[mav88]

>From a passage of Virgil’s Aeneid, (book VII, v.128 sgg.) it is possible to understand the position of fruits and other products of the fields, on sacrificial breads that function as “tables”. This reminds us of the moment in which the Trojan heroes who had finished their meal of fruits, chose to eat the bread which they had used as containers (tables). This showed the realisation of the Virgilian Epos, where a prophecy had stated that the Trojans would find a new homeland when they “arrived on unknown beaches, finished all the food,” and their hunger made them “devour also the tables”.

Once upon a time, I did the Aeneid in the original and we came across this meaning of the word 'mensa' as a bread base which was weird because it was the very first Latin word we had all learned: table. And then immediately afterwards in the text one of the warriors makes the joke that they're so hungry they're eating their tables as well. It still blows my mind that I could understand a pun written thousands of years ago and find it amusing.

[jessehattabaugh]

> the position of fruits and other products of the fields, on sacrificial breads

So you're saying pineapple is in fact a pizza topping!

[dangerboysteve]

well, that's just crazy talk.

[datavirtue]

It's not a pizza. Period.

[slim]

tomato is a fruit

[jalk]

Tomatoes comes from South America so couldn’t have been on the Pompeii pizza

[karaterobot]

I think they were saying that the argument "fruit doesn't belong on pizza, thus pineapples don't belong on pizza" is invalid because most people agree that tomatoes go on pizza, and tomatoes are biologically fruits.

[corvuscorvid]

...and ketchup is a jam

[bee_rider]

If we are to accept the madness of treating tomato as a fruit culinarily (although, your comment makes a strong argument for not doing so), would it be a jam, jelly, or…?

[lo_zamoyski]

How many jams, jellies, marmalades, or confitures do you know of that contain vinegar, savory spices, and salt? In a recipe calling for jam, would you replace it with ketchup?

[boulos]

There are several chutneys that include vinegar. They aren't in the same category as you listed, but the parent included an ellipsis, which I'll include chutney under.

[fsckboy]

>In a recipe calling for jam, would you replace it with ketchup?

if the recipe was for French fries and jam: yes.

[yeahwhatever10]

Ketchup is my jam.

[h2odragon]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trencher_(tableware)

[twoodfin]

This reminds me of modern Ethiopian dining with injera.