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welcome to the cocky ride home for friday November 19th, 2021. I'm Jackson Bird. Today, a brief

history of takeout and delivery, plus a what we do in the shadows actor's previous career as an award-winning

yo-yower and the abomination that is Ranch Nog.

Here are some of the cool things from the news today.

While delivery dining is undergoing some massive changes right now,

started by the growth of apps like Grubhub and Uber Eats and bolstered by shifts caused by

the pandemic, we all know that delivery is nothing new. Getting food delivered or picking it up to

take home is a pretty old concept. But turns out it might be much older than you think. In an excerpt

from his new book, The Next Supper, The End of

Restaurants as We Knew them and What Comes After, Food Reporter Corey Mince writes

that we can trace takeout dining at least as far back as ancient Rome and their thermopolia.

A thermopylaum literally meant a place where something hot is sold, and it was kind of a long

counter that could keep food warm and sell it quickly and ready-made to customers.

Imagine a buffet-style bar, but outside and on its own.

As Mince explains, quote, back then, not everyone had a kitchen in their home.

At Thermopyla, Romans could grab a quick bite of meat and cheese, spiced wine, lentils, fish, or nuts with a dash of garum, the liquid extract of fermented fish, similar to the fish sauce essential to Southeast Asian cooking, a condiment as ubiquitous to the ancient Roman as ketchup is to the modern American. These takeout spots weren't rare. In the ruins of Pompeii,

buried by the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in AD 79, more than 80 thermopylaum counters have

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