Researcher Alejandro Valenzuela recently found evidence that thrushes, which are small birds with a rich, gamey flavor, were part of everyday Roman fast food culture, not just elite delicacies.

At the Pollentia site, archaeologists also found the remains of pigs, sheep, goat, fish and shellfish – showing how varied ...

Songbirds were on the menu 2,000 years ago on the Roman island of Mallorca, archaeological evidence reveals. Bones of the small thrushes were discovered in a trash pit near the ancient ruins of a fast ...

Historical sources (including the Roman gourmand Apicius and the philosopher Plutarch) describe thrushes as delicacies ...

Many of the UK’s bird species are in serious decline, largely due to habitat destruction and the collapse of food chains ...

A new analysis of the bones in the eatery’s garbage pit challenges the elite status of thrush in the Roman diet ...

They found 165 thrush bones, challenging the previous belief that such songbirds were mainly eaten by wealthier Romans. Ruins of ancient fish salting factories at Roman archaeological site in ...

Such fast-food joints, known as popinae and tabernae, frequently served fried small thrushes, once considered a luxury dish, ... They found 165 thrush bones, ...

They found 165 thrush bones, challenging the previous belief that such songbirds were mainly eaten by wealthier Romans. Ruins of ancient fish salting factories at Roman archaeological site in ...

The research illuminates part of the Roman diet and challenges historical assumptions about thrush consumption.

Commoners in the Roman Empire frequently snacked on inexpensive fried songbirds at roadside shops, archaeologists said after analysing an ancient trash pit in Spain. Such fast-food joints, known as ...

Archaeologists uncover fast food ancient Romans frequently snacked on - Mallorca excavations suggest ancient fast-food shops ...