Take-out restaurants were a thing in Ancient Rome.
The Roman diet
Ancient Romans ate meat, fish, vegetables, eggs, cheese, grains (also as bread) and legumes.
Meat included animals like dormice (an expensive delicacy), hare, snails and boar. Smaller birds like thrushes were eaten as well as chickens and pheasants. Beef was not popular with the Romans and any farmed meat was a luxury, game was much more common. Meat was usually boiled or fried – ovens were rare.
A type of clam called telline that is still popular in Italy today was a common part of a rich seafood mix that included oysters (often farmed), octopus and most sea fish.
