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What did the wealthy Romans eat?

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Wealthy Romans drank watered down wine and tea. They ate fin
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ger foods at dinner parties and for feasts they ate delicacies such as salted jellyfish,
stuffed mice, and roasted parrots. Senators, speakers, politicians, and lawyers ate garlic
like vitamins each day for good health. They also took natural medicines made from plant
s such as herbs for digestion. Doctors prescribed walnuts to them to be better speakers.
They thought of walnuts as "smart foods" because they seemed to them as little brains.

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