The Romans loved to chat, enjoy themselves, and eat. The solution? A party or a banquet, where they could do all three at the same time. The meals could be as little as 3 courses, or as many as 10 courses. The first course was like an appetizer- guests munched on mice, olives, salad, snails, oysters, and peahens' eggs. The second course of more solid food- people chomped down meat, fish, and stuffed doormice. The third course was the main course- party-ers chewed up ostrich, flamingo, peacock, and wild boar. The fourth and (perhaps) last meal worked as desert- everyone delicately ate nuts, fruits, stuffed dates and honey cakes.
While the guests dined, acrobats, dancers, and jugglers entertained them. Some very rich Romans had so much fun that they didn't want to leave, and wanted to eat more but they were full, so they vomited everything they had just swallowed into their stomach out again.
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