Thanks, Jim. The thermopoliums might have offered a Jerboamac as a Saturnalia speciality. I’m fooling around and joking there.
What I do know is that as of my recent last Pompeii visit, when I called this or a very similar establishment a “thermopolium,” the guide said that she couldn’t use that archeologically technical term because of a dispute raging at that moment in the literature that she declined to explain. It was still a thermopolium to me.
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