{"id":2850,"date":"2025-06-16T14:35:28","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/ancient-romans-ate-fried-chicken\/"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:35:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T14:35:30","slug":"ancient-romans-ate-fried-chicken","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/16\/ancient-romans-ate-fried-chicken\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Romans ate fried chicken"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>2025-06-16 14:35:27<\/b><br \/>\n<BR>Ancient Romans loved eating fried chicken.<BR><br \/>\nScientists have discovered 2,000-year-old remains of songbirds that were deep-fried and eaten by Romans as a convenient snack.<BR><br \/>\nThe leftovers were found at a rubbish pit near the ancient ruins of a fast food shop in the Roman city of Pollentia on the Spanish island Mallorca.<BR><br \/>\nThe songbirds, a forerunner to today&#8217;s chicken, are thought to have been flattened on-site and quick-fried for sale to customers.<BR><br \/>\nThey were also eaten as a street food by the general population instead of an &#8220;elite&#8221; delicacy for the rich as previously thought.<BR><br \/>\nDr. Alejandro Valenzuela, a researcher at the Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, said: &#8220;Thrushes were commonly sold and consumed in Roman urban spaces.<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;(This challenges) the prevailing notion based on written sources that thrushes were exclusively a luxury food item for elite banquets.&#8221;<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"> Visit Bang Bizarre (main website) <\/a><br \/>\n<br \/><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/xtbac.js\" data-video=\"\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>2025-06-16 14:35:27 Ancient Romans loved eating fried chicken. Scientists have discovered 2,000-year-old remains of songbirds that were deep-fried and eaten by Romans as a convenient snack. The leftovers were found&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2851,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2850","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bizarre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2850"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2852,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2850\/revisions\/2852"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bangbizarre.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}