No, they didn’t conceive of the shape of cheeseburgers, but made all the ingredients their mainstay military rations, came out as a greasy, vinegar tasting meaty oaty meal slop. They couldn’t solidify it. They even came close with making cheese, but didn’t quite make it. Roman legions would of loved cheeseburgers, it is the true evidence that the US is the inheritors of Rome.
Obviously, they liked steaks and salads too. People get misconceptions about what the ancients ate based off of what the contrive to be natural, because their contact with nature involves walking around the vegetable isle. It wasn’t the case, our food was always varied but unenlightened the last few million years… why we are omnivores, and why hunter gathers go over such a wide area.
They tried the “paleo” diet here during colonial times, and everyone got scurvy during the wintertime. Indians ate no damn paleo-diet, whites did, because it was all they could hunt and farm. A lot of children died before spring. We have always had a variety of ways to process and preserve foods. We never really obeyed a food pyrimid in antiquity, was always lopsided and off balanced, seasonal at best for collecting foodstuff. I can tell you what hillside for this or that herb, but most meals didn’t incorporate that, our culinary experience really sucked from the Paleolithic to the late medieval.
Your tradition, of clever smart enlightened fools, begins in Roman times too. It was a way for the upper classes to entertain and differentiate themselves from the poor, with disturbingly large buffets, requiring them to puke on a regular basis to experience yet more clever dishes. Got so bad, Marcus Gabius Apicius committed suicide after spending the bulk of his stupid money on collecting foods from all over the world, preferring not to cut back on his banquets with friends! Your stupid absurd elitist supermarket antics are a direct inheritance of his traditions, in fact… you wouldn’t have such compulsions if it wasn’t for him laying the groundwork for such absurdities. You need every absurd foodstuff, preserved in absurd ways, falsely claiming it is for health… yet also asserting all your smart, intelligent, clever elite friends know to do this too (ugghhhh) and you eat absurdities nobodies ancestors had the full access to, at quantities and qualities they never saw… and you have the fucking nerve to call it Paleo! Might as well call freeze dried NASA approved space icecreme Paleo too.
You don’t need this for health, you need it for the perpetuation of your silly mental disorder, in appearing hip and elitist, associating with the cleverest fads. It isn’t clever. Wonder why you keep getting the fatmrts and irritability down there. You and your friends IQs likely aren’t any higher than similarly paid people who don’t follow your ideology and can give a fuck about fad diets. It is all in your head.