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Pompeian Street-Life. The bustling streets of Pompeii today, teeming with tour groups, are not unlike the streets of the ancient city. Deep cuts in Via Consolare's paving stones mark where the metal-rimmed wooden wheels of carts and carriages once transported people and their wares. Overflow from public and private fountains may have flooded the road. A Pompeian striding down the sidewalk of Regio VI, Insula 1 from the Herculaneum Gate passed an inn, bars, a pair of lavish houses, and more bars. What was the experience of this common Pompeian? Ancient Pompeii was a city not only for the wealthy home-owner who tiptoed across mosaic floors and ate peppered fishes, but also for the freedman who lived in his small shop and bought his food daily.

Pompeian Fast Food. The sight of the bar front is a characteristic one for tourists in Pompeii. But what is a bar? Today we have snack bars, salad bars, tapas bars, and so on. All have a counter where food or drink is sold to small informal groups. In ancient Pompeii, L-shaped counters are found in small properties all along the main roads. The frequency of these counters suggests that food, at least for the middle and lower classes, could have been readily bought at these many bars throughout the city.

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