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Originally shared by Ralph Roberts
Pompeii Fast Food Joint To Re-open After Two Thousand Years
try the baked cheese lashed with honey, delish!
via Kuriositas.com
"In just about the longest refurbishment period in history, the Pompeii based snack bar owned by Vetutius Placidus is to re-open. Its last customers left in something of a hurry one thousand nine hundred and twenty one years ago but the high profile launch tomorrow promises to be something of a more unhurried affair.
"Three hundred specially invited guests are to taste the delights of Roman fast food in the thermopolium (that’s snack bar to you and me) in a special ceremony to mark the reopening of the joint, which has been closed to the general public for many years. Now after a long period of excavation and preservation, visitors will be able to once more taste the house specialty – baked cheese with lashings of honey. ..."
http://www.kuriositas.com/2010/03/pompeii-fast-food-joint-to-re-open.html
They can finally take down that "Closed for Remodeling" sign.
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