If you were poor, you ate mostly just the Mediterranean Triad, with vegetables like lentils and cucumbers and lettuce, fruit like apples and figs, nuts, and sometimes cheese and eggs.
Food
they ate.....figs and cheesee and eggs
they ate bread and wine
The poor in Rome lived mainly on bread and other cereal based meals.
bread water soup if lucky some lamb
butterfly wings, sea urchins. Whatever man
fruit
worm and boogers
crackers
Thepercentage of what roman citizens where poor by the laws of the rights dat da enemys wouldn't get which the Romans had such as Freedom
The people of Pompeii were Romans, so they ate Roman food. The poor could only afford to eat bread and other grain-based foods. Rich people ate cranes, doves, duck, fig-peckers, peacocks and ostriches
through their mouth, then down the throat