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Fruit, possibly. After the Restoration, Oranges were a popular item in theatres. Perhaps they hearkened back to an earlier practise of eating fruit.

When the foundations of the Rose Theatre were discovered, the floor was covered with hazelnut shells, and at first it was thought that the audience ate hazelnuts. However, further research suggests that the nut shells were used to mix with cement to make a concrete floor. They were probably able to get the shells for nothing or next to nothing, since there was a soap plant nearby which used hazelnut oil for the soap and had piles of useless shells.

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