The WILD Feasts & Strange Foods of the Ancient World (Garum, Dormice & Lead Wine)

Rome's favorite sauce was rotted fish guts. They ate honey-dipped mice as a snack, roasted peacocks dressed in their own feathers, and sweetened their wine with lead that slowly poisoned them. They even loved one spice so much they ate it into extinction. Welcome to the ancient table, where the food was stranger and far more dangerous than you think. Every fact is historically documented. Where a story is a myth (like the vomitorium) or disputed, we say so. Which dish would you actually try? Comment below and subscribe for the next chapter. CHAPTERS 0:00 Dining at a Roman feast 0:55 The strangest delicacies 2:06 The vomitorium myth 2:27 The poison in the wine 4:35 The Greek symposium 5:30 Bread and beer in Egypt 7:24 The maddest emperors 8:15 Why they feasted Image sources: public domain and Wikimedia Commons. #ancienthistory #ancientrome #ancientfood #history ---------------------------------------- WATCH ALL OF SEASON 1 (playlist):    • The Ancients Knew: Season 1   New episode every Saturday. Subscribe and hit the bell. ----------------------------------------