Yahoo! News: "Elizabethan theater-goers chomped on an exotic array of foods while enjoying the latest plays of the day, new evidence found at the sites of Shakespearean playhouses in London suggests.
Archaeologists say choice Tudor snacks included oysters by the cartload, crab and other shellfish like mussels, whelks and periwinkles."
3 comments:
This is very interesting. What we like to eat at movie theaters, as a snack mind you, is buttered-down popcorn with salt on top. Wash that down with an ice cold sugary drink, and you're off to the races. Sounds healthy, mmmmmmm. But in other cultures, they snack on seafood and other more natural substitutes such as dried fruit. I guess it's a little eye-opening to see that our culture just doesn't want to snack on healthier things, because they don't taste...as processed? I also get a thought that American theater goers might be a bit confused if someone whipped out a bucket of oysters and started chowing down in the middle of a theater. Just some food for though...
This is just awesome. I love oysters and if I could sit and watch theatre while eating oysters, I would be doing two of my favorite things at the same time.
I do find it very interesting that then the theatre-goers would sit and eat food but in todays time no food should be eaten in the theatre but can be when we go to the movies. Things are just so different. Also, I always have been interested in archeology and it is so hard to believe that they can now find out what kind of food was eaten when going to the theatre.
I think it's fascinating how the social connotation of a type of food has changed so much over the years. Oysters aren't nearly as commonplace today and certainly aren't eaten by everybody, especially in theaters. Back then, on the other hand, oysters were eaten by the bucketload by all of the poorer classes in theaters. I think that this is a very intriguing aspect of the theatrical experience as it existed hundreds of years ago. I wonder this aspect will change again in the future. Maybe no one will eat popcorn and candy at movies anymore.
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