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 (DIR) Post #As1c3uOWsad0ijuTpY by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-03-13T21:57:20Z
       
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       The proper name of a place to buy a slice is “Pizza $1.50” no Italians, no other names required. It’s like a chain that’s not a chain. All the pizza shops are connected and oh! they ancient: when I stop for lunch by the aqueduct eating fast food from a little street shop I do one better than all those boys who can’t stop thinking about The Roman Empire: I am, I become for a moment a *roman*, urban, harried, sophisticated and hungry for street pizza.
       
 (DIR) Post #As1fBXHB18uLCNnca8 by nazokiyoubinbou@urusai.social
       2025-03-13T22:32:19Z
       
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       @futurebird Won't they have to rename it every time they have a sale?  😁
       
 (DIR) Post #As1gkYMp3KQofjhYyO by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-03-13T22:49:52Z
       
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       I shouldn't assume people know: You see there were fast food shops in ancient Rome. They had a very similar layout to a NYC pizza place, although they mostly sold bread with olive oil, not pizza exactly. But they had no seating, a little counter, oven in the back. Those florescent lights that make all times of day and night collapse into the same endless moment didn't exist back then. But they must have had some other method of bending time in those days of smoke and oracles.
       
 (DIR) Post #As1grt94CMmV8plVCa by babelcarp@social.tchncs.de
       2025-03-13T22:51:10Z
       
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       @futurebird Oil lamps?
       
 (DIR) Post #As1hSoGfINwWjFvOL2 by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-03-13T22:57:51Z
       
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       @cinebox This area was such a nice place to come live seasonally and hunt and fish, it was a verdant paradise with maximal wildlife diversity. I think even my non-survival educated self could have found a thing to eat in these islands. You could get around with a little boat once you learned the tides no rowing!The Lenape like to keep it that way and not let it get too rundown and overburdened. Managed it like a state park with hunting limits and such.But, nothing stays exclusive forever.
       
 (DIR) Post #As1hdD3A0jO8U9ZDKy by jdp23@neuromatch.social
       2025-03-13T22:59:44Z
       
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       @futurebird when we visited Herculaneum, the setups at the thermopolia there felt so contemporary to me that I could practically hear people ordering the blue-plate special ... in Latin of course but still.
       
 (DIR) Post #As1hwZeCDc244W7jfM by CowboyWho@libranigans.com
       2025-03-13T23:02:53Z
       
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       @futurebird Sounds a bit like the Bristo Math drive from Hitchhiker's Guide
       
 (DIR) Post #As1nzWAuBWYxtcD60G by CStamp@mastodon.social
       2025-03-14T00:10:58Z
       
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       @futurebird Since tomatoes didn't get to Italy from North America until the mid 1500s, bread with olive oil was pretty good. :)
       
 (DIR) Post #As1qPPLsNK4oAjoZnM by futurebird@sauropods.win
       2025-03-14T00:38:07Z
       
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       @CStamp I really think if you grabbed a random Roman and NYCer and swapped them in time they would be very confused. But NOT as confused as you'd expect.
       
 (DIR) Post #As1qdFBay5f4hJbTtI by thepoliticalcat@mastodon.social
       2025-03-14T00:40:35Z
       
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       @futurebird I like you because you make my brain itch.
       
 (DIR) Post #As1qfSBfbK7lbDgyWm by Fat_Farang@mastodon.social
       2025-03-14T00:41:00Z
       
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       @futurebird @CStamp Worth a shot. Maybe the Romans would start by stabbing a few senators.
       
 (DIR) Post #As1rcejaavuFbBmsvA by Joe_Hill@union.place
       2025-03-14T00:51:40Z
       
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       @futurebird Oh man, you’re making me so hungry! We barely have any decent pizza joints out here (Utah) much less Slice Joints.
       
 (DIR) Post #As1ruChlXuuzsbIn8C by floatybirb@mastodon.social
       2025-03-14T00:54:51Z
       
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       @futurebird @CStamp There's an anime (Thermae Romae Nova) where an ancient Roman guy who designs bath houses gets sporadically teleported to and from a public bath in modern Japan.  He's confused (shouting at people in Latin), but one of the other bath customers is really nice to him and hangs out with him, and he discovers commonalities between the Japanese baths and his own, and when he goes back to Rome he applies features from the future bath houses to his next designs.  So same vibe.
       
 (DIR) Post #As1sbKpLDvp1WRPbBQ by foo@fosstodon.org
       2025-03-14T01:02:40Z
       
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       @futurebird The Southwest US equivalent is the *berto's. Mexican fast food, always named Alberto's, Roberto's, Filiberto's, etc. Sometimes two of the same name will be owned by the same owner, sometimes they're completely unrelated. Yet they always have the exact same menu.
       
 (DIR) Post #As1wKsLbk47cNTuYwy by rustoleumlove@mastodon.online
       2025-03-14T01:44:30Z
       
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       @futurebird @CStamp agreed. i have been to about 90 countries.and i think most of us have WAY MORE in common than they do things that separate us.that's prolly even true across time...(until you're rich lmfao - then you are not like us)
       
 (DIR) Post #As24GJ5pfseLVrrh1E by KatPhoenix@sfba.social
       2025-03-14T03:13:18Z
       
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       @futurebird They had these in Pompeii. Yes they used mirrors and oil lamps to bring the light in. Saw them on a documentary about Pompeii laborers and slaves (which these places were mostly for).