If you were sent back in time to the Roman Empire era, and you had the funds, ingredients, permits, and understood their language, what kind of food franchise would you make?
>>21769970An extra hoppy IPA. Did you know Romans thought beer was for barbarians?
>>21769974it was for barbarians, or rather the barbarians were the ones who made and drank it. romans drank wine and vinegar diluted with water.
>>21769970PizzaExactly like picrelBut Neapolitan of course
xiao long bao>>21769974and they were right
>>21769974The would probably enjoy a good sour over a hoppy IPA
I'll accidentally let slip something about the future of the Empire and I'll be cooked.
>>21769970>permitsimagine going back to Roman Britain and being told you need a loicense to teach them lasagna
>>21769978i mean the best fries i ever ate were some fries I bought out of a black guy's car trunk....
Sausages and milkybars.
>>21769970Ice cream and coffee shop
>>21771808they had ice cream, id bring them corn and invent tamales and tacosthered be statues of me
>>21769970Tomatoes. Beyond question.
>>21771832okay but they were still several centuries away from pasta
>>21769970Potatoes and corn
>>21769970Hot cheetos
>>21769970mango loco monsterflamin hot cool ranch doritospizza hut chocolate lava cake or maybe a BJs pizookiemoose tracks ice creamsour patch kids
>>21769970
chow mein to cockblock marco polo
>>21769974>>21769976>>21770028did they have anything similar to cider or mead?
>>21771823> They had ice cream> They had snow and ice mixed with honey, fruits, and juices, popularized by figures like Emperor Nero who sent *runners to mountains for ice*Not the same as whole milk ice cream, insulting to call what they had ice CREAM really. I'd destroy any "ice cream" merchant.You know what, I changed my mind, I'll make them frozen custard now
>>21771953Did you not watch Apothecary diaries? The ice is put in one bowl, and a second smaller bowl is placed within the bowl of ice. Then you pour milk into that smaller inner bowl so it gets chilled and eventually frozen, and you churn it up to incorporate air. That's how ice cream is made. You don't have to put the ice directly into the milk. If they had ice, they can definitely make whole milk ice cream back then.
>>21771971Yes, and it was based in China not the Roman empire. They *didn't* incorporate milk into their cold desserts until the 1600's
>>21771984The issue at hand is that they had all of the ingredients minus things like vanilla and chocolateThis is about introducing new things to RomeAlthough OP is still somewhat a faggot for thinking that Romans ate permits
Fried chicken
>>21771991> If you were sent back in time to the Roman Empire era, and you had the funds, ingredients, permits, and understood their language, what kind of food franchise would you make?I would own a custard shop that also served espresso and crush the "competition" with my new fangled methods of using the ingredients available. They're lucky I can't actually go back in time
>>21769970Chili peppers. Romans were big on spice and flavor, they'd definitely appreciate something hot they can actually grow in Italy.
>>21769970Burgers.
>>21771903This.
>>21769974>extra hoppy IPA
>>21769970coffeethey would have never fallen
>>21772118>>21772394>>21772402>>21771903Good posts.
>>21769970Tomatoes and pasta, I want those wops making baked spaghetti before they've even finished off Carthage.
>>21770083Imagine being so pig ignorant you think lasagne existed in Roman times. Quite the stretch, even for a fucking retard like you.
>>21772444>roman times>tomatoes
>>21772454>had the funds, ingredients, permits>ingredients>implying you can't use the funds and time-travelled tomato seeds to have umbrian slaves farming romas ripe for saucingRetard
>>21772451>teach them lasagna>TEACHhow did you miss the point of the entire fucking thread
>>21769970Butter chicken curry and Japanese curry.
>>21769974>*gets crucified*
>>21771971>>21771991>replying to tripfagskill yourself in front of your family or go back to plebbit
>>21771932Not really, they drank passum which was sweet raisin wine made with honey. But this might have been added post fermentation
>>21771921And how will you get access to pineapples? They are native to south america and so hard to cultivated that they only stopped being for the ultra-weathy in the 9th century.
>>21772658Don't act like 80% of people on 4chan don't use reddit as well.
>>21769974based trole got all the newfags baited
>>21769970hamburger.
>>21773646The oldest description I could find of a hamburger was Roman
>>21773675damn, you're right.
>>21773675>hur dur I believe without any evidence that old times people like the Romans put grilled meat, cheese, and bread together. Every fully indoctrinated historian knows that the Duke of Hamburg invented grilling meats and cheese within a bun.
>>21769970Tomato
fairy floss.I would get the legions hooked good and proper then declare myself the fairy emperor.
>>21771859No they weren't. Apicius already mentioned pasta dishes.
>>21769970coffeewould have built more roads.
>>21774093Now I kinda want to go back to give the Germanics coffee to see what happens.
>>21769970Methamphetamine
>>21773675>The oldest description I could find of a hamburger was RomanChinese hamburgers or "Rou Jia Mo" date back to 200 BC but they're not exactly burgers, more like meat sandwiches. But the Egyptians picked up food with flatbread and so did probably ancient Indians and Arabs...China has the oldest continuous meat sandwich recipe, maybe.
>>21769970goy slop, the consequence would be glorious, we would be living in paradise right now.
>>21773685If you want to be particular then a burger would have to be ground meat specifically which probably does narrow it considerably since that's a time investment.
>>21774257they would have instantly died from diabeetus
>>21774093Damn during the peak of the Empire, being stationed in Spain or Africa must've been a pretty ok experience, aside from the occasional bandit incursions.
>>21774506Greece or Anatolia would have been the best places to be stationed back then, Spain and Africa being close seconds, by far the worst province to be in would have been Roman Britain. Even Germania is preferable to that miserable wet backwater.
>>21774538Greece still faced some danger from tribes up the danube river. Imo the best place to be stationed in the Roman Empire was probably ironically Carthage.
>>21774538>Roman Britainewww beer drinkers
>>21774068fruity tosser
romans would love mash with gravy
>>21769970Tomato so I can make pizza.They will LOVE it.
Cream of sumyungal
Fried Chicken. I would need to figure out how to extract MSG from seaweed
>>21769970pizza
Raw herring with raw diced onionsGouda on tiger breadMight inspire them to become a proper naval superpower
>>21777676If anything it's gonna motivate them to burn every single fucking ship they see.
>>21769970Protein Powder babyYou just know for a fact none of the soldiers are getting enough protein to realise their deserved gains LET'S GET THE LEGION SWOLE
Everyone knows Roman men enjoyed a nice big panis cum escam
>>21777733Oh yeah motherfvckers, let's get on the gain train. Choo! choo!! Next stop? Mount olympus.
>>21777740Shoo jew, get out the wayGet out the way jew, get out the way.
>>21777712Your moon goddess Allah is not here to save you, pajeet
>>21769974You talk like a fag and sound like one too
Fugu. And I would almost but not quite teach them how to do it properly. With any luck, I'll impress enough nobility to make it catch on, then wipe out the empire before any of this bullshit got started. Praise Boudicca.
>>21769970>What Modern FoodCharcoal Filtration. Or distillation, get battlefield casualty deaths down with a proper anti-septic.
>>21769970I'm starting a classic American burger joint. You said I get ingredients right? Well that means I have potatoes, tomatoes, and apparently the ability to just get beef and cheese all the time.Not because I particularly want to run a burger place. I'm just here to introduce potatoes (and tomatoes while I'm at it) and watch what food security does to Europe if it arrives so far ahead of schedule.>>21774562You know, as long as the Vandals and Alans don't show up and crucify your entire bloodline for not being Christian enough.
>>21774120The reason why I think it was the oldest, most burger-like sandwich is that it was a minced meat patty, rolled in pine nuts, and pressed onto a grill with a seasoned separated bunThe bun was a round roll, cut in half, and dunked in a mix of honey, vinegar and/or wine, and garum all mixed togetherThis was also grilled, before assembling the sandwichThese were served to travelers and soldiers around 100-150BC, but probably before then, tooFound the inscription on a photo of a jar used for what I assumed to be proto-ketchupI went down a weird ketchup rabbit hole, like, 10 years ago
>>21777733Roman legionaires spent a lot of money on food. There was a trade network supplying military forts with all manner of foodstuffs from across the empire. The soldiers could afford to supplement their rations, because they were rather well paid. Additionally perishable goods like fresh meat, milk and eggs would have been produced on site or in villages nearby. There would also have been a steady stream of meat from work animals, of which the military always needed many of, that had to be put down, landing in the cook pots.
>>21769970high sugar foods. thats crack for anyone inthat era. so a candy store.
Modern day candy. As it was, the pharaohs were hooked on honeyed bread and dates and were obese diabetics. If caesar and his legions had a hoard of chocolate candies then they wouldn't need weapons.
I want to introduce citrus fruits that are highly suited to the Mediterranean coast
>>21774506Probably the best women to Romanize if you get what I mean.
Monster Energy Zero Ultra
maize, empire would probably never fall
An empire built on sneed oils wasn't meant to last.
>>21780100olive is a fruit oil
>>21780142They have seeds.
A truck full of Twinkies in exchange for the seeds of their birth control plants.
Fleshlight full of macaroons
>>21780084Oh, I do get what you mean.
>>21769970The main problem with the Romans was that the outer regions were largely bled to feed the provinces for centuries, and even when reforms happened, they hardly helped the people living there.I'd say a solid new world staple like Potatoes would benefit the Germanic regions as they are calorie dense and easy to grow.Either that or distillation, kickstart the world by a few hundred years.
whipped creamwould blow their mind enough but not so much theyd murder me for being a wizard
>>21769970would have had shit like chilli pepper and paprika? you could teach them to make thai curry or bbq chicken.coffee is from ethiopia, you could do pourovers or cold brew.. or find a roman engineer and come up with steam power 2000 years early to make espresso
>>21779713Roman soldiers typically had longer lifespans than the average Roman citizen because of how much money they made
>>21779713>Roman legionaires spent a lot of money on food.And because they were fucking each other they might have had a lot of disposable income without having to support a wife and children.
