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Jean Staffen - 03 Mar 2004 00:02 GMT

Veni, vidi, veggie...
By Tom Leonard, Media Editor
(Filed: 02/03/2004)

Roman gladiators were overweight vegetarians who lived on barley and beans,
according to a scientific study of the largest gladiator graveyard
discovered.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2004/03/02/wglad02.xml&sShe
et=/news/2004/03/02/ixworld.html

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LCer09 - 03 Mar 2004 02:25 GMT

>Roman gladiators were overweight vegetarians who lived on barley and beans,
>according to a scientific study of the largest gladiator graveyard
>discovered.

Barley? I thought the Roman grain staple was corn. Hmm...
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Bear - 03 Mar 2004 03:02 GMT

Corn is a new world plant. They didn't have it in Rome. I think corn was
another word for barley. You know like John Barleycorn.

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> >Roman gladiators were overweight vegetarians who lived on barley and beans,
> >according to a scientific study of the largest gladiator graveyard
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revek - 03 Mar 2004 03:20 GMT

Bear burbled across the ether:

>>> Roman gladiators were overweight vegetarians who lived on barley
>>> and beans, according to a scientific study of the largest gladiator
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> Corn is a new world plant. They didn't have it in Rome. I think corn
> was another word for barley. You know like John Barleycorn.

"Corn" is one of those English words that means 'staple grain'-- and
depending on where and what time you live, that could be any of the
various local grains. It's only in the last 100 years or so that corn
has increasingly come to be associated with maize and only maize. You
can see this by searching a copy of the King James bible for the word
corn, or any of the various books/articles/laws on English agriculture
or anything on the subject of the Irish potato famine (the corn laws)
written before this century, -- I seriously doubt that any of the
peoples in the bible ate 'corn' as we Americans know it.

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curious - 03 Mar 2004 06:04 GMT

You
can see this by searching a copy of the King James bible for the word
corn, or any of the various books/articles/laws on English agriculture
or anything on the subject of the Irish potato famine (the corn laws)
written before this century, -- I seriously doubt that any of the
peoples in the bible ate 'corn' as we Americans know it.

True.

My DH pointed out that in the Bible, the Israelites were commanded to give the "best" to the Lord. They were to offer the fat. Isn't that interesting?

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Witchy Way - 03 Mar 2004 07:20 GMT

<<Roman gladiators were overweight vegetarians who lived on barley and
beans, according to a scientific study of the largest gladiator
graveyard discovered.>>

thank you for posting this! i love this kind of stuff! very interesting
that they were fat & didnt wear sandals.

i just saw a piece, from some tv show while i was flipping channels,
that featured plastic high heel shoes to be worn to the "oscars" by
vegetarian stars.

**When I was young we used to go 'skinny dipping'. Now I just 'chunky
dunk'.

witchy

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jmk - 03 Mar 2004 13:09 GMT

>>Roman gladiators were overweight vegetarians who lived on barley and beans,
>>according to a scientific study of the largest gladiator graveyard
>>discovered.
>
> Barley? I thought the Roman grain staple was corn. Hmm...

??? Isn't corn an New World grain?

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Doug Freyburger - 03 Mar 2004 21:23 GMT

> Veni, vidi, veggie...
> By Tom Leonard, Media Editor
[quoted text clipped - 3 lines]
> according to a scientific study of the largest gladiator graveyard
> discovered.

High carb, medium protein, low fat as a means to fatten up. Who'd thunk.
Unless you look in the mall today vs in the mall before the high carb,
medium protein, low fat craves that is now finally dying.

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