appear until around 1890 or so.

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23 minutes ago, Lindal Kidd said:

Wait...the Romans had hamburgers???  Wikipedia doesn't list any claims prior to 1768, and it seems that the hamburger sandwich per se didn't appear until around 1890 or so.

Oooooh, look... https://museumcrush.org/the-1500-year-old-recipe-that-shows-how-romans-invented-the-beef-burger/

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I have no opinions on the Roman Empire except for one thing.  No matter how good or bad a historical situation or event was at the time, we are all beneficiaries of that history simply because we were born, which we might not have been if history had been different.

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14 minutes ago, Conifer Dada said:

I have no opinions on the Roman Empire except for one thing.  No matter how good or bad a historical situation or event was at the time, we are all beneficiaries of that history simply because we were born, which we might not have been if history had been different.

It's a pretty nonsensical question. It's a bit like asking one's opinion of the Black Death:

"Yeah, that made things a bit rough for people, didn't it?"

"Sure, but it helped end serfdom! Yay for the Bubonic Plague!"

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4 hours ago, Conifer Dada said:

I have no opinions on the Roman Empire except for one thing.  No matter how good or bad a historical situation or event was at the time, we are all beneficiaries of that history simply because we were born, which we might not have been if history had been different.

Isn't this a sort of survivorship bias? Can you imagine a past that had something better than the Roman Empire, which would produce a present that's remarkably better than the one we have now?

I think stupid luck could have produced an alternate Maddy, better in every way, living in a humanity that's better in every way. While imagining a better past won't change anything, imagining better futures might, even with the omnipresent threat of stupid luck.

 

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10 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

It's a pretty nonsensical question. It's a bit like asking one's opinion of the Black Death:

"Yeah, that made things a bit rough for people, didn't it?"

"Sure, but it helped end serfdom! Yay for the Bubonic Plague!"

And the Plague doctors had such cool masks!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_doctor

 

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17 minutes ago, Scylla Rhiadra said:

It's a pretty nonsensical question. It's a bit like asking one's opinion of the Black Death:

"Yeah, that made things a bit rough for people, didn't it?"

"Sure, but it helped end serfdom! Yay for the Bubonic Plague!"

I certainly wouldn't have been born if it wasn't for the Black Death. It wiped out much of the Norwegian population, making room for German and Danish immigrant, including several of my ancestors.

And I wouldn't have been born if the Spanish Armada hadn't been beaten and some of the ships hadn't ended up shipwrecked way up north with some of my ancestors among the crew.

And if some poor English fishermen hadn't been shipwrecked too...

And if the Romani people hadn't been driven away and harrassed everywhere, forcing some of them to flee all the way to Norway...

Now I really feel I have the right to say "Excuse me for living".

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